Dog and Bone is an ethical business and certified B Corp! We're looking for a senior technical consultant to work as a key player in our consulting team providing high level technical analysis and IT strategy development for our, mostly NFP, clients.

Tenure: Full or Part-Time (hours negotiable). This position offers flexible working arrangements, part-time hours and/or job-sharing opportunities.

About us

Dog and Bone is an ethical and independent technology advisory, making technology work for organisations that improve the world. We're inspired by organisations who exist to make the world better. Their impact is why we exist. While our expertise is in technology, we work to enable the people who're working hard to improve the world at our clients’ organisations.

Technology is hard to navigate, and we don’t think it should be that way. Our clients can expect clarity, honesty, and the right solution to achieve their goals.

We are purposeful about who we work with, and specialise in NFP, Government and social enterprises.

Fundamentally, we help our clients invest more time, money and focus into their core mission of improving the world.

Our values

Our clients value our independent advice. We don’t sell any of the services we consult on, are not tied to any vendors and don’t take any incentives or kickbacks.

Dog and Bone’s values are core to how the organisation is shaped internally and how we deliver our services:

• Ethical & Independent
• Down to Earth
• Empowering
• Collaborative & Supportive

We’re committed to a positive, flexible and family-friendly workplace and dedicated to progressive business practices. We pride ourselves on the diversity of our staff and offer flexible working arrangements as part of our commitment to finding a healthy work/life balance. We deliver high-quality outcomes to our clients with a down to earth and supportive approach to working together and with our clients.

We offer our staff

• Five weeks leave, additional paid parental leave + your birthday off!
• A hybrid working environment, offering a balance of office and remote working
• Located in trendy Northcote, close to great cafes, shops and public transport
• Pool table room, Street Fighter machine, yoga and massage
• Espresso on tap and weekly team lunches

We Audit our Ethics

We take ethics seriously, that's why we're B Corp Certified [link removed] ensuring we uphold high standards. We verified our ethics by becoming a B Corp through rigorous auditing of our governance, treatment of staff, customers, environment and the community.

About the Role

Reporting to the General Manager, the position Senior Technical Consultant will see you develop and present technology solutions for our clients, mostly NFP, that leverage common, cost effective and typically cloud based technologies. It will include performing high-level technical reviews, IT strategy development, business requirements development, high-level technical solution designs and analysis, report writing and conduct presentations. This role includes significant client liaison, stakeholder engagement, meeting with clients and potential workshop facilitation.

Package: $90-100k p.a. pro-rata plus Super + 5 Weeks leave

About you

We are looking for a skilled and experienced person with drive and commitment, who wants a rewarding career in IT consulting, and has the potential to expand their role with the growth of our business. You may have come from an existing IT consultancy role or be considering moving from IT Management or a Managed Service Provider to a consulting role. You have high-level technical skills and a substantial background in applying technology to deliver business outcomes. You value clarity of thought, communication, and process, and focus on outcomes. You demonstrate advanced organisational and communications skills to ensure appropriate delivery in a timely and succinct manner.

Your background will include working knowledge and understanding of Business Applications, ICT Infrastructure, Cloud Architecture, Security, and IT Governance Framework.

You will be an integral part of the IT consulting team, responsible for the generation and delivery of projects to our client base, and for contributing technical and strategic IT knowledge to other teams within Dog and Bone.

Key Responsibilities

• Consult with clients and undertake business requirements capture, review and development.
• Undertake gap analysis and review of clients’ existing systems and infrastructure, and of proposed solutions.
• Undertake solutions design, specification and evaluation.
• Design desired future IT state, IT roadmaps and identify work required to get from current to desired future state.
• Conduct RFP processes, including developing RFP documentation, MSP vendor briefings and liaison, prepare report and recommendations, and present to client.
• Coordinate and manage projects (e.g., IT infrastructure and service implementations, assist with technical aspects of WAN implementations).
• Present solutions and recommendations to clients in a highly professional written report format and in person presentations to key stakeholders

Key Selection Criteria

• Demonstrated capability in IT strategy and technical solution design
• Understand a broad range of technologies and IT services that support an organisation’s strategies and workforce, and how they work together to deliver value to an organisation
• Excellent written communication skills in report writing and documentation
• Excellent verbal communication skills and ability to present to small groups of stakeholders
• Experience working with and a passion for supporting the NFP sector
• At least 5 years’ experience working in IT in the Australian corporate or not-for-profit environment
• Relevant tertiary qualifications and professional learning and development.

Also highly regarded:

• Experience in procurement processes for technology solutions or IT managed service providers
• Demonstrated capability with any of the following: IT project management, technology service tendering (RFP processes), and contract and service delivery evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience with at several of the following: infrastructure delivery (on-premises, co-lo, virtualisation, IaaS), Microsoft cloud offerings, networking (MPLS and SD-WAN), desktop and application delivery, mobile computing, information management, information security, and strategies for transitioning from on-premises to cloud computing services.

Dog and Bone is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.