About Future Group

Future Group is not your traditional financial services company – we're a collective of super funds and services committed to changing our planet now for a better tomorrow. When you join us, you’ll become part of a team united by a clear and important mission: to lead the investment movement by advocating and campaigning for a future worth retiring into.

We are looking for someone to join our purpose-led high-growth scaleup and to help us drive and embed project management practices across the business. We have a bold ambition to create a prosperous future free from climate change and inequality, and this role is critical to helping us execute on the programs of work needed to make this happen. As a Project Manager, you'll develop and implement project management strategies aligned with our organisational objectives, ensuring efficient and effective project execution. You'll be responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and monitoring of complex projects to meet goals and deadlines. Your north star: is to inspire innovation, collaboration, and excellence, ensuring each project aligns with our mission to create a future worth retiring into.

And the best bit, you’ll get to work with some fantastic work mates. Our team is a dynamic blend of passionate individuals committed to making a meaningful difference. Collaborative, supportive, and driven by a shared purpose, your teammates will inspire and challenge you to push the boundaries of what's possible. Together, we'll embark on a journey of growth and impact, forging a brighter tomorrow for generations to come.

We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse lived experience and identities, as the problems we face are complex, and the more diverse our team is, the better our solutions become. We are a team that is all about building a strong workplace culture, that's not only diverse, but competent. We are always learning and doing better together, and holding ourselves to account on our values.

Future Group values lived experience and we encourage applications from people with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, who have caring responsibilities, from culturally and racially marginalised groups, people with disability, people who experience ageism, LGBTQIA+ people, and people who experience social exclusion because of their social class.

If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please reach out to our talent team at [email protected]. We want to ensure our recruitment process is equitable for all, and we’ll happily make any reasonable adjustments where required.

You’ll love this job if:

• You find superannuation opaque and frustrating, if you had the chance to revolutionise the industry to be better for people, you would
• You love sharing your ideas and seeing what happens. At this scale-up, you're not just a small fish in a big pond. Your contributions have a direct influence on our impact and how we work
• You like to be kept on your toes - change is inevitable here. You like to tackle new challenges, and maybe even discover talents you never knew you had
• You enjoy working on complex projects across all areas of a business. Future Group is a fast-growing business operating in a constantly changing industry. We have multiple projects on the go at any given time, that could include re-setting our investment approach, transitioning key services to a new service provider, or transforming the way we work to deliver on our strategy.
• You can take the 30,000 foot view to define key objectives and steer the direction of a project, but are also happy to jump in and get involved in the detail.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Believes in Future Group’s mission and has a passion for moving Australia’s money out of fossil-fuels and into renewable energy
• Believes in using the power of money to build a sustainable and equitable world
• Has 3-4 years of experience in project management, and preferably some project experience in the superannuation sector or financial services more broadly.
• Is an excellent communicator with strong, multi-level stakeholder and relationship management expertise.
• Is a curious and voracious learner. Future Group is a workplace that continually challenges the status quo, constantly striving to find new and better ways of working.

Some nice-to-haves but are not essential are:

• Previous experience working on transformation or projects involving change management
• Some level of investment knowledge, including how investment vehicles like MIS work
• Experience in agile project management

As the Project Manager you will:

• Lead the development and implementation of project management strategies aligned with Future Group's organisational objectives, focusing on initiatives aimed at combating climate change and promoting equity.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members across the business, ensuring efficient and effective execution of projects.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and monitoring of complex projects, ensuring they meet established goals and deadlines.
• Facilitate clear and transparent communication between project teams, stakeholders, and senior management, collaborating to identify project requirements, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate regular project status meetings and provide updates to stakeholders on project progress and potential issues.
• Allocate resources effectively to ensure optimal utilisation and alignment with project priorities, identifying and mitigating resource constraints and bottlenecks to minimise project delays.
• Monitor project budgets and expenses to ensure adherence to approved financial constraints.
• Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimise their impact on project outcomes, leading problem-solving efforts and decision-making processes to address project issues and challenges promptly.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and best practices throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure project performance and effectiveness, conducting regular project reviews and evaluations to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement within the project management team, fostering innovation and learning.

Don’t tick all the boxes?- that’s okay, we like thinking outside the box anyway. We value skills, passion and who you are over what you’ve done or where you’ve studied. So if this job strikes a chord, we want to hear from you!

Why would you enjoy working at Future Group?

• A purpose-driven organisation - spend your days working on making this world a better place! The more we grow, the bigger the impact we are making on climate change and inequality
• A B Corp organisation that cares about how it behaves inside and out
• AFR’s Best Place to Work 2022 for the banking, superannuation and financial services sector
• Flexibility to fit work into your life (not your life around our work). School drop-offs/pick-ups and lunch-time gym sessions are a thing here
• The choice to work from home, from one of our co-working spaces, from anywhere within Australia or even from overseas (for a short period of time)
• The potential to own a piece of the Future Group pie with our unique Employee Share Ownership Program (with some fineprint)
• Fun company-wide events
• Progressive, people-focused policies and benefits including Menstrual and Menopausal Leave, Public holidays swaps, Cultural Leave, Mental Health Leave and Gender Affirmation Guidelines and Leave
• We offer employee network groups for people from diverse backgrounds: SuperGenders for cisgender women, trans men and women and non-binary folks; SuperGlobal for culturally diverse folks; and SuperPride for LGBTQIA+ folks. The groups are a safe, supportive space for people to share experiences and ideas
• An inclusive parental leave package, with 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• A laptop you can use to work remotely plus an allowance to make your working from home setup comfortable
• Other perks such as access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), the ability to purchase leave, novated leasing arrangements for electric vehicles, and a few more to find out

Applying for a Job at Future Group

• The application process will require you sharing your most recent CV and answering some questions through Ethical Jobs. We know job hunting can be time consuming, we don’t expect for you to spend more than 30 minutes on your application.
• You’ll hear from us about a week or two after the closing date. If your application is successful, you’ll be invited to a 20 minute phone chat with someone from our Talent team. If your application missed out this time, we won’t ghost you, we’ll let you know and we’ll provide you with some feedback which you can check-out if you want
• Following the good old telephone call, should your application be successful again, you will be invited to a couple of interviews by Zoom

Questions? Please reach out to our awesome Talent team at [email protected] using the subject line: Project Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs.