Job Summary
- $90,000 - $99,999 per annum + remote travel allowance, 6 weeks paid annual leave
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 16th Jun 2022
- Sydney > Darlinghurst
Are you an experienced operations manager in the travel, outdoor education, tourism or events space? Do you have a history of leading a team to deliver dozens of programs to a very high standard? Do you enjoy managing staff and processes to ensure successful delivery of and improvements to programs? Are you ready for your next long-term role?
Red Earth is growing quickly, and we are looking for a driven Head of Region who is passionate about helping to lead a team that connects young people to the Indigenous homelands across the Top End. This is an amazing chance for someone to lead the delivery of our programs across Arnhem Land and Top End region, working at the cross-roads of tourism and the Indigenous space. This role will be ideally primarily Sydney based but with opportunity to travel to our beautiful partner regions across in the Top End.
We are a small social enterprise with 21 employees passionate about connecting groups of high school students to remote Indigenous Australia. We do this by building immersion programs, ten-day trips into remote Indigenous communities and homelands where small groups learn from Elders, visit cultural sites, and volunteer on a service project in the community.
You will be charged with leading the delivery of all our programs in the Top End. In practice, this will mean managing the Travel Operations Managers and Field Operations Managers responsible for planning, bookings and making the immersions successful on the ground. You will be ideally based in our Sydney office with regular travel to our Top End partner homelands.
You will have broad autonomy over delivery, budgeting, staffing and execution and will be responsible for the quality of programs delivered in the Top End.
Delivery: Helping to refine and execute processes to deliver excellent programs in the Top End.
Staffing: Managing and hiring full-time, part-time staff and casual staff
Client Relationships: Working alongside our Business Development team for major clients
Budgets: Directly involved in long-term strategy and financial viability
A position description is attached.