• Help build a brighter future with one of Victoria's leading not-for-profits.
• Full-Time - Hybrid Role (possible Part-Time opportunity for suitable candidates)
• Competitive Salary + Tax reducing Salary Packaging ($140,000 per annum circa)

About St Vincent de Paul Society

We are the St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria or, more fondly, Vinnies Victoria. For more than 170 years we have been providing practical and compassionate support to people across Victoria whose daily struggles can include putting food on the table, paying essential utilities and ensuring their children remain at school to obtain an education.

About the Role

We are seeking a Strategic Projects and Reporting Manager to play a critical role in ensuring that our efforts are strategically aligned, impactful, and communicated effectively both internally and externally. Managing a team of technical specialists, you will lead the delivery of the organisation’s enterprise project management office, and lead the uplift of our reporting and planning frameworks and processes.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning Support

• Coordinate the development of corporate business plans aligned with the Group Strategic Plan.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to design strategies reflecting the organisation's mission and long-term objectives.
• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of data-driven decision-making processes.

Enterprise Project Management

• Lead and manage a hybrid Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), advising the executive on project investment and progress.

• Ensure delivery of strategic projects in accordance with relevant legislation and best practices.

Reporting and Coordination

• Develop reports on the organisation’s activity and impact
• Coordinate data gathering and insights generation across the organisation for timely and accurate reporting.

Analytics and Insights

• Lead staff to develop robust analytics capabilities to monitor progress towards strategic goals.
• Translate data-driven insights into actionable recommendations for the executive team.

Advocacy

• Support the design and implementation of an evidence-based Strategic Advocacy Plans.
• Strengthen our external relationships, partnerships, and advocacy efforts.

Key Requirements:

• Proven skills in project management, planning and project reporting
• Demonstrated experience developing and coordinating plans and board level reports
• Experience in strategic plan design, review and reporting

• Demonstrated engagement, influence, facilitation and communication skills Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.Collaborative team player with a proactive approach.
• Ability to implement and embed frameworks across an organisation
• High level of integrity and professionalism.

Why work for us? We offer: 

• Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
• We make an incredible difference in the lives of over 300,000 people every year.
• We believe in families, so we like to provide a family-friendly environment in which to work.
• We offer a place where you know you are contributing to a firm committed to helping others. We are passionate about #Social Justice.
• We are complex in our design which always makes work interesting.

Where good happens #Goodworks

If you are passionate about driving strategic initiatives and making a positive impact, we would love to hear from you.

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Please submit your resume and cover letter outlining your relevant experience and why you are the ideal candidate for this role.

In our hiring process, we value diverse perspectives and recognise that relevant experience or qualifications are not always indicative of potential. We encourage individuals with varying backgrounds and skillsets to apply, as we believe in providing opportunities for growth and development regardless of past experiences or formal qualifications.

Please click here a copy of the Position Description. 

Please don’t delay in submitting your application as applications will be reviewed upon submission.

Please note that prior to any commencement to employment, pre-employment checks must be completed. This will include reference checking, a national criminal history and right to work check, a working with children check, and some roles require a psychometric assessment.

St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria is proactive in supporting child safety.

We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions.