Business Operations Co-Ordinator

• Global environmental sustainability organisation
• Exciting multi-faceted role at South Melbourne head office
• Small and Passionate team

Earthwatch is an international environmental charity. We bring individuals from all walks of life together with world-class scientists to work for the good of the planet. The Earthwatch community continues to grow rapidly; with participation from members of the general public we call "citizen scientists," to corporate employees, to educators and students. All bring their knowledge, passion, and experience to support our work, improve scientific understanding, and inspire change across all touch-points in their lives.

There is an exciting full time opportunity to have a career with purpose assisting the CEO to further develop the important mission of global environmental sustainability from the Australian head office.

The Opportunity

As this is a small office you should never get bored as there is always a new task to attend to or solution to provide. One day you may be greeting people as they come for meetings and the next you may be sitting on the Finance and Risk committee. But some of the more important aspects of this role are being able to:

• Take control of all aspects of the office administration and co-ordination
• Exercise your financial acumen when liaising with the external accountants
• Co-ordinate the HR policies and process e.g. admin, recruitment, WorkCover etc.
• Ensure all volunteers and interns are on-boarded and engaged
• Be part of a continuous improvement culture

The Person

It goes without saying that your passion for environmental sustainability and science will be highly regarded. You would also have had a reasonable amount of experience managing a small office environment before. Ideally you’ve worked in the Not for Profit sector, but the right mind set, maturity and willingness to learn will also be well regarded. Some other attributes that will be very important are:

• Ability to work in a small team as well as be self-motivated and show initiative.
• Be highly organised and be able to administrate board meetings
• Have well developed IT knowledge and skills (MS Office)
• Be hands on and work as required (answer phones, greet people)
• The maturity to manage private and confidential information

The Benefits

The most important benefit is being able to get up every day and know that the work you do is important and matters. There is nothing like feeling good about your job to get you going in the morning. But beyond that there are wonderful aspects to this role:

• A strong team bond with a shared environmental passion.
• Entirely rewarding work
• A workplace that believes in work/life/holistic/people centric balance
• Exposure to and potential to join expeditions
• Access to scientists
• A competitive salary commensurate with experience