Organisation : Moreland Energy Foundation Ltd
Location : New South Wales (6 O’Connell Street Sydney)
Work type : Full-time
Sector : Conservation & Environment
Salary type : Annual Package
Salary : $79,422
Application closing date : 7 Jan, 2019
About the organisation
About the role
This is an exciting time to join MEFL; we are experiencing significant growth, and to meet our newly built strategic plan we are expanding our teams with 8 new roles. Our focus is to continue building a consistently high performing, skilled and flexible team whilst delivering the high quality work that we have become nationally recognised for.
One of the new roles is an opportunity for a Fulltime Program Leader to join our Zero Carbon Services team to lead the Positive Charge program in New South Wales. The Positive Charge program provides trustworthy, low cost and up-to-date energy saving advice, services and products to households, businesses, schools and community groups across Victoria and more recently in New South Wales, under the Our Energy Future brand.
Reporting to the Manager, Zero Carbon Services, this role will work with subscribing councils to deliver energy saving and renewable energy services to their communities, manage day-to-day supplier relationships, and also work alongside the Manager, Zero Carbon Services on business development opportunities in New South Wales.
This role will also work closely with the Program Leader – New South Wales to ensure alignment with programs and to leverage existing relationships. Working collaboratively alongside Zero Carbon Services Team and other teams to deliver energy services to our subscribing New South Wales Councils you will deploy your business development, stakeholder engagement and project management skills, facilitating the building of our client base in New South Wales.
Some of the key challenges and complexities of this role include working across several customers with competing demands requested by multiple independent team leaders with urgent deadlines.
Your Competencies:
• Resilient and enjoys collaboratively working within a small, entrepreneurial environment that is purpose-led, results-driven and community oriented.
• Ability to build and maintain strategic working relationships and partnerships with diverse stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience in business development and project management including in ability to deliver a program on time and on budget, and to balance and respond to competing priorities.
• A high-level of written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in creative thinking and problem solving in team and as an individual.
Your Knowledge:
• General knowledge of the renewable energy sectors, including relevant regulatory, policy frameworks and future opportunities
• Understanding of sustainability issues and climate change
• Project Management Ethos
Your Experience:
• Demonstrated experience (5 years +) in leading and developing teams
• Demonstrated experience (5 years +) in managing and delivering projects to a high standard.
• Demonstrated experience (5 years +) in developing and managing budgets and deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience(5 years +) in Solar BD, Project Management, and/or Environmental Consultancy
• Managing diverse stakeholders – internal and external, all levels of government, industry and others.
Your Qualifications:
• Relevant related tertiary degree.
And now that you’ve identified whether this is the next gig in your career path or not, here’s the most important piece to support your competencies, knowledge, experience and qualifications …
Our Work Culture at MEFL:
• We are all driven by our vision of an equitable zero carbon society
• We value the opportunities we have to work on innovative programs that help people and climate
• We are a highly capable, resilient, flexible, diverse and proud team who value everyone’s wellbeing
• We live by our values of innovation, honesty, respect, resilience, and teamwork.
• We work collaboratively across diverse knowledge hubs to share and support each other and the organization
• We enjoy very generous paid leave options for time-out in our Annual Leave, Personal Leave, Wellbeing Leave, Study Leave and TOIL offerings, as well as paid Parental Leave and Dental/Medical Appointment Leave.
• We support the stresses that come with working and living in the 21st century via a Health & Wellbeing Program which includes a 24 hour Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• We value the financial incentives on offer for sustainable commuting to work practices
• We offer a salary packaging service to take advantage of the additional financial benefits available as employees of a Not-For-Profit organisation
• Because we are surrounded by people that see us, elevate us, and support us, we feel like anything is possible!
Your Salary:
This is a Fulltime Level 4 role on the MEFL Enterprise Agreement 2018 offering an Annual Salary of $79,422.00 Plus Super.
To apply for this role please send your CV and a Cover Letter addressing the Key Challenges and Complexities of the role and how your Competencies and Knowledge are suited to this role.
How to apply
Applications not allowed for this job listing.
Please quote in application: Program Leader, ZCS NSW via Pro Bono Australia.
Sector: #Conservation_and_Environment