Senior Consultant

Tenure: Ongoing

Location: Melbourne

Reporting to: Principal

Start Date: ASAP

Purpose of the position:

This position is a Senior Consultant that would work across the business as a part of our AU & Pacific teams. The role would project lead different pieces of work in social enterprise business design on both building commercial acumen and social impact measurement. As a senior, the role involves management and leadership within the organisation.

Responsibilities/Role:

This role will work as part of the broader delivery team, being responsible to lead and manage projects. You will work directly with eco system players, business and not for profits to design out sustainable models that tackle social and environmental issues.

Among other things you will:

• Design, manage, lead and evaluate projects
• Lead and develop team members on projects
• Manage project financials
• Manage clients and key stakeholders
• Be responsible for BD targets
• Be able to facilitate and hold a room
• Business model using the business model canvas
• Be proficient in assessing where a business is at and how to move them forward, true to mission and greater financial viability.
• Write proposals and reports competently and succinctly

What your day to day will look like:

We are a small, but agile and ambitious organisation, we are fast paced and our team travel a lot both in Australia and the Pacific. It is a rare day that everyone is in the office together.

You will be working on and managing multiple projects at one time. You will be self-led and lead and inspire other team members. You will play different roles in those projects. You will facilitate rooms, write reports, construct financials, develop other team members & wash dishes.

Who you are:

You are ‘a do-er’ with entrepreneurial energy, you are passionate about business as a vehicle for doing good in the world, and you have great ability to asses and design business that does good and makes money. You are flexible, solution-driven and comfortable with chaos. You are equally comfortable in the board room and the village hut. Your skill set includes:

The Business Modelling

• You are proficient in business modelling using the business model canvas.
• You understand how a business works and what are the key components.
• You are able to see when a business model is broken or there are gaps and assumptions in the model.
• You’re able to redesign and help an organisation or business design the future.
• You’re able to read and construct accounts.
• You may have some experience with investment.
• You are proficient in assessing where a business is at and how to move them forward.
• You have an ability to think on your feet and redesign quickly.

Impact Measurement

• You can lead a room to define intent and the pathway of change.
• You are proficient in creating and using an enterprise’s impact framework, theory of change and program logic.
• You can build tools for outcomes measurement and validly measure change.

Room Facilitation

• You are able to inspire and hold a room of diverse people.
• You may have experience in facilitating cross culturally.
• You have frameworks and tools you’ve used to move people in their thinking.

Project Discipline

• You are able to manage multiple stakeholders in projects that span between 3months – 12 months long.
• You have experience in time management and understand the complexity of managing consulting projects.
• You are able to write, reporting back to clients on the outcomes and recommendations of work carried out
• You’re able to manage other team members on a given project.

You’re ready to commit to an organisation and help us build it.

Why you should work with us:

This TDi team is made up of a bunch of highly autonomous and talented individuals, who are committed to social and environmental justice, and who each have their own ‘superpowers’.

We like to work hard. We have held on to our start-up mentality of piloting unique solutions, learning, testing and pivoting fast. We are serious about the ‘why’ behind our work. We get together once a month over wine and cheese to discuss the deeper things behind our work.

At the moment we are working out of the co-working space WeWork on Collins Street, which offers a variety of perks including free Kombucha and Beer on tap daily.

One of our most recent initiatives which will show you more about the work that we do is YuMi, a joint partnership between Carnival Australia and DFAT’s InnovationXchange, which recently won a Shared Value Award for 2018. You can learn more about this program here.

A salary range of between $95K-$110K will  be offered, with an accompanying incentive scheme based on team performance.