Tenders and Grants Coordinator – First Aid and Mental Health Training

• Full time permanent role, can be based in Sydney or Brisbane
• Join the First Aid and Mental Health Training team and help grow our course delivery
• Work for the world’s largest humanitarian movement

About Red Cross

Australian Red Cross is part of the world’s largest humanitarian movement. We support and empower people and communities in times of vulnerability. We act for humanity.

The opportunity

Coordinate our end to end tendering and contract activities within First Aid and Mental Health Training.

You will monitor and track tender and contract status, work with key stakeholders to meet project deadlines and co-ordinate the admin and technical commercial aspects of the tendering and contract processes.

Underpinning your success will be your project coordination skills, strong attention to detail and your ability to build and maintain positive and productive working relationships with current and potential clients from initial contact through to course delivery.      

What you will bring

• Demonstrated experience in management of Contracts, Deeds or Tenders.
• Highly organised with the ability to plan and prioritise to deadlines.
• Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy.
• Advanced MS Office skills, in particular Word and Excel.
• Highly developed written and verbal communications skills.
• Proven ability to gain the co-operations and buy in of key stakeholders to achieve required results.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with existing and new clients and key stakeholders to proactively identify and develop business opportunities.

Our Covid-19 safe practices

It’s vital you review our Red Cross COVID-19 and pre-employment requirements here prior to applying.

Why work with us?

Work for purpose, know that the work you do enables Red Cross to support and empower people and communities in times of vulnerability.

You can access flexible working arrangements and generous salary packaging options that can increase your take home pay by paying certain expenses using pre-tax dollars up to $15,900 a year.

Red Cross respects, values and encourages diversity. We believe that diversity in our people enriches our organisation as well as the impact we have.

Further information

To find out more about this opportunity please refer to the position description below.

For additional enquiries, please contact Scott Couper: scouper@redcross.org.au 

Position description:  Position Description – Tender and Contracts Coordinator.pdf

Applications must be submitted online to be considered for this role.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are committed to protecting the rights of all people, particularly those who may be experiencing vulnerability. We want the people we work with to feel safe, be safe, and free from abuse of any kind. We are a child safe organisation. We have zero tolerance for child abuse. We value, respect and listen to children and are committed to supporting child safety and wellbeing in our work. 

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Job Ref #: 520242