Investing in Rural Community Futures (IRCF) Program Officer

• Part-time 0.8FTE 
• Based in Victoria – Bendigo office/hybrid 
• Salary SCHADS 3.1 

About the role

Working in partnership with a wonderful funder collaborative, FRRR is expanding the Investing in Rural Community Futures (IRCF) place-based capacity building program into Victoria.

We are looking for a superstar all-rounder to fill the dynamic and varied role of Program Officer to provide excellent administrative, logistics and communications support for the IRCF team working across both Victorian, and NSW partner communities.

If you have a passion for supporting remote, rural and regional communities to thrive and enjoy being part of a great team where you will be supported to grow your skills, this may be the role for you. 

The Program Officer will have opportunities to utilize their broad skillset and engage with diverse stakeholders both internally and externally to support program excellence.

Responsibilities will include:   

• General enquiries – Be the first point of contact to triage enquiries related to IRCF program activities; 
• Community research – Support desktop data analysis to inform IRCF community selection and ongoing evaluation; 
• Grant applicant and assessment support – Liaise with the Grant Officer team at FRRR to ensure the grant assessment process runs smoothly, monitoring IRCF grants in progress, contributing to grant/project reports and acquittals, and correspondence with grant recipients; 
• Communications/marketing – Support the team to develop, review and track communications materials for the IRCF and FRRR platforms such as the website, socials posts and flyers for community workshops. 
• Event & logistics support – assist the team with event and workshops planning across the IRCF communities, including logistics assistance with flight, hotel and venue research and bookings; 
• Budget tracking & invoice processing – Provide data entry and tracking for the IRCF program budgets, including processing finance invoices, reconciling monthly reporting and reconciling credit card and expense reports; 
• Data organisation – Regular data maintenance of the grants management database and Sharepoint filing system, suggesting improvements as needed; 
• Secretariat – Provide Secretariat support and task tracking for internal meetings, and external meetings as required; 
• Reporting – Data collation for reporting, program evaluations, and supporting the Program Managers in the development of case studies and storytelling that highlights successful projects.