Associate Director, Project Advisory

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Ethos Urban Full time

About the Opportunity


As a result of recent continuing growth and a strong pipeline of exciting new projects, urban development consultancy Ethos Urban is seeking an Associate Director, Project Advisory & Management to join our growing team in Sydney.

The role will suit a dynamic and passionate individual looking to take the next step in their professional career.

Key responsibilities
As an Associate Director, Project Advisory and Management you will:

  • Have an existing personal industry profile and strong emerging sales focus and client/ industry relationships that can be leveraged to assist in the growth of the team and our offering.
  • Contribute to the growth of the business by understanding the markets we serve and key opportunities, with a focus on long term pipeline, with the skills to help procure such opportunities.
  • Provide advice directly to a range of clients across both private and government authorities, and manage medium to large complex projects to ensure the quality of projects is maintained, thus preserving the business's established reputation with clients for advice and solutions within the marketplace.
  • Have experience in leading and writing compelling value driven proposals for clients and partners, including scoping of projects, budgets and articulating our value proposition through service and solutionbased thinking.
  • Lead the preparation of project briefs, risk management plans, procurement processes and all aspects of consultant team management through the strategic advisory and approval phases of precinct planning, structure planning and master planning projects.
  • Be the single point of contact and trusted advisor to clients and advise and strategise to mitigate project risk.
  • Work across a wide range of projects and services across the organisation's diversified portfolios, including as part of multidisciplinary project teams.
  • Guide, mentor & manage our emerging junior staff, a true advocate for talent
  • Project manage other staff including delegating, supervising, and reviewing work and delivering projects within budget and scope, quickly identifying and dealing with 'scopecreep' issues and fee variations.

Who we are looking for

  • Tertiary qualifications in Project Management, Planning, Design, Economics, Communications and/or a Built Environment related degree/discipline.
  • Diverse, demonstrated industry experience.
  • Experience within professional consulting services (highly desirable).
  • Highly developed organisational and project management skills, with a nimble and positive attitude to manage a range of different projects and deliverables at the same time.
  • An interest in active business development with a view to working closely with the Project Advisory and Management Director in winning new work.
  • Understanding and experience of planning, development or infrastructure approval processes.
  • A strong team player with an interest in helping further develop our Project Advisory and Management service offering
  • Excellent communication (oral and written) and presentation skills.

About Ethos Urban
We believe bringing collective intelligence to complex decisions delivers a better urban experience.

Our towns and cities are always changing and we know this creates choices that can make a difference to the quality of our urban living.


We believe we can always improve the urban life experience by creating engaging places that connect us to where we need to go, meet our changing needs and create opportunities for everyone to thrive.


For over 25 years our people have worked in partnership with the public and private sectors to provide them with the momentum to realise their ambitions for better places, communities and cities.

Why Work With Us?

The business of creating a better urban experience is a complex one.

It requires patience, diligence, intelligence and perhaps most importantly, a passion for making a difference to our experience of urban life.

What we do and the way that we do it is unique. We view each project as a complex puzzle that requires different perspectives and alternative angles to solve it. At Ethos Urban, no one individual ever has the answer.

It's only when we bring people with different specialisations from different teams that we can see the full picture and then the way forward.

We call it collective intelligence.

We back our people:

We are proponents of flexible work, we provide generous leave provisions including purchased leave (up to 4 weeks annually in addition to your standard 4), 18 weeks paid parental leave regardless of your parental definition, paid study leave & access to transitional coaching.

In addition, we cover your industry memberships, we provide an access to an array of great learning and personal development initiatives and incredible career pathways.

For more please visit our website.

We have adopted the globally recognised United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as our ESG framework.

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