Advisor Project

Working with Proximity (an SPA Australia company). Proximity is a leading provider of integrated consulting, legal and commercial services to government entities and large organisations. We recently joined forces with Systems Planning and Analysis (SPA) and are in the process of integrating our Australian teams. Proximity collaborates with its clients to overcome challenges and achieve excellent outcomes. By creating an exceptional workplace culture, Proximity equips its people with the confidence and knowledge to find the 'right fit' solution for its clients' needs.

We're committed to ensuring a safe and respectful workplace, where all our people, no matter their identity, orientation, background or physical ability feel valued and accepted. Our values are central to everything we do and stand for. We are strengthening our culture and building our client advantage by being Genuine people, bringing a Bold Approach, and providing Helpful outcomes. We are looking for an opportunity to use your project coordination skills in a consulting environment and are seeking an early career professional to join our team.

The Proximity Consulting group provides astute advice and solutions on some of the most interesting and complex Commonwealth government programs and projects. As part of the Consulting team, your eye for detail will enable you to support the team to achieve key outcomes for our government clients. You will be working across many of our projects, gaining exposure to diverse work and collaborating with our team of advisors and experts. If you are looking for meaningful work that makes a difference, you love variety, and you are not afraid of ambiguity – please reach out to talk with us today.

Proximity sees opportunities others miss. We bring together brilliant minds in legal, commercial, and consulting specialisations, working collaboratively with our clients to uncover what's possible. Our multidisciplinary approach helps our clients do extraordinary work for the betterment of our communities. We're passionate about the work we achieve together; we champion each other, our clients, and our communities.

This role is an exciting opportunity to:

• Develop project management skills on complex government projects
• Undertake project assurance, risk management, governance and develop business cases
• Manage project budgets, timelines and outcomes

Some Of The Responsibilities Could Include

• Project managing and driving project success by coordinating tasks, schedules, and resources and planning activities
• Assisting with stakeholder consultations: question development, synthesising feedback, developing and analysing survey data
• Undertaking document reviews and literature scans, discovery, assessments
• Project support: coordinate meetings, summarise actions, track progress/issues/risks, and produce status reports
• Research: synthesising complex document information and providing desktop research to support the preparation of advice, reports, or presentations
• Writing client documents: drafting reports, briefings, policies, and procedures

As a Proximity team member, your role is that of a trusted sidekick – helping our clients' teams succeed by embracing the complexity and sensitivity of commercial law issues and knowing how to be helpful in the context of the public sector environment.

We're looking for people who live our Values. People who are:

• Tenacious. A can-do attitude, results-driven and dedicated to delivery
• Solution oriented. Think beyond the immediate questions and challenges and produce comprehensive solutions
• Client-first. Relationships matter. Listen, anticipate client needs
• Team players. Collegiate, share knowledge and build confidence in others
• Adaptable. Work through ambiguity or uncertainty

• 2+ years' project coordination experience gained within a corporate or government environment
• High level analysis and information synthesising skills
• Strong verbal, written, and visual presentation skills
• Coordination skills to keep project tasks on track
• Desire to work closely with clients, being adaptable and responsive
• You may hold a project management qualification or have a strong desire to achieve one
• Have an Australian Government Security Clearance (or the ability to obtain one)

If you have a consulting background or an understanding of the commercial/private industry, and can thrive in a fast-paced, demanding environment, I'd love to hear from you

Plus, if you want to join a team of dedicated professionals who solve challenging problems and have fun doing it, you'll fit right in at Proximity If this position interests you, please get in contact with Loretta Pabian, Senior Manager- People: careers@proximity.com.au