Head of Community Development

The Virtual Adviser Network team has a winning aspiration to be the #1 network of our kind in our industry by supporting the leaders of client advice firms build more successful and sustainable businesses as well as working closely with our Wealth Solutions sales colleagues. Today, we are recognised as a highly respected and differentiated program, as well as a critical part of Macquarie’s proposition to the financial advice market. We see our team’s role as seeking to inspire, challenge and connect our member clients.

As the Head of Community Development in the Virtual Adviser Network, you will lead the team responsible for:

- Our community member experience from onboarding to offboarding, including member communications, Workplace group management, legal/contracts, invoicing, member feedback
- Running our community events including our conferences, workshops and webinars
- Our ancillary programs including end client survey program (Propensity), other data and benchmarking programs, the Virtual Adviser Network Expert Panel, the Global Innovation Program (US study tour) and related activities, such as vendor management
- Liaising with Banking and Financial Services Marketing and Strategic Accounts Teams on injecting VAN insights into the relevant external market activities, including managing our Knowledge Library, collateral look and feel, quality control etc
- Work closely with the Sales team to ensure relevance, timeliness, and coordination of our Virtual Adviser Network programs, especially around marketing, insights delivery and recruitment
- Nurture a high performing team to learn, develop and live their values
- Drive the next stage of development of our programs to help Virtual Adviser Network achieve its winning aspiration
- Build strong relationships with the leaders of some of the industry’s most important business and in turn have a significant impact on their trajectory
- Grow the recognition of the Virtual Adviser Network programs and the quality of our insights and have a strong presence in the market
- Become an integral part of Macquarie’s Wealth Solutions team and its in-market proposition and positioning

We are looking for someone who:

- Is an influential leader with strong mentoring and coaching skills
- Can communicate to an engaged but busy community with powerful messages that have impact
- Naturally has a strategic mindset and a willingness to challenge the status quo
- Has exposure to events management, vendor management and data analytics
- With great stakeholder management and personal relationship management skills
- Is a good risk manager and is committed to operational excellence

If you’re an experienced marketing, communications or operational executive with a strong strategic mindset who is looking for a role that is at the cutting edge of professional community engagement and development, we’d love to talk with you.

**About Banking and Financial Services**

Banking and Financial Services is Macquarie’s retail banking and financial services business, providing a diverse range of personal banking, wealth management, business banking and vehicle finance products and services to retail clients, advisers, brokers and business clients.

**Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion**

The diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths. An inclusive and equitable environment enables us to deliver innovative and sustainable outcomes for our people, clients, shareholders and communities. From day one, you'll be encouraged to be yourself and supported to perform at your best. If our purpose of ‘empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future’ is as inspiring to you as it is to us, please apply. With the right technology, support and resources, our people can work in a range of flexible ways.

**About Macquarie**:
A career at Macquarie means you’ll have the opportunity to develop and utilise new skills, explore interesting fields and do challenging work that will impact the lives of people around the world—whether it’s accelerating the green energy transition, helping sustain global food supplies, financing social housing projects or investing in essential infrastructure. At Macquarie, we’re empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future.

Our size and international presence means your work can take you anywhere—across business groups, disciplines, sectors and borders. With 18,000+ employees and offices in 33 markets around the world, we’re a truly global organisation.

You’ll be supported by a diverse team where the unique perspectives, ideas and experiences that all of our people bring are valued. You’ll be empowered to address unmet needs in our communities whilst advising and investing alongside our clients and partners. Working with us, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference.

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