General Manager Engagement

About the role

The General Manager will work closely with the CEO as a member of the ABV lead team, focussing on engaging volunteers and corporate and government partners to position ABV well with our key stakeholders.

The General Manager will work closely with the CEO to ensure that ABV’s Marketing and Communication Strategy positions ABV as a thought leader for community led development, community led recovery and resilience across Asia Pacific and within Australia, focusing on strengthening communities through business.

The General Manager will be responsible for overseeing ABV’s volunteer program, communication activities, and Corporate Skilled Volunteering programs. The position will collaborate with the CEO and General Manager Programs to maintain and build ABVs key stakeholder relationships to ensure growth. Identifying new program and partnership opportunities in collaboration with ABV’s Leadership team will be an integral part of this role.

The General Manager will be accountable for leading the strategic development of ABV’s programs and partnerships enhancing ABV’s voice and leadership in the development sector, locally and globally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Oversight of ABV’s volunteer program, communication activities, and Corporate Skilled Volunteering programs
- In collaboration with the CEO and General Manager Programs, manage key stakeholder relationships.
- Oversight of ABV’s volunteer life cycle journey including engagement, recruitment, training and management
- Support the CEO in new corporate partnership acquisition.
- Management of Senior Managers and Program Directors responsible for implementation
- Oversight of innovation in volunteering, corporate partnerships and communication
- Manage external stakeholder relationships and ABV’s profile in the corporate social responsibility.
- Identifying new program and partnership opportunities in collaboration with the CEO
- Achieve revenue targets as agreed with the CEO.
- Collaborate with the team to develop and deliver communication strategies that support campaign activities and effectively promote the organisation.
- Manage ABV’s marketing and communication strategy.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Work in compliance with the ABV Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning (MEL) Framework.
- Provide relevant data, analysis and reporting to support ABV’s evaluation reporting.

Other
- Any other business requirements as identified by the CEO.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Essential Requirements
- Formal qualifications in a relevant field e.g., community or international development, social work or similar.
- Proven skills, knowledge, qualifications and extensive experience in program and project design, implementation and management, particularly in the not-for-profit sector and/or international development sector.
- Proven skills and experience in partnership brokering and management; with acute business acumen and understanding of organisational issues and challenges.
- Demonstrated experience in leading, managing and developing small teams of staff, with a commitment to mentoring and capability building.
- Excellent interpersonal, persuasive, and oral and written communication skills with the ability to achieve buy-in from all stakeholders and achieve agreed outcomes.
- Excellent stakeholder relationship building and management with extensive experience across a range of sectors and contexts.
- Able to work effectively at all levels in an organisation as a team player, working collaboratively and supporting others to achieve.
- Comfortable working online and competent in use of online collaboration and project management tools.
- Able to work remotely from manager, independently with a high degree of autonomy.
- Able to work flexible working hours from time to time to meet the needs of the business.
- Able to_ _travel both domestically and internationally to meet role requirements.
- Experience working cross culturally.
- Financial acumen in not-for-profit management

Desired requirements
- Experience working in a corporate social responsibility function.

Position Description : Position Description General Manager Engagement

This position is based along the Australian East Coast. Remuneration $100,000 - $140,000 AUD.

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Profession: #CEO_and_Senior_Management

Sector: #Community_Development, #Community_Engagement, #Overseas_Aid_and_Development