Research Intern for  a Leading Australian Funding Solutions Provider

About the Company:

• Our client is dedicated to fueling the growth of Australian businesses by helping them secure grants, awards, and traineeships.
• Trusted by businesses across various industries, our client specialises in identifying opportunities and challenges that can unlock funding and recognition.
• They provide end-to-end management, from identifying opportunities and crafting tailored strategies to handling applications and delivering measurable results.

About the Role:

This internship offers an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in grant research, proposal development, and project coordination. You’ll work closely with the team to identify funding opportunities, manage application processes, and support clients in achieving their business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Grant and Awards Research: Identify and track funding and business award opportunities suitable for various industries.
• Proposal Development: Assist in creating tailored grant proposals in collaboration with the account management team.
• Application Management: Monitor application statuses, report outcomes, and maintain clear communication with stakeholders.
• Traineeship Coordination: Work with external providers to organise traineeship programs and complete related administrative tasks.
• Calendar Management: Maintain a centralised schedule of opportunities and ensure timely updates for stakeholders.
• Reporting and Admin Support: Prepare reports on grant activities and support the team with general administrative tasks.

More Info:

• Location: North Sydney
• Type: Part-time internship of at least 3 days per week
• Duration: 6 months
• Work Arrangement: Office-based
• Start Date: mid January 2025
• Allowance: monthly allowance will be provided to support some expenses during internship

• Currently studying or recently graduated in Business, or a related field.
• Finance or Economics background is preferred. 
• Strong research and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Detail-oriented and organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Familiarity with grants or funding processes is a plus.
• Enthusiastic and proactive, with a passion for helping businesses grow.

About LEAP

LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Productivity Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement has kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, to ‘Help lawyers who help people’. The market leading software we develop and support is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll find yourself in good company here.

Meet the Client Success Team

Our Client Success team are the experienced LEAP specialists responsible for managing, onboarding, training and retaining clients with LEAP’s Core product as well as Integrated Products and Apps. As a trusted LEAP expert, you’ll work closely with clients to enable easy and efficient utilisation of LEAP software, leaving our clients free to focus on what they do best.

You'll provide hands-on, on-site and face to face support that give our clients comfort and confidence in the power of our products. This is a valuable opportunity to have powerful impact in a meaningful space, guiding clients from day one right through to ‘business as usual’.

What you'll do

As our newest Sydney based Client Success Manager you will ensure long-term retention of our clients with your relationship management skills and knowledge of the legal industry. You will maximise our client's satisfaction and loyalty to the LEAP product which will minimise client churn, and effectively engage with at-risk clients to win their confidence and develop successful product adoption and retention strategies. You will be involved in aspects of support, account management, product and feature demonstration, education of clients and your day to day might look like this:

• Maximise the productivity of clients using LEAP by confidently demonstrating new features, products and add-ons
• Build trusted relationships by understanding the client’s challenges and needs and provide/facilitate effective solutions
• Work with key stakeholders (Principals and Practice Managers) to suggest improvements to productivity and utilisation using LEAP features and products
• Identify at-risk accounts by monitoring and analysing “Client Health” metrics, NPS results and other feedback to identify clients who are not realising the full benefit from their investment in LEAP
• Collate positive client testimonials for use in marketing material
• Represent the voice of the client to provide input into LEAP Dev, Marketing and Sales
• Collaborate closely with Implementations, Renewals and Companion Product teams to address issues and to identify expansion / upsell opportunities
• Ensure all client activity is accurately logged in Salesforce (CRM) in a timely manner
• Attend and present at conferences, roadshows, webinars, exhibitions and events, networking with existing clients and prospective clients
• Achieve individual and team targets, including “Top 5” goals aligned with the company’s goals

To be successful in this client facing role you will have 2+ years experience working in a law firm in some capacity and a proactive approach to client satisfaction. On top of that, you will bring:

• A proven ability to negotiate and engage in a confidence-winning manner, achieving commercial outcomes and high levels of client satisfaction and loyalty
• A track record of meeting and / or exceeding sales targets and KPIs
• The ability to build strong relationships with both clients and internal stakeholders through confidence and trust
• Experience navigating challenging situations and clients

You are the type of person who

• Builds trusting relationships using appropriate interpersonal styles to establish effective relationships with clients and internal partners; interacting with others in a way that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in one’s intentions
• Is proactive – you take prompt action to accomplish objectives, and achieve goals beyond what is required
• Is passionate about client satisfaction – you take responsibility for client satisfaction and loyalty and can sense the appropriate approach to ongoing client support
• Has high impact communication – you can clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others’ thoughts and actions
• Has exceptional time management – you can effectively manage your time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently and to the highest of standards!
• Has strong presentation skills – you can effectively present LEAP features to a group of people and ability to read the room

LEAP will provide you with the best training, equipment, mentoring and support that we are capable of to optimise the chances of you being successful. In addition to that you'll receive:

• Friendly, supportive, and driven culture
• Complimentary gym membership
• Flexible Work Environment
• Fully stocked pantry
• Monthly massages
• Break out area and sporting activities
• Monthly celebrations for birthdays, work anniversaries, new joiners
• Generous Parental Leave benefits
• One additional paid "Be Me" leave day per year to celebrate being you!
• Opportunity to participate in our Employee Share Scheme

Key responsibilities will include:

• proactively managing assigned customers;
• ensuring a superior level of customer service to facilitate client access to Medilaw Independent Medical Exams and other Medilaw services according to the client's needs; 
• promptly answering the phone to all clients and managing appointments and appointment related inquiries in line with Medilaw procedures;
• delivering superior customer service & client liaison to our key stakeholders;
• actively promoting new products/services to assigned existing clients.