The Australian HR Institute is the professional body that sets HR standards and certifies HR professionals across Australia.

Join our dynamic team at AHRI (Australian Human Resources Institute) as an Events Delivery Lead (National). We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented individual to lead the end-to-end coordination and delivery of major national events, including our National Convention and Exhibition, DEI Conference, IWD Conference, AHRI Awards, and other key activities.

Event Planning and Execution:

• Lead the planning, delivery, and follow-up of major national events.
• Create and manage project plans, collaborating with internal stakeholders.
• Develop and manage event budgets in coordination with finance.
• Negotiate with suppliers for goods and services, managing contracts.
• Collaborate with marketing, communication, web development, and customer experience teams for event promotion.

Relationship Management:

• Develop and maintain relationships with internal teams and external providers.
• Liaise with speakers, facilitators, and external event organizations.
• Manage communications with registered delegates, ensuring timely updates.

Administration:

• Provide event administration for all national AHRI events.
• Ensure compliance with relevant Acts, legal requirements, and ethical standards.
• Maintain up-to-date event and customer records on the AHRI CRM.

Finance and Reporting:

• Provide accurate and timely event reporting and registration recording.
• Manage event budgets, control costs, and coordinate financial transactions.
• Use AHRI systems to ensure CRM integrity and application of CPD points.
• Coordinate retrieval and distribution of financial and event data for reporting.

Staff Coordination:

• Collaborate with GM, Sales Marketing and Events for project allocation.
• Undertake functions such as recruitment, selection, orientation, and performance management.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching for staff.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Event Management, Business, or related field preferred
• 2-4 years experience in planning and executing national events.
• Strong negotiation and budget management skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Proficient in event-related software and CRM systems.
• Leadership and staff management experience.

• Hybrid, flexible working arrangements, including interstate or international
• Access to Training & Development, including AHRI membership and access to courses, webinars & local events
• Salary Sacrifice - super salary sacrifice & salary packaging
• Employee Discounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Discounted Health Insurance

How to Apply: If you're passionate about delivering exceptional events and have the skills to drive success, we want to hear from you. Submit your resume and a (cover letter optional), detailing your relevant experience.

At AHRI, we embrace diversity and are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community, and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

We’re looking for a resourceful, thoughtful and creative human to lead strategy, service and innovation projects for the benefit of people and planet.

We are mostly based in Yálla-birr-ang (Collingwood, Melbourne) and we welcome applications from all lands and backgrounds. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTIQA+) people.

About Today

We are Australia’s most awarded social impact agency.

We use design and technology to make change happen, at pace and at scale. In the last 12 months, we’ve designed and built Australia’s first online family violence intervention order, established a new approach to co-design for the Victorian mental health sector, built a peer-to-peer product that helps people learn Auslan, and launched a campaign to shift mainstream perceptions of climate change—plus many more.

Our practice is built on strong foundations of human-centred design and digital making. There are 50 of us, based mostly in Naarm (Melbourne), working across strategy, research, design, content, delivery and a wonderful support team.

You’ll experience a welcoming environment filled with smart, fun and caring people from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines, who are passionate about creativity, making change, and learning from each other.

We’re looking for an experienced strategic design or service design lead, with a solid (8+ years) experience. You’ll be part of a strategic design team that has diverse skills across service design, digital strategy and innovation, with a well-developed research practice and a strong focus on co-design.

You’ll be experienced with:

• Service, product and business design
• Facilitation
• Co-design
• Human-centred design
• Systems thinking
• Experimentation and hypotheses-led approaches
• Change management
• Bringing clarity to ambiguity
• Aligning and navigating stakeholders and partnerships
• Coaching and mentoring

You will also demonstrate:

• Passion for delivering work that makes social and environmental impact
• Experience with managing multiple, complex projects, with constraints of budget and time
• An ability to thrive in a collaborative, creative team environment
• You treat others with kindness, empathy and respect
• You are optimistic and bring humour, lightness and play into your work
• You approach every moment thinking ‘how can I help?’
• You know your strengths and can support others to grow their skills in these areas

What you’ll be doing:

• Conducting research and gathering inspiration from interesting places
• Leading multidisciplinary teams on projects big and small, from early discovery to implementation
• Collaboratively developing ideas for business models, services and products
• Proposing improvements to organisations with big ambitions for impact
• Giving form to ideas through wireframes, prototypes or service scenarios
• Facilitating workshops and other collaborative experiences with clients, stakeholders and people with lived experience
• Effectively communicating ideas using a variety of techniques, including storytelling, user journeys, system maps, and service blueprints
• Building cases for change based on robust data and best practices
• Supporting business development and client engagement
• Coaching and supporting others in the team
• Taking an active interest in the design discipline and regularly sharing the subject with the broader team and community

Working at Today

We work on work with purpose. Our projects see us finding solutions to big, complex challenges around climate, care and communities.

Above all else we strive to protect our team’s capacity for resilience and their general wellbeing. This goes beyond our dog-friendly workplace and regular pub lunches as a team.

• We offer a compelling career framework and learning budget to support your growth
• Today is a truly flexible workplace, making space and valuing the other important parts of your life, including generous parental leave and your birthday off
• You are actively empowered to help shape the business, the work we do and the impact we create
• You will work in close-knit, multi-disciplinary, self-managed project teams that make interesting, beautiful things that positively impact the community
• Everyone is equally talented and trusts each other to experiment and suggest new ways to crack client problems
• We aspire to create the perfect conditions for creatives to do their best work, work they are proud of, work that makes a difference

Learn more about our values, commitment to diversity, inclusion and equality and the way we work at today.design/careers.

We are looking for a Partnerships Lead to oversee Square Partnerships in Australia. Our team's mission is to create an ecosystem that connects partners and sellers, and enables both to build a business on Square. You'll represent Square's brand in Australia and help establish local partnerships, engaging and negotiating deals across developers, referral networks, agencies, and technology companies of all sizes. You will represent the voice of Australia's partnerships program and promote your team's strategy, and will report to the Global Head of Product Partnerships located in San Francisco.

Square Australia partners include platform partners using Square API integrated third-party products (accounting and tax, form builders, booking and scheduling, items and inventory, delivery and orders, marketing and analytics, eCommerce, point of sale), and referral partners (organisations and agencies across banking and financial services, telecommunications and other markets). You will manage a Partner Manager (responsible for growing awareness of Square's capability through product integration and partner promotional marketing activities), advocate for feature enhancements and share Australia market intelligence with global Product and Development teams. Passionate about delivering meaningful financial services to small businesses, you will be motivated by the successful outcomes of customers, partners, and other teams.

You will:

• Lead the Australian Partnerships program; including team strategy, hiring, coaching, and ongoing development.

• Become a Square product expert - able to talk about Square's partnership strategy and platform ecosystem.

• Set the Australia Partnerships team's strategy and deliver on the team's goals.

• Work with Product, Account Management, Support, and Sales teams to identify and engage potential Partners to enhance our product functionality and distribution.

• Work with Australia and global go-to-market functions such as Sales, Account Management, Customer Success and Marketing and work together with these to ensure the success of Square's Australian Sellers and achievement of Partnerships goals.

• Represent the voice of the Australia partnerships program across Square globally.

• Develop annual and quarterly plans that increase growth across new partners and partner attached sellers.

• Source and sign new partners that will directly benefit Australian sellers and further promote Square's growth in Australia.

• Manage the partner negotiation lifecycle - from initial scoping and negotiation to prioritisation and execution of strategic projects; financial assessment and forecasting; handover to the Partner Manager.

• Build deep relationships with Square teams and external partners to grow Square's relationships with strategic partners.

• Report on goals for your team, and provide updates on strategic projects and insights.

Hearth Support Services is a registered NDIS provider with a commitment to consistently provide the highest standard of support. We achieve this through fostering and cultivating long-term, sustainable relationships.

We're looking for someone to join our team and manage the end-to-end recruitment process for support workers in our two newest regions: Bendigo & Geelong.

Location is flexible: you could be based from our offices in Glen Iris, Brunswick, or Geelong, with flexible working arrangements available.

The Recruitment Coordinator role is vital to building the culture of our organisation by attracting and choosing the right candidates to support our participants.

You will have input in developing our broader Recruitment strategy & workforce planning while managing the recruitment & onboarding of quality Disability Support Workers for Regional Victoria.

Working in a small & supportive team, your role at Hearth will include volume recruitment, interviewing, conducting reference checks, and getting support workers ready to start work.

• Strong understanding of the end-to-end recruitment process
• Professional or lived experience with disability and/or community services
• Experience working with a range of Microsoft Office Programs
• Exceptional communication and time management skills
• A willingness to participate in the improvement of processes and systems
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment independently and as part of a team

• Rewarding work - see the people you've recruited succeed and grow over time!
• Supportive and dynamic team environment
• Ongoing training and development
• Competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Please include both a copy of your resume and a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria, your suitability for the role, and a little about yourself.

Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.