Australia: Practice Area Specialist

Organization: GRM International
Country: Australia
Closing date: 04 Jan 2015

Practice Area Specialist 1 – Education

Background
GRM International is a leading international development management company specializing in the provision of project design, management expertise and technical assistance to development projects for bilateral and multilateral funding agencies, governments and corporations. For more than 45 years, GRM has been bringing expertise in managing large-scale projects, and sourcing and managing high quality experts covering all disciplinary skills required to implement development projects.

We are seeking an experienced candidate to join GRM as a Practice Area Specialist in the Education Practice division. This person will be supporting Education projects within GRM, but with a particular focus on the new “Education Panel”. The Education Panel is a DFAT initiative to source short-term project expertise in education for technical projects abroad.

The Role
Working with the Education Practice Area team, the primary responsibility of the role is to lead the Panel Help Desk, and will be the key point of contact for all Panel requests and Services Orders. The position will be required to work with a diverse group of professionals both within and external to the Australian Aid Program and will need to be able to work with teams ensuring that activities contribute to agreed outcomes.

The role spans several Practice Area fields including Business Development, Project Management, and providing Technical Input/Sector Expertise.

The full Job Description can be viewed here.

The Requirements
To be successful in this role you will have:
Specific experience required

• Master’s degree in a relevant field
• Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience
• Minimum of 2 years of government client project management and business development experience that includes management of one or more projects including experience in project start-up and closeout
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in working in a developing country or in a project based environment
• Experience contributing to or managing at least 1-2 successful major bids (including each of or a combination of structuring bid financials, team selection, drafting technical response and partner negotiations)
• Demonstrated success in working with Ministries of Education, Associations & CSO.
• Recognized technical expertise and experience in the Education Sector including work on bilateral/multilateral, INGO education projects, presentations at conferences and published articles.

Key competency areas

• Project Management experience.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong technical writing skills.
• Ability to conceptualize and write a bid proposal or project report.
• Sound business development and Client Relationship Management skills.
• People management skills.
• Financial acumen and the ability to interpret and analyse financial reports.
• Sound problem solving and decision making skills.
• Willingness to travel and work abroad a minimum of eight weeks per year in developing countries and elsewhere.If you are interested in the above role and are ready to take the next step in your career in Development please attach your response to the Key Selection Criteria with your resume via the link below.
  

Only applicants who address the Key Selection Criteria will be considered for this role.

Applications close 4^th January 2014.

How to apply:

Apply via the GRM website here.