Deputy Director

• Full time: 38 hours per week, one year position with a 3mth probationary period. The role will require preparedness to work outside of normal working hours at times
• Salary: Range of $104,311 to $118,589 plus superannuation and five weeks leave, dependent on skills, experience and previous track record.

Purpose

The Deputy Director will be a key partner and co-conspirator with ECNT’s Executive Director, joining a leadership team which has built the organisation into a successful and expanding ENGO. ECNT has a national and international reputation built on strategies which have bought public and political attention to the key environmental issues in the NT – Climate, Water, Landclearing, Renewables, Mining and Biodiversity.

The Deputy Director will be a multi-talented generalist, with experience as a campaigner or as a manager in a not for profit or non-government organisation with a diverse funding pool.

About Environment Centre NT

The Environment Centre NT is the peak environmental organisation in the Northern Territory (NT). We have been working to protect the NT environment since 1983.

ECNT is an exciting and dynamic organisation, with an extraordinary impact locally and nationally. We have undergone a period of growth in recent years, and we are now leading some of the most important campaigns in the country.

We are the trusted, independent, voice on environmental issues in the NT and we fearlessly hold governments and industry to account in pursuit of our vision. We have expanded rapidly in the last few years in response to escalating environmental threats. We are currently running a number of cutting-edge campaigns across our key strategic work themes: mining, climate, freshwater and biodiversity that require a sophisticated and multi-layered communications strategy. For more information, please visit our website: www.ecnt.org.au.

ECNT acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the unceded lands and waters upon which we work and their role in caring for country for millennia, now, and into the future.

Role Responsibilities

• Support the ECNT Director in the leadership of ECNT, including responsibility for delivering on our theory of change and strategic plan
• Build and maintain effective relationships with allies and stakeholders
• Use research and analysis to further campaign objectives and shape campaign strategies

• Collaborate with ECNT Director and Operations Manager to oversee our governance and financial compliance systems, grant applications, activities and acquittals.

• Share with the Director and Operations Manager the responsibility of staff management, development and growth, helping staff to grow in their autonomy, competence and leadership, and shape ECNT’s culture, as ambitious, relational, collaborative, highly skilled leaders of the environment movement.

Role Requirements

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of power from a political and business point of view
• Understanding of policy and how this can shape real world outcomes
• Knowledge and/or experience in national or international campaigning
• Understanding of social research and marketing for environmental and social change
• Ability to assess points of intervention/leverage to achieve outcomes
• How to use research, insights and analysis to develop campaign strategies
• Knowledge of financial and governance requirements for an ENGO

Skills

• Strategic analysis
• Intellectual ability to understand dynamic scientific, social and political issues
• Intellectual ability to understand legal issues necessary for the job
• Problem solving skills, and the ability to create clear, simple solutions
• Adapting communication for a range of audiences
• Demonstrable experience of communication strategy development
• Demonstrable ability to work effectively with the media
• Risk (legal, reputational) assessment skills
• Demonstrable budgeting (preparing, presenting, monitoring) skills
• Presentation and reporting skills
• Exceptional interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Project management, planning and organising, including the ability to effectively adjust plans to rapidly changing circumstances
• Demonstrable staff management and supervision skills

Experience

• Experience in campaigning
• Experience in the development of winning strategy
• Proven experience in speaking to the public and media
• Proven ability to build and maintain strategic relationships
• Experience managing a small organisation or a team within a larger organisation

We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We actively encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from Culturally & Linguistically Diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ people, a diverse range of genders, people with disability and others who have diverse experiences of our world to apply for this opportunity.

Initial enquires to the Executive Director, by e-mail to [email protected] using the subject line: Deputy Director enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.