Disaster Relief Australia (DRA) brings hope to communities devastated by disaster. We unite the skills and experience of military veterans, emergency responders and motivated civilians to deploy Disaster Relief Teams around Australia and the world. With our army of dedicated volunteers, we respond to disasters and deliver support to those who need it.
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Project Summary
The Disaster Relief Australia (DRA) Wellbeing Project, funded by Movember and The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, has proven that volunteering with DRA has significant mental health and wellbeing benefits for military veterans, particularly those facing challenges during or after transitioning from military service. Building on this success, the project's second stage focuses on integrating volunteering with DRA as a recognised wellbeing support service within the key stakeholder transition pathways.
This stage aims to identify the necessary processes, relationships, and resources to formalise DRA's role, address barriers to adoption, and aligning with the key stakeholder’s existing frameworks to support transitioning veterans. The project seeks to establish DRA as an evidence-based, sustainable strategy for improving veteran wellbeing through disaster relief volunteering.
The role
12-month contract.
The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in leading stage two of the DRA Wellbeing Project, ensuring that the integration of disaster relief volunteering into veteran transition pathways is both practical and sustainable. Acting as the primary link between implementation science and DRA’s operational capabilities, the Project Manager will provide strategic oversight, stakeholder coordination, and risk management to drive project success.
They will be responsible for developing and executing the project plan, tracking deliverables and milestones, aligning activities with key partners, and ensuring that data collection, financial oversight, and reporting align with project objectives. Additionally, they will facilitate knowledge translation, ensuring that insights from the project are seamlessly incorporated into the final report's recommendations. Their ability to problem-solve, adapt to challenges, and unify diverse stakeholders is essential for ensuring that the project achieves its goal of establishing DRA as a recognised, evidence-based wellbeing support service for transitioning veterans.
Key accountabilities of the role include:
- Develop and oversee the project plan, ensuring clear deliverables, milestones, and deadlines.
- Monitor project progress, adjust plans as needed, and keep stakeholders informed.
- Manage stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment with the project's objectives.
- Identify and mitigate risks, addressing challenges related to timelines, resources, and external factors.
- Oversee budget management, working with the finance team to ensure compliance with funding requirements.
- Facilitate data collection, ensuring accurate documentation, knowledge transfer and collaborating with the research partner.
- Track and evaluate project performance.
- Review the final project report, ensuring recommendations are feasible and actionable.
- Lead stakeholder presentations, communicating key findings and ensuring a smooth transition for implementation.
Capabilities for the role include:
Strategic thinking and change
- Leads and influences change
- Motivates others
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- High level of initiative and accountability
- Optimising performance
Relationships
- Displays flexibility and resilience
- Coordinate project requirements and develop solutions to meet needs of multiple business functions and with external parties
- Resolve complex issues and needs
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders and project teams
- Ability to manage vendor relationships and ensure adherence to contractual obligations
Results and Business Enablers
- Assumes accountability
- Delivers effective outcomes across functional and organisations boundaries
- Highly organised and detail orientated
- Multi-tasking and time management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks
- Use computer applications that enable performance of more complex tasks
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies and tools
- Apply practical skills in the use of relevant technology
