AddressConsultants at Inside Policy are critical members of our project teams. Participating in project teams, Consultants support Project Leads to successfully deliver projects within tight timeframes for Inside Policy’s clients. Working across projects that traverse a range of social policy areas, Consultants are exposed to a breadth of research tasks and policy issues.
Inside Policy is an Indigenous owned and led social and economic policy advisory firm. Established in 2014 by founder, Kuku Yalanji woman, Natalie Walker, Inside Policy is a trusted partner to governments in delivering social research, consultation, policy reform and evaluation projects in the policy areas of family/domestic violence, child and family services, justice, social impact investment and Indigenous economic development.
Insiders (our Inside Policy team members) are committed to making our nation a better place for Indigenous Australians and our most vulnerable populations by providing evidence-informed and credible policy advice to decision makers.
We are a dynamic, purpose-driven organisation delivering high quality work for our clients in a fast-paced environment. To enable this, we support all staff through our annual growth process, Inside Up, by having flexible work arrangements, by financially and experientially supporting a range of learning experiences to help team members achieve their goals, and by ensuring team members are applying their areas of strengths while building new expertise.
The Consultant is responsible for supporting:
- Senior staff and Project Leads by undertaking project-related research activities such as desktop research, data entry, transcription and drafting sections of reports.
- Project teams with the development of deliverables including drafting sections of reports.
- Business development activities including the preparation of elements of proposals for future work.
- Facilitators of consultation or co-design activities with logistics, to scribe and minute discussions and outcomes.
- Other tasks as directed by supervisor as required from time-to-time.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Clear communicator with a high standard of written and verbal communication
- Ability to research across a variety of methods and sources and collate results into clear, structured reports.
- Ability to quickly acquire skill and knowledge in decolonised research methodologies.
- Understanding of the Australian policy environment and context, in particular policies and programs that affect First Nations Australians.
- Understanding of ethics and integrity in research.
- Ability to acquire new knowledge across a range of policy areas.
- Strategic thinking and proactive approach to problem solving.
- Ability to work in a team, independently and under supervision
- Ability to work to deadlines, in sometimes fast moving and competing environments.
- Policy, program or service delivery experience in a government, NGO or consulting role is desirable.
ATTRIBUTES
- Desire to learn and valuable develop insight into social and economic policy areas, in particular those that affect First Nations Australians.
- Ability to be critically reflective – at the individual, team and project level.
- Always aiming to produce high quality work.
- Valuing both practicality and fairness.
- Caring deeply for the world and being responsible with the advice you give.
- Always striving to build trust, with colleagues, stakeholders and clients.
- Work in accordance with Inside Policy’s values (See below).
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree or higher.
OTHER INFORMATION
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.
Why work with us?
We know that it’s an attractive jobs market right now, but for a small company, we believe we are competitive with the best when it comes to the benefits and the employee experience. We offer:
- Flexible – work from home, from anywhere but note some travel will be required to Inside Policy’s Sydney office when requested as well as fieldwork for our projects. We currently have team members in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and regional NSW.
- Competitive salary.
- Additional Covid-19 leave - 5 days paid Covid-19 leave (in addition to normal personal and annual leave).
- Attractive and comprehensive parental leave policy.
- Dedicated development programmes to support Insiders such as:
- Hothousing – a 3-month programme designed to help new Insiders learn the ropes of consulting, with a dedicated senior Insider taking you through a focused onboarding and skills assessment programme.
- Mentoring – drawing the superior experience of one of our senior team members, we offer dedicated mentoring for targeted help and support to help individuals grow in their role.
- Focused development programme Inside Up – we have our own in-house development programme to help individuals grow. This includes targeted skills development through external courses, quarterly goals and a constructive and transparent review process.
And more! We are a small yet growing band of committed researchers who truly want to make a difference. We are learning as we grow about how to not only change the world one policy at a time but how to create a future-focused organisation that looks after each other and those with whom we work.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply with your CV and cover letter explaining why you want to change the world. Our interview process will involve meeting the team in two rounds of interviews plus our Founder Natalie Walker. And of course, thorough reference checks, including proof of Covid-19 vaccination.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
This is a 12-month contract with the possibility to extend.
First-round interviews will be virtual, second-round interviews will be in person.
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