Contract: 0.8 FTE permanent contract

Location: This role is an Australia-based position. CPI ANZ is a remote-first team, meaning that we will support our staff to work from a home office, or co-working space, or a combination of locations.  If applying from outside Australia, you should ensure that you meet the necessary visa and work permit requirements. We are unable to act as a sponsor or provide visa support. We will not be considering applications from New Zealand staff as part of this recruitment round, but hope to in the not-too-distant future.

When: Looking for a commencement date in mid to late June 2022

About the Centre for Public Impact (CPI)

CPI is a not-for-profit founded by the Boston Consulting Group. ​​We work with governments, public servants and other changemakers to reimagine government, and turn ideas into action, so that government works for everyone.

We are a small organisation, and just over seven years old, but already our global footprint is expansive and we partner with some of the biggest names in government, academia and public sector innovation in the world. As well as the ANZ team, we have a Europe team (formerly UK team), a North America team, and a very new team (of one) in India. We are all supported by the Global Hub team who provide operational and communication support across the regions.

Our values: 

• courageous - we have the courage to speak the truth, to challenge without fear and tackle the difficult questions

• respectful - we respect differences, we seek to understand them and we look out for one another

• optimistic - we are positive about what we and governments can do for our societies

• inclusive - we are non partisan, we work together and seek ideas and solutions across the divides

To advance our purpose of reimagining government so that it works for everyone, CPI seeks to attract and support a diversity of backgrounds, experience, talent and thought. For this reason, we encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes candidates that have previously found it hard to be considered for other positions on the basis of their qualifications, disabilities, personal background or life events. If you would like to apply for the position but see a barrier to joining us, please do apply and we will work with you to find a solution. You can also read our full Diversity Equity and Inclusion Policy here.

About the ANZ team

The ANZ team was established in March of 2020. The current team is made up of Thea Snow, Keira Lowther, David Murikumthara and Alli Edwards.

Over the two years, the CPI ANZ team has been working to build a presence, develop strong relationships, and secure a pipeline of work in ANZ. We have an exciting and busy year ahead, and are looking for a new member to join our team as David says goodbye to CPI at the end of May. The current team are all Melbourne-based, but we are looking for candidates to join us from anywhere across Australia. 

Because we are very much still in start-up mode, we need someone who is willing to work across the full spectrum of tasks - from administrative work to blue-sky thinking. We are experimental in how we work, and seek to reflect the beliefs, values and principles set in our vision for government in how we organise ourselves as a team. This means (amongst other things) adopting a “tight on values, loose on delivery” approach to our work; working as a team to collectively set our vision and priorities; and thinking hard about who makes which decisions, and why - we don’t default to “decision-making from the top”.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Associate in the CPI ANZ team, you’ll be working closely with the rest of the team, spreading your time across research, thought leadership, programs and team building. Our work at CPI is a blend of thinking and doing - we spend part of our time developing and sharing new ideas, and part of our time working with partner organisations to apply these ideas in practice. If you want to get a better sense of what we do, you can visit our CPI ANZ landing page.

Senior Associates across all CPI Regional teams are expected to:

• Independently hold and manage strong and trusting partner relationships

• Lead discrete projects and/or owns workstreams of larger projects and develop high quality deliverables

• Drive analytical and intellectual depth in work products and proactively share our work with broader CPI teams

• Identify and proactively propose ideas around how we can work together more effectively as a team

We expect applicants for this role will have 3+ years work experience.

The person we’re looking for will

• Be passionate about CPI’s vision for reimagining government

• Have a solid understanding of how government works

• Be comfortable contributing to and leading research projects, running programs, as well as projects which incorporate both research and programmatic elements (which most do!)

• Have strong written and communication skills

• Have excellent interpersonal skills, including feeling confident building new relationships

• Have strong organisational skills and experience with balancing competing priorities

• Be willing to take initiative and work autonomously

• Be comfortable with ambiguity and the complexity of our work, where anything is possible but not always known in advance

• Feel excited about joining an international organisation and be willing to make the effort needed to build relationships and stay connected with colleagues in different timezones

• Be curious and eager to learn

• Be willing to stretch beyond the comfort zone to the growth zone

• Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and in ways which look quite different to a 9am-5pm style of job

• Have excellent written and communication skills

• Feel excited about the idea of working in startup environment and with a very small team

• Be committed to exploring and experimenting with new ways of working as a team, even if this sometimes feels a bit confusing!

We look forward to receiving your application.  If you have any questions about this position or for information, please contact recruitment@centreforpublicimpact.org.