Scholarships & Tour Lead

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We seek a full-time Scholarships and Tours Lead to continue to grow our dynamic, ground breaking JMF football (soccer) program, part of the Nangala Project. If you are a solutions-driven professional who would like to use your exceptional logistics and organisational skills to make a difference in the lives of talented young Aboriginal athletes, we’d love to hear from you. We are open to your career background to date, whether teaching, sports administration or any other preparatory role.   

JMF commenced its Scholarship Program in 2015, with one student, and has since expanded it to six.  The program is about creating opportunities for talented young elite footballers who have a dream to pursue both their education and football in Sydney. It is a radically life changing opportunity for those talented young footballers in our program who show exceptional sporting ability. Our partner schools are Westfield Sports High School, SCEGGS Darlinghurst, Waverley College and St Catherine’s.

Feeding into the scholarship program, to create a representative pathway, is our touring program for hundreds of grassroots JMF players from remote Australia.

The scholarships role is a logistics, communications and pastoral care role in essence. It requires you to support the JMF scholarship holders, their families back home in the NT, and their Sydney host families and schools, football clubs, learning and wellbeing support in relation to each scholarship child’s situation. The position calls for a commitment to the social equity aims of JMF. You’ll need a mature approach with strong interpersonal skills and project co-ordination capability, be self-assured, and take a systemised approach to building and using processes. You will be clear and proactive in verbal and written communication. Applying governance infrastructure with diligent attention to detail is crucial. It is necessary to have the ability to think laterally to find solutions to the fluid and dynamic environment that our resilient remote region Aboriginal children need to navigate, with a move so far from home.  

The tours role focuses on logistics support to in-community coaches and the JMF Program Manager for intrastate, interstate and overseas competition, training or immersion play, of teams of our young players. This part of the role needs a very high level of attention to detail and a well-structured, methodical approach to logistics. An intermediate level of financial literacy is required.   

Experience and qualifications

• A minimum of four years in an administrative or operational position, with excellent organisational skills in the coordination of multiple deliverables with competing deadlines.
• Systems–orientated with advanced proficiency in MS Office on Mac platform, primarily Excel and Word. 
• Confidence in dealing proactively with internal and external stakeholders and supporting the JMF Program Manager to build relationships with networks such as schools and sports bodies.
• Effective and proactive written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail orientated with a very high level of accuracy and capable of working autonomously.
• Proven experience in dealing with challenging situations in a professional and calm manner.
• Ability to work cohesively within a small team environment. 
• A commitment to high quality work and warm, helpful stakeholder relations.
• Proficient use of databases. Experience in Salesforce desirable but not mandatory.
• Experience and interest in:
  • football preferred.
  • elite or professional sport desirable but not mandatory.
  • working with/coaching young athletes helpful.
  • learning quickly about remote region programs and communities essential, particularly in relation to children.

Please note a working with children check and driving license is essential for this position.

Duties include:

• Maintain the schedule of scholarship program critical points of contact for host families, home families, schools and children to source/provide support and advice.
• Respond in a proactive and timely manner to host families, home families, schools and children to source/provide support and advice.
• Manage liaison between Sydney and NT regarding families and schools in NT to ensure all paperwork is completed and returned to Sydney in a timely manner.
• Liaise with Sydney schools for enrolment, progress and trouble shooting.
• Provide support to JMF Program Manager for the strategic development of JMF elite player pathways through scholarships and tours.
• Run a social calendar for host families and players to support the cohort
• Address and resolve issues that impact best practice.
• Source/advertise/screen for host families.
• Review host family homes and meet with prospective families to create rapport and to outline the project.
• Take children for enrolments, uniforms and orientation at school, and other locations as necessary.
• Assist with the drafting of Scholarships and Tours collateral.
• Establish and manage project spreadsheets and databases.
• Be efficient and structured in relation to file management of all collateral on central server.
• Contribute to the creation of social media calendar.
• Coordinate updates to program websites and social media platforms.
• Liaise with Abstudy to book travel; prepare itineraries and manage logistics as required.
• Ad hoc duties as required.

You will be a positive individual with excellent and proactive verbal and written communication skills. You will be someone who maintains the highest ethics, integrity and professionalism, and has a commitment to the team in all aspects of delivery. You will be joining a dynamic, committed group of people in Sydney and the Northern Territory, who share an authentic team player mindset. 

We are located in a light and airy contemporary office in Crows Nest Sydney, close to public transport and all amenities

For more information please visit our website www.jmf.org.au or contact our Recruitment Associate at [email protected] or 0404 286 990