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Why you might love this opp:

The team at Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) is reshaping who leads - and how leadership is practised - across Australia’s climate and environmental movements. For nearly a decade, WELA has backed women and gender-diverse changemakers to build the confidence, capability, networks and support to drive meaningful change in their communities. Grounded in feminist leadership and environmental justice, WELA exists because the climate crisis is also a leadership challenge.

📅 Your week: Together with the team, you’re looking ahead - shaping priorities, aligning effort and creating clarity. One day, you’re reviewing program insights and cohort feedback, coaching the team to think critically about what’s needed next - whether that’s refining delivery, bringing in new expertise or shifting resources where they’ll have the greatest leverage. Another, you’re nurturing key partnerships and taking meetings to catalyse new ones. Throughout, you push a quick exec update out on income targets, while checking in with the Comms team because you know trust, ecosystem presence and shared purpose are what turn early conversations into meaningful long-term partnerships and org sustainability. 

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🕶️ Your style: You’re the kind of person who works with intention. You listen carefully, your genuine curiosity helps you ask great questions, and you’re comfortable pausing to reflect before shifting course. You’d rather make a quick phone call than let a Slack or email thread turn into a Reddit forum, and you enjoy adapting your communication for different moments - whether it’s a board report, partner pitch or 1:1 check-in. When challenges arise, you naturally look for the solutions that help the puzzle come together again, and you’re confident holding accountability while empowering those around you. 

💬 Inside WELA: This is a thoughtful, values-driven team with big ambition and deep integrity. The work is relational, nuanced and high trust, with a genuine commitment to flexible, family-friendly and sustainable ways of working. As a fully remote team, WELA is intentional about building a culture where collaboration and self-accountability co-exist, and where people feel supported, challenged and equipped to do their best work. The team cares deeply not just about what is delivered, but how people lead, work and grow together over time.

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💡 What you bring: You may have built the skills and experience for this role across a range of settings - from non-profit organisations, social enterprise, leadership development, education and training or other purpose-led environments. What matters is that you understand systems change, are values aligned and bring a balance of three things: strong people leadership, great organisational judgement and a deep understanding of leadership development. Your operational skills help create the conditions that sustainable organisational growth requires - balancing team performance, program quality, financial oversight, partnership development and revenue growth.