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We are a growing team, and from time to time that means that we are looking for new people to join us.

If you are as passionate about remote, rural and regional communities as we are, and ideally have some experience of working with either not-for-profits or philanthropy, we’d love to hear from you.

As vacancies arise, we will add them here, but please feel free to get in touch.

Want to know more?

Contact Anna Palmer on 03 5430 2399.

Current Vacancies

FRRR Outback Advisory Board Members

Are you keen to help shape philanthropy and drive change in remote and outback Australia?

FRRR is seeking expressions of interest from those passionate about remote and outback Australia to join our new Outback Advisory Board. FRRR’s vision is for a vibrant, resilient and revitalised remote, rural and regional Australia. FRRR provides funding and capacity building support at the hyper-local level nation-wide. For 25 years, FRRR has developed unique reach, relationships, networks, and know-how to align funding, big and small, to community-led solutions that build resilience and long-term viability and vitality of smaller remote, rural, and regional communities across Australia. Since 2000, FRRR has provided nearly $200M to support more than 15,000 projects.

As a national organisation headquartered in central Victoria, FRRR is conscious that playing a valuable and meaningful role in Remote and Outback Australia will only be successful if informed, connected, and built from diverse on-ground perspective and established strong relationships. To that end, and building on the legacy of the Outback Alliance, the FRRR Board is seeking to establish an Advisory Board to be chaired by a FRRR Director and comprise up to ten highly respected, politically neutral, and suitably networked individuals with expertise, lived experience and a passion for advancing thriving and connected communities in Remote and Outback Australia.

Convening at least four times a year, the new Outback Advisory Board’s role will be to provide a Remote and Outback lens to FRRR’s work. It will be supported by established expertise and networks to enable FRRR to work more deeply and with greater insight into Outback contexts, to support the extension of FRRR’s place-based model to Remote regions, and to engage philanthropy, corporate, and government stakeholders in tailored support for Remote and Outback communities.

Our aim is to have a Board that represents a diverse range of skills and experience. We are seeking Expressions of Interest from people who understand Remote and Outback communities, have extensive experience in working with local organisations and community development/place-based work, and who can bring a national perspective as well as local knowledge; and brings skills and experience in one or more of the following:

Building equity: which could include experience working to address social disadvantage, disaster preparedness and response, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and First Nations communities in food and water security, physical and mental health, housing, aged care and human services;
Education: particularly in the context of Remote and Outback Australia
Remote and Outback economic, social and/or cultural development
Environment: which could include climate change initiatives, managing Country, sustainable agriculture and energy transition;
Remote and Outback policy, regional development and/or social impact;
First Nations leadership and cultural governance;
Infrastructure that supports connectivity of Remote and Outback communities, including transport, digital, and community infrastructure;
Agriculture; and
Remote Leadership.

Membership of the Board is a voluntary position, but our aim is to have diversity of membership so FRRR will consider supporting successful applicants to address barriers to participation.

Location: Online / Remote

Work type: Part-Time (Meeting preparation and attendance 2-6 times per year)

Salary type: Voluntary

Position description:

Outback Advisory Board Member

For further information or to discuss your expression of interest contact Jill Karena, Head of Granting on 0407 427 358 or email j.karena@frrr.org.au.

Expressions of Interest via the nomination form are open until COB Friday 11 April.

Program Advisory Committee Roles

Call for Expressions of Interest for IAGP and CLCS Program Advisory Committees.

FRRR is seeking expressions of interest from those passionate about strengthening the social and economic resilience and vitality of remote, rural, and regional communities across Australia to join Program Advisory Committees for In a Good Place and Community Led Climate Solutions.

FRRR’s vision is for a vibrant, resilient and revitalised remote, rural and regional Australia and we do that by providing funding and capacity building support at the hyper-local level nation-wide.

We are expertly assisted by a voluntary Program Advisory Committee that convenes at the conclusion of every grant round (twice per year for IAGP, once per year for CLCS) to consider grant distributions and provide strategic oversight of the program.

Our aim is to have a Committee that brings a diverse range of skills and experience and represents the communities we support and diversity of projects that we fund, so FRRR will consider supporting successful applicants to address barriers to participation if necessary.

In addition to seeking new members who understand community development, and have expertise and experience in remote, rural and regional communities, including a sound understanding of current and future community issues; we are also looking for people with relevant experience and specialist expertise in one or more of the following:

In a Good Place

FRRR’s In a Good Place(IAGP) program has a place focus in supporting localised responses to addressing mental health and wellbeing inequities by creating opportunities through a broad range of community focussed projects to drive positive mental health and wellbeing outcomes for people living in rural, remote and very remote communities.

Mental health, particularly in the application of non-clinical approaches to supporting mental health and wellbeing;
Contemporary Grant making, particularly in philanthropy;
Working with local organisations, which could include Local Government, volunteer organisations/management, Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations and community health/services;
First Nations, being a First Nations person who is passionate about the social and emotional wellbeing of First Nationals people
Project management, which could include community events, community collaborations, and disaster recovery;
Building equity, which could include experience with socially disadvantaged, lived experience of mental ill health, disaster impacted, CALD or First Nations communities, young people; and
Agriculture, having experience working in the agriculture sector, particularly understanding the pressures and demands on farmers and farming communities that impact mental health and wellbeing;

Nominate yourself for the IAGP Program Advisory Committee.

For further information or to discuss your expression of interest contact Jeanice Henderson, IAGP Program Manager on 03 5430 2302 or email j.henderson@frrr.org.au.

Community Led Climate Solutions

FRRR’s Community Led Climate Solutions program supports not-for-profit organisations across remote, rural and regional Australia to drive local climate solutions that reduce emissions through education, engagement and action.

Climate Change, which could include mitigation, adaptation or broader sustainability initiatives;
First Nations, being a First Nations person who is interested in how our communities can lead climate change, mitigation, adaptation, and/or caring for country initiatives;
Agriculture, having experience working in the agriculture sector, particularly where it has intersected with acting on a changing climate;
Energy Transition, which could include work within an organisation to address the energy transition across remote, rural and regional communities.
Community Led Development, which could include volunteer organisations/management, organisations working closely with communities experiencing disadvantage, or organisations that have acted upon opportunities for innovative improvements.

Nominate yourself for the CLCS Program Advisory Committee.

For further information or to discuss your expression of interest contact Sarah Matthee, Climate Solutions Portfolio Lead on 03 5430 2329 or email s.matthee@frrr.org.au.

Further information about these roles can be found in the position descriptions below.