Ready to make an impact?
If you get genuine fulfilment from helping your team thrive and love making things happen, join the 54 Reasons Western Australian Leadership Team. We welcome people from all diverse backgrounds.
54 reasons is Australia’s leading child rights organisation – no ordinary not-for-profit.
Proudly part of the Save the Children Australia Group and global movement, we’re here to make sure that children and young people have their rights met and thrive, in all their diversity.
With the child’s voice at the centre, we provide quality services to children and their caregivers in every state and territory, and across regions, remote areas and capital cities.
A place to make a difference:
In this permanent, part time (.8 FTE), you’ll work as a part of our Leadership team in Perth to help us create lasting change for children everywhere.
You will make a difference by:
- Managing key projects/ initiatives that help support metro and regional teams
- Providing high level support to the State Director and WA Leadership Team, including supporting the reporting internally and to our funders
- Collaborating with Save The Children group functional teams to strengthen and streamline key operational processes such as project implementation planning, fleet management, property management, contract compliance reporting and operational risk management.
- Providing inspiring leadership to a small administration team
- In consultation with the functional Senior Management Team, strengthen, streamline and design effective processes ensuring compliance and risk management and response.
- Collaborate with the state leadership team, Finance and group operations teams to ensure state-based compliance and adherence to organisational process and policy.
- In consultation with the state leadership team ensure effective processes are in place to identify, manage, monitor and support response to risks to program /service delivery, quality, staff well-being and Child Safeguarding
A place to feel valued:
We're looking for a confident, adaptable, and highly organised operations professional who thrives in a coordination and leadership role. You bring demonstrated experience in program delivery, operations, or contract management, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities across remote and diverse working environments will be invaluable.
This role requires:
Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential, as is the natural ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. We need someone who is tech savvy, detail-oriented, and self-motivated. A proactive problem-solver who takes ownership and accountability and can navigate complexity with curiosity and calm.
As the operational lynchpin for our WA team, you are equally comfortable providing high-level support to senior leadership as you are inspiring and guiding a small administration team, all while driving process improvement, compliance, and risk management across the organisation.
A place to belong:
At 54 reasons, we invest in the development and wellbeing of our people. Our workforce is approximately 600 people strong, and proudly diverse, whether in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, cultures and beliefs.
It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:
- Generous salary package plus full salary packaging benefits –
- Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development
- Internal employment and development opportunities
- Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
- Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We have a highly inclusive culture and diverse workforce reflecting the communities we serve, allowing you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want!).
Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.
Does this sound like the place for you?
We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.
We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.
Applications Close: Sunday June 14th, 2026. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they come in, so don’t delay in applying!
Position Description: Operations Support Manager
For more information about this position, please contact Amanda Hunt on [email protected]. Or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.
We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure its straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at [email protected]. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.
Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.
If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact [email protected] for further support.
