Title:  Contract Administrator

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• Be a part of shaping Australia's Energy Future! 

When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together, making Real. Progress

At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.
 

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.

This role will see you working closely with the Project and Program Delivery (Distribution) team providing commercial and contract management support in terms of contract preparation and execution, risk management, commercial analysis, and contract performance reporting to drive commercial contract management of outsourced delivery partners.

Additionally, the role supports the formulation of fit-for-purpose commercial strategies and management tools, risk matrices, process as well as contract governance frameworks. To achieve this, the incumbent in this role will use his/her continuous improvement mindset to support the Manager Contracts and Controls, Contracts Lead, Projects & Program Leadership Team, and Project Managers to ensure successful delivery of planned project milestones within Works Management.

With a Hybrid split of WFH and office based (Malvern and Southbank), this role is part of the Contracts team.

This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Ensure compliance through actively engaging with stakeholders and maintain awareness of relevant legislation, laws, regulations, standards, codes and Ausnet policies and procedures.
• Influence continuous improvement and positive outcomes so the contributions are viewed as adding value. 
• Enable accelerated culture change, fostering care, curiosity and connection through a tangible and measurable “Listen, Learn and Act” approach to employee feedback that aligns with the values of Ausnet. 
• Build the foundations required to move at pace by looking beyond what we do today and testing new ways of doing things
• Be adaptive to changes and innovations in AusNet’s processes and the digital landscape that can help us grow our network and support AusNet’s purpose
• Liaising with procurement and legal teams for sign off of project contracts
• Analysis of risk of any major contracts and implement measures to mitigate these such that it will enhance the project delivery performance
• Support the delivery of the projects monthly performance report, including the measurements, insights and commentary of the contract Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
• Provide strong consultation and stakeholder management skills

You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

• Strong consultation and stakeholder management skills
• Minimum of 3 years in contract management and administration, commercial and analytical work experience in a large corporate including contract/agreement negotiation is preferable
• Knowledge in the application of commercial and construction contract law and experience in contract drafting is preferable
• Advanced excel skills - pivot tables, charts and data manipulation
• Previous reporting creation experience
• Working experience with SAP, ARIBA and other BI tools for analysis (nice to have)

A real place to belong. 

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.  

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.