About the role: Step into a part time role where your strategic thinking and business acumen directly contribute to life-changing outcomes. As our Business Development Manager and Tender Writer, you’ll be at the forefront of securing vital funding and driving initiatives that uplift communities and empower individuals.

What You’ll Do

Shape the Future: Use your insight into strategic direction and business goals to craft winning tender submissions that fuel transformative projects.

Lead with Purpose: Develop clear, concise project mandates, business cases, and plans that bring ideas to life and deliver measurable impact.

Drive Community Change: Your work in Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) and Mental Health will ripple through lives, families, and entire communities.

Own Your Role: Enjoy autonomy, purpose, and the freedom to make meaningful, local change every single day.

Hours and location: The hours are 24 per week and days worked are negotiable. The role is hybrid with options to work from home and in our Binna Burra or Tweed office. The role is funded until 30th June 2026 with potential for extension.

About you: Selection criteria:

Qualifications and checks

1. University level qualifications in a relevant field, e.g., Communications, Marketing, Journalism and/or Public Relations

2. Current driver's licence, a satisfactory Criminal Record Check, Working with Children Check

Professional skills and experience

3. A minimum of two years of experience tender/grant writing following approved processes with set timeframes. Knowledge of NDIS and Community Housing is desirable.

4. Demonstrated experience in successful submission of funding applications and supporting material such as reports, summaries and pitch documents.

5. Technical expertise and familiarity with data analysis, the Microsoft suite and video conferencing applications.

6. Demonstrated partnership building experience

7. Awareness of contemporary community services issues including AOD and mental health and community housing with an understanding of financial terminology.

Find out more: For a position description, see https://www.buttery.org.au/careers/

For any other queries, please contact [email protected]

This role will be remunerated at SCHCDS Level 6-7 ($55-60ph depending on experience) with access to salary packaging to potentially increase your take home pay by another 5k.

How to apply: Please email your resume and cover letter addressing the selection criteria above to [email protected]

In your cover letter, please use each of the selection criteria above as a heading and write a brief paragraph under each one addressing it. Unfortunately, applications that do not address the selection criteria will not be considered.

Applications close: 8th September 2025

Why you’ll love working with us

We support our staff with generous work conditions and benefits - whether its ways to make money go further, a great work culture, or opportunities to develop skills. The Buttery’s reward package includes:

· Flexible Working Solutions: We support your work-life balance with flexible working arrangements. We offer the potential to scale your hours up or down over time.

· Extra Annual Leave: Enjoy two additional weeks of annual leave (pro rata) to spend more time on holiday.

· Career Growth: Explore internal opportunities to transfer and work in other programs.

· Professional Development: Benefit from ongoing training and development opportunities.

· Supportive Environment: Access to our Employee Assistance Program and to external clinical supervision for direct service staff

· Salary Sacrifice Benefits: Increase your take-home pay by 6-12% with ATO-approved incentives, allowing you to allocate up to $15,899 of tax-free salary towards your mortgage, rent, loans, credit card, or school fees.

· Meal and Accommodation Card: Receive a $2,650 card for meals and accommodation.

· Convenient Packaging Options: Package your costs for smartwatches, EarPods, professional memberships or a novated vehicle lease.

About us: The Buttery is a not-for-profit charitable organisation established in 1973.Through residential and community-based programs, we specialise in the treatment of alcohol and other drug dependence and mental health conditions. Our programs are evidence-based, best-practice and informed by the latest research into recovery. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we consistently work to improve the lives of the people we support. We operate from Tweed Heads to Port Macquarie across Bundjalung, Githabul, Gumbaynggirr, Yaegl, Dunghutti and Birpai lands.

The Buttery recognises the benefits that diversity and inclusion bring, and encourages people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and CALD and LGBTIQASB+ community members are encouraged to apply. We are proud to have active RAP and Rainbow groups.