Position Summary:

We are looking for a passionate and gifted Financial Accountant to join our growing team. We have four focuses across Church, Community, Business and Kingdom and this role will be pivotal is helping us to continue to grow and ensuring financial due diligence across everything we do.

You will be the lead person responsible for all areas of finance both internally and externally reporting to both Melbourne leadership and Board as well as New Zealand finance team from a governance perspective.

The Role:

The role will be responsible for but not limited to the following duties:

• Administration of accounts receivable including accurate reporting of tithe, Expansion and other income
• Processing of all payments according to policies and procedures including maintaining credit card reconciliations
• Coordinate payroll function including ensuring accurate records are maintained
• Management accounting including monthly management accounts and month end processing, monthly meetings with budget owners, annual budgeting and continual reforecasting
• External reporting requirements such as BAS, Super and annual audited financial statements
• Assistance of finance expertise in relation to current and future projects such as the Sims St building purchase and renovation.

You:

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, proactive, values detail, proficient in multi tasking, committed to integrity and stewardship and a team player with a Kingdom spirit.

Experience / Skills Required:

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting or similar (preferred)
• CPA or CA qualification is favoured, but is not required
• 2+ years experience working in a similar role or in an accounting or advisory business. Training and support will be provided for the right candidate
• Familiar with Xero and Workday Adaptive (preferred)
• Strong Excel capability

You may not meet all the criteria for this role but if you are teachable and willing to learn we would love to hear from you! 

Location: LIFE Melbourne (North Melbourne, VIC)

Work type: Permanent Full Time (5days)

What to expect:

After you have applied we will review your application and if you are shortlisted, you will be contacted by the hiring manager and invited for an interview.

If you have any questions, please email jobs@lifeau.org

Position Summary:

We are looking for a vibrant and creative person to join our team as a Content Creator. You will need to have basic experience/knowledge in graphic design and social media management.

The Role:

As the Church Content Creator you are the champion of LIFE’s online and social presence. You will be a digital storyteller using visual (video + still), written and experiential elements to influence the perception of LIFE’s brand and events, ultimately to serve the vision of impacting our generation with the reality of Jesus.

In this role, you and your creativity will be instrumental in shaping and challenging the perspective of church outside our four walls. Your ideas will also help to encourage and empower our church congregation to understand their purpose and call in life (and LIFE!).

Your day-to-day work will include concepting, curating, producing and implementing content for all social channels. This role will be a part of the team that serves as the public-facing voice of our brand, and will create authentic 1:1 engagements with an online community. Often, you will be the first touch point for people curious about LIFE, even before they step foot in the carpark, and we all know that first impressions count!

You:

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, proactive, flexible, be a team player with a collaborative spirit and know instinctively what engages people in this ever-changing digital world. We are looking for someone who:

• Keeps on the leading edge of cultural, industry and tech trends in order to create content that people want to engage with.
• Has an excellent command of English and pride yourself on excellence in writing, even when typing on your phone.
• Is fluent in the language of gifs, memes, emojis and whatever is #trending.
• Is driven by a strong creative/innovation instinct.
• Is ideally proficient in graphic design.
• Is a people-person and knows how to rally people around you to strengthen your weaknesses.
• Is ideally proficient in photography

Key responsibilities Include

• Content strategy input
• Plan & create engaging content for our social channels
• Basic design and video editing
• Write highly engaging and relevant social copy
• Capturing custom content at LIFE events (video and still) and independently edit content for social channels (with opportunity to engage volunteer teams)
• Monitor engagement to provide actionable insights that inform strategy and improve performance.
• Engaging volunteer teams

You may not meet all the criteria for this role but if you are teachable and willing to learn we would love to hear from you!

Location: LIFE Melbourne (North Melbourne, VIC)

Work type: Permanent Part Time (2days)

What to expect:

After you have applied, you will receive an email acknowledging your application. We will review your application and if you are shortlisted, you will be contacted by the hiring manager and invited for an interview.

If you have any questions, please email jobs@lifeau.org

Position Summary:

We are looking for a passionate and community driven person to join our team as the Christmas Box Project Manager / Community Coordinator.

The Role:

Your day-to-day work will include planning and executing the Christmas Box project across all of Australia with a larger focus in the second half of the year. This will involve meeting with current and potential sponsors, sourcing product and goods-in-kind and managing the logistics. You will also lead a great volunteer team to enable successful packing days across Australian packing locations. These packing days literally bring hope and help to tens of thousands of people annually.

Along with this, you will work alongside community initiative leaders, supporting them in running their initiatives, helping them to find solutions to their challenges and gathering information to compile a monthly and annual community impact report.

You:

The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, a great team player who loves a challenge and has a big can-do spirit.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a heartbeat for enriching the community and enabling the church to bring practical help and hope to people in need from all walks of life.
• Has experience and knowledge in managing and outworking large-scale projects and is quick to take ownership and problem solve.
• Is driven by a strong management/organisational instinct, thrives under pressure and can juggle many moving parts.
• Has strength in building relationships and forming valued networks with both corporate partnerships and community agencies.
• Is a people-person and thrives on engaging and empowering others to be a part of the team to enable continual increase in the community care we will provide.

Key responsibilities Include

• Project management for the Christmas Box Australia Initiative
• Relationship building with corporate sponsors, community partnerships
• Providing support to weekly/monthly community initiatives and the team leaders.
• Coordinating monthly and annual community impact reports.

You may not meet all the criteria for this role but if you are teachable and willing to learn we would love to hear from you!

Location: LIFE Melbourne

Work type: Permanent Part Time (3days)

What to expect:

After you have applied, you will receive an email acknowledging your application. We will review your application and if you are shortlisted, you will be contacted by the hiring manager and invited for an interview.

If you have any questions, please email jobs@lifeau.org