Senior Consultant / Project Manager – Higher Education

• Reports to Principal Consultant, Digital Implementation
• Client-facing role
• Excellent English (essential)
• Philippines-based, corporate leadership background preferred
• Critical thinker with proven problem-solving ability


About the role

We are looking for someone to join our International Team as a Senior Consultant / Project Manager, Higher Education for our client projects. In this role, you’ll collaborate with team members and management to engage with clients, stakeholders, and partners, driving project activities from setup through completion, particularly in our Digital Transformation line of business.

Each project offers unique challenges, providing opportunities to develop your skills and gain hands-on experience. You will be proficient at finding, gathering and presenting information with a level of autonomy, intellect and problem-solving ability.
For the right candidate, this role offers significant growth potential, making it an exciting opportunity to contribute to and lead impactful projects in the education sector. This is a full-time, role based in the Philippines and can be performed from a home office. Reliable internet connection, strong English proficiency (written and verbal), and experience in stakeholder liaison, critical thinking and project management/coordination are vital for performing this role.

Some of the reasons why you should be a member of the DVE Team:
• Full-time, long-term contract
• Ability to work from home and not have to commute to and from work
• Experience working with an Australian company
• Challenging and rewarding, with opportunities to progress and grow your role and career
• Work with a great team that supports you.
• HMO and leave benefits
• Opportunity to receive periodic coaching from senior team members

To be successful in this role, you need to be:
• Experienced in driving and managing the end-to-end projects with hard deadliness ensuring timely and successful submissions.
• Fluent in English as you will be the primary point of contact for clients, partners, and coordinating the work with our internal team. You should be able to effectively communicate requirements, timelines, etc. Experience in collaborating with clients and partners to achieve project goals is important
• Organised and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You need to ensure that activities are tracking to plan and schedules, and deliverables are submitted on time without compromising quality.
• Demonstrated success in managing mid-to-large projects, with a proven ability to deliver on-time and within scope.
• Able to roll their sleeves up and do the leg work in key project activities.


Other Requirements:

• A modern computer with minimum specs: i5 processor or equivalent, 8GB RAM (ideally 16GB), 250GB HD and must support and capable of running software used by DVE including Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Visio
• Fibre, DSL or Cable internet as your main internet connection (stable) with internet speed of at least 150Mbps
• A backup 4G/LTE/5G internet connection (could be a Wi-Fi dongle or pocket Wi-Fi)
• Conducive work environment and home office setup
• Chrome browser, Adobe Acrobat reader
• Genuine Windows OS installation - some internal software we use do not work with MacOS
• UPS/backup generator (preferred)


About DVE Solutions

DVE Business Solutions is a growing consulting company with a difference, led by South Australia Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year Jo Schneider. DVE clients are predominantly in the education sector with Universities and Higher Ed providers being core focus. With our communicative and collaborative methodology, DVE drives positive change that makes a difference in the areas of People, Process, Structure and Technology.

We work every day to change education from the inside out, and our work is underpinned by our core values - Work as OneTeam; Practice what we preach; Maintain client focus and; Enjoy what we do.