Applications are now open and will close on Monday, 6 March 2023 at 5pm (AEDT).

The successful applicant will be announced via an email to Alumni and post to the RWA Alumni closed Facebook group in March.

What is the Alumni Committee of State Chairs?

The TAS State Chair will be selected by applying through an online application process. Once they are selected, they will be responsible for working with their own small State Committee, made up of Alumni volunteers.

The TAS State Chair will work collaboratively with each of the relevant state/territory agencies.

Please note: You do not have to be TAS Alumni to apply. However, you do need to be living in Tasmania now. 

What are the roles and responsibilities of the Alumni State Chairs?

• Sit on the state/territory selection panel each year to work alongside applicants and provide support along the way.
• Promote the Award and new Alumni initiatives.
• Promote the Rural Women’s Acceleration Grant.
• Drive connections within the Alumni and with other women’s focused programs in each state/territory.
• Help with fostering connections across Award Alumni in their state/territory.
• Help facilitate and organise events for Alumni in their specific state/territory.
• Live and promote program values.

What budget will I have to do this?

Each Rural Women’s Award Committee of State Chairs will be allocated approximately $5,000 in project funds to run learning & development events, workshops, meetings etc. A quarterly plan of how Committees wish to spend this budget needs to be submitted (with itemised costs) and approved by AgriFutures. AgriFutures may increase this amount over time.

What is the time commitment?

• The tenure for each State Chair will be three years.
• State Chairs will be expected to attend Committee meetings, Alumni events, selection panel interviews and State/Territory Announcement.
• State Chairs will also undertake general duties to fulfil the roles and responsibilities.

How will I be remunerated?

Each State Chair will be renumerated with a flat fee of $9,375 + GST per year (paid quarterly) to carry out the roles and responsibilities and for their attendance at the meetings and events. In addition, each State Chair will be required to submit a quarterly activity report. Quarterly activity reports must be submitted before payments will be released.

We envisage this will be approximately 6 hours per month in time commitment, per State Chair.

What travel will be involved?

AgriFutures will cover your travel (fuel, car hire, flights, accommodation, and meals) up to an amount of $2,500 per year to:

• Attend face to face commitments as part of the selection panel including interviews
• Attend State/Territory Announcement
• Attend the face to face half day Committee meetings
• Attend four local Alumni catch ups annually (that have been organised by the State Chair)

Please note: AgriFutures will not reimburse for travel time.

What are we looking for?

• Each State Chair must be a Rural Women’s Award Alumni
• Have capacity to engage with their state/territory government and Rural Women’s Award partner organisations and value add to selection panels and awards ceremonies.
• Have the capacity to build a vibrant local Alumni cohort.
• Someone who sets the bar in terms of behaviours and values.

What is the selection criteria?

In the application form, there are questions around your impact, commitment, and future vision for Alumni at a state/territory level, as well as an endorsement from two Alumni peers.

1. Impact
2. Commitment
3. Future vision
4. Endorsement from two Alumni members from your state/territory.

Previous Rural Women’s Award Alumni Advisory Panel Members are ineligible to apply for a Rural Women’s Award Alumni State Chair position.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate in contacting Sheridan Ingold, Manager, Capacity Building on 0438 921 421 or sheridan.ingold@agrifutures.com.au.

IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

If you need more help using this form, download the Help Guide for Applicants or check out Applicant Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM

On every screen (page of the form) you will find a Form Navigation contents box, this links directly to every page of the application. Click the link to jump directly to the page you want.

You can also click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the application.

SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.

If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.

Hint: also check the email hasn't landed in your spam or junk email folder.

ATTACHMENTS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTS

You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple, but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a storage device.

You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.