How to become a Consultant: Introduction to Personal Consultancies at ANU

How to become a Consultant: Introduction to Personal Consultancies at ANU

Are you an ANU Academic thinking of becoming a consultant and want to learn how to improve your proposals, prepare budgets and more?

By ANU Enterprise

Date and time

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 1 hour

This information session for Australian National University (ANU) staff provides an introduction to what is involved in becoming a consultant, how to professionally run personal consultancies under the University’s Paid Outside Work Policy, and how ANU Enterprise can support you.

Join us for this information session and learn about:

• Who can undertake consultancy and how to work with ANU Enterprise

• What makes a successful proposal

• The support ANU Enterprise can give you, including on contracts, project management, finance, and insurance

• Structure of your operations: sole trader, partnership, company, trust and more

• Taxation and regulatory processes

• Insurances and obligations: superannuation, workers compensation, professional indemnity insurance, public liability, and travel

• The approvals process for budgets and registration

• Fees and costing for your project; and

• Now that you’ve got the gig – how to deliver it.

Attendees that utilise ANU Enterprise training are under no obligation to use ANU Enterprise in the delivery of their consultancy service.

This FREE event will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be added shortly.


Who should attend?

This event is for ANU academic staff who have little or no consultancy experience and are interested in becoming a consultant. Use your ANU email address (first.last@anu.edu.au) to register.

The event is also relevant for staff who have prior experience in 52-Day Rule consultancies. The presentation will cover how, when, and where to notify ANU of your consultancy pre-existing arrangements and information on how and where ANU Enterprise can support future consultancies.

Date and times

This event will take place on Thursday 25 Jul 2024, from 3:00 to 4:00 pm AEDT (1 hour)

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Speakers: Lucy Imeson | Georgia Kendall | Jennifer Burgess

Further information

This event is the third in a series of four information sessions run by ANU Enterprise. Other events we run include:

Managing Projects with Industry and Government (ANU Event) 17 Oct 2024

Details to be added soonfrom

Introduction to Professional Learning and Executive Education (ANU Event) Feb 2025

Details to be added soon

Preparing Competitive Tenders for Industry and Government (ANU Event) May 2025

Details to be added soon

How to become a Consultant: Introduction to Personal Consultancies (ANU Event) Jul 2024

Details to be added soon

Organised by

ANU Enterprise works behind the scenes to maximise the impact of research findings of the Australian National University, on the world.

We enable researchers to generate and deliver consulting, contract research and executive education projects.

For example, we work with industry and government, by providing business development and project management support services for researchers.

Above all, our services enable researchers to focus on their area of expertise and the delivery of societal impact.