NISS Program Implementation & Support Lead. 12mth - VIC / NSW

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

This position is only open to all internal employees, so we strongly encourage any current employees who are interested to apply

The purpose of the NISS Program Implementation and Support Lead position is to project manage key strategic project/s across NISS, while undertaking actions and activities to progress towards project completion. The position is responsible for delivering these projects in an efficient and effective manner, achieving the outcomes required in consultation with key stakeholders to enhance the quality of client services and outcomes.

This position is being offered as 12 months, max-term position and can be based at our offices in Sunshine, VIC or Parramatta, NSW.

Key Responsibilities

• Successfully manage the development, planning, execution and delivery of nominated projects in NISS utilising project management systems, tools and change management frameworks
• Successfully manage the overall delivery and implementation of the projects through contribution to and/or undertaking actions and activities to ensure the successful implementation and overall delivery of the project
• Monitor, review and improve models, toolkits, and templates to address Governance, Reporting, Deployment Management, and overall program/project management best practices in support of an agile environment and approach. 
• Provide NISS program/project management coaching and mentoring to NISS staff
• Actively contribute to discussions to create, explore, improve, and implement ideas, projects and plans, for example Post Implementation Reviews

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in Human Services, Business, Project Management, or similar areas
• Demonstrated end-to-end project management experience in high demand environments
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of the operational environment in which the role is within or supports
• Demonstrated experience in successfully delivering positive project outcomes and engaging stakeholders
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders including executives, staff at all levels, government agencies or other external groups
• Strong business and financial acumen and the ability to synthesis large amounts of complex information quickly into simple to understand messages
• Solid understanding of risk management principles

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

• An attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful applicant, including a mobile phone, car allowance.
• Salary packaging tax benefits, meal entertainment benefit.
• Growing organisation with great career opportunities.
• Monthly RDO.

How to Express your Interest

Please note: To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or hold a valid medical exemption certificate.  You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

Send us your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact sadna.patelthomas@lwb.org.au.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. Applications will close at midnight 19th March 2024.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)