At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a specialist team to enhance participant safeguarding and risk response.
- Company: Join a growing Federal Government agency focused on operational excellence.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid work, competitive pay, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working arrangements and a positive workplace culture.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the lives of Australians living with disability.
- Qualifications: Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills required.
The predicted salary is between 100000 - 110000 $ per year.
Reasons to Apply - At a Glance
- An opportunity to lead a specialist team supporting participant safeguarding and risk response.
- Contribute to meaningful service delivery outcomes within a major Federal Government agency.
- Join a growing Federal Government agency with a strong focus on operational excellence and career development.
- Enjoy flexibility and stability with a hybrid working model, competitive daily rate, and potential for extension or permanency.
Your New Company
This Federal Government agency delivers a national support system for Australians living with disability, funding essential services tailored to individual needs and supporting participants to achieve their goals. This opportunity sits within a specialist safeguarding function focused on strengthening the agency's response to participant risk and delivering consistent, participant-centred outcomes.
Your New Role
You will be responsible for:
- Lead a high-performing safeguarding team, overseeing workflow, capacity, performance and the prioritisation of advice and risk assessment requests.
- Provide strategic advice and guidance on complex safeguarding matters, emerging participant risks and sensitive or high-risk cases.
- Build strong relationships across operational teams, senior executives and key stakeholders, escalating critical issues and providing clear, considered advice where required.
- Use data, reporting and management insights to monitor performance, identify emerging risks and support informed decision-making.
- Lead continuous improvement across safeguarding operations, including strengthening guidance, procedures, governance frameworks and overall organisational capability.
What You Will Need to Succeed
The successful applicant will demonstrate:
- Strong leadership experience delivering complex operational or service delivery outcomes, including workforce planning, workflow allocation, performance management and prioritisation.
- Proven ability to provide direction and exercise sound judgement across complex, sensitive or high-risk matters, working independently to drive outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing and negotiation skills, with experience working effectively across operational, senior management and executive levels.
- Demonstrated experience leading continuous improvement, business improvement or organisational change within complex environments.
- Excellent written and analytical capability, with experience using data and reporting to monitor performance, identify improvement opportunities and prepare strategic advice, guidance and executive-level materials.
The Logistics
- Contract initially through until December 31st, 2027
- Hybrid working arrangement.
- Daily rate of $602.55 per day + super.
- Opportunities in Robina, QLD.
- Australian Citizenship is required.
What You'll Get in Return
- An opportunity to progress your career with a large Federal Government agency.
- Work-from-home flexibility.
- A positive and open working culture.
- Weekly pay cycle.
- Online timesheet submission and approval.
- Nominated superannuation fund.
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