**Mandatory: Australian Citizenship required to work within Federal Government**
Our
**Federal Government** client is seeking to engage in multiple
**APS5 Program Support **for an 18-month assignment with potential extension in Sunshine or Geelong.
**About the Team**
The
**Younger People in Residential Aged Care (YPIRAC)** team is part of the newly formed YPIRAC/Hospital Interface Branch. The YPIRAC team provides specialised support for people with disability who are living in, or at risk of permanently entering aged care facilities. The team play a key role in the implementation of the government's YPIRAC Strategy for participants aged under 65 years.
**About the Role**
The
**APS5 Program Support Officer **is a team membership position that may have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across a range of activities.
**Responsibilities may include but are not limited to**:
- Providing technical expertise across a range of programs or activities including systems and people performance, financial, staff lifecycle, knowledge and change management to contribute to business unit outcomes.
- Assisting with maintaining process and documentation relating to service delivery, ensuring alignment to legislation and policy, and utilising change and risk management principles to ensure impacts are communicated to relevant parties.
- Coordinating and analysing data and written information for the purposes of drafting high level internal and external communications including reports, advice, presentations and communications for Ministerial, Parliamentary and executive responses.
- Assisting with the collation and audits of workforce planning data, reporting on staff lifecycle and confirming against financial, systems and people performance data.
**Key skills required for role/s**:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong engagement with multiple stakeholders.
- Organisation and time management.
- Experience in the disability, health or aged care sectors.
**Desirable skills to have for the role/s**:
- Case management experience
**What's on Offer?**
- Position located in Sunshine or Geelong
- APS5 $53.63/ph + super
- Temporary contract for 18 months, with possibility to extend
- Standard Hours of work - Monday to Friday, 8:30 am till 5:00 pm
It is highly desirable that the successful applicant understand or lived experience in the field of disability.