**$104,000 + super + not for profit salary packaging**:
- **Permanent - Full Time**:
- **Location**: Mount Barker or Victor Harbor, SA**:
- **Make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australians in need**
**Life at Mission Australia**
When you join the team at Mission Australia, you become part of a community who are determined to end homelessness and ensure people in need can thrive. United by our Christian purpose and values, we stand together with anyone who needs us, for as long as they need us. Find out more about us and our purpose.
**The NDIS**
**Your Opportunity**
Covering the Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu Peninsula, you will be responsible for planning, leading, managing, and developing a service delivery team to execute high quality and contractually compliant services to a wide range of participants throughout our local communities. This role will offer a level of autonomy and will require a high level of organisational skills, teamwork & collaboration, and you will have experience managing a diverse team.
**Your Key Responsibilities**
- Lead a team of 14-16 Local Area Coordinator’s
- Manage and allocate participant workloads relative to requirements, capacity, and capability.
- Support Service Area Managers with meeting contractual requirements across each of the service areas
- Engage with local communities and develop effective positive stakeholder relationships across the area.
- Provide direct service delivery to clients as required.
- Ongoing development of the service through continuous improvement initiatives
**Requirements for Success**
With a significant background in the disability sector of community services, you will be confident in your team management and assessment processes. Other requirements include:
- Ideally tertiary qualified in Community Services and/or experience in a community services position or similar industry.
- Experience in provision of strengths based/goal based planning, person-centred and information and referral services.
- Demonstrated experience in staff supervision of a service delivery team.
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders
- A personal alignment with the values of Mission Australia Solid administration skills and the ability to prepare reports and documentation.
- The ability to work in a highly regulated environment.
- Experience in budget and financial management
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver service outcomes on time and in compliance with funding requirements
- Full driver license with no restrictions.
Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check, qualifications, and referee checks, and have a clearance to work with children’s card and an NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.
**Our Culture**
Our innovative and inclusive culture will ensure you feel valued at Mission Australia as you help Australians in need and develop in your career.
We’re committed to the safety and wellbeing of each other and the people we serve.
We recognise and respect diversity. So, whoever you are, if you’re skilled and actively support our purpose and values, you would be welcome at Mission Australia.
Find out more about a career with Mission Australia.
**Your Benefits**
To ensure our employees feel valued, empowered, and celebrated, we provide a range of employee benefits including:
- Not-for-profit salary packaging, reducing your tax (details via AccessPay)
- Generous employee discounts with health insurance and major retailers
- Free external, confidential counselling and access to chaplaincy support.
- Professional development & training opportunities
**How To Apply
📌 Program Manager - Adelaide Hills & Fleurieu
🏢 Mission Australia
📍 Mount Barker