**Sport Inclusion Officer**:
Contingent Worker
Closes in 2 weeks
Closes Sun 13 October 2024
Closes
Sun 13 October 2024
Category
Sport and Community Venues
Location
Maroochydore
Type
Contingent Worker
**$85K - $92K Total Remuneration Package (pro-rata)**
**$76K - $81K Base Salary pro-rata **_($45,500)_**
**Location: Sunshine Coast, Queensland**
**Fixed Term - 3 days per week (until November 2026)**
**Applications close: Sunday, 13 October 2023 11:59pm AEST**
**About Sunshine Coast Council**
The Sunshine Coast Council continues to take a lead role in shaping a prosperous future for our community through a vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region - healthy, smart, creative.
Sunshine Coast Council is one of the largest local governments in Australia, serving a community of more than 365,000 residents across an area of approximately 2,291 square kilometres. Council’s 2024-2028 Corporate Plan aims to deliver a strong community, a healthy environment, a resilient economy, service excellence and an outstanding organisation.
This position is employed by Council as part of a program created by Get Skilled Access which assists Australian sporting clubs and schools to be more accessible and inclusive to enable people with disability to have choice and control over where and how they would like to participate in sport.
The position will be supported by Get Skilled Access and required to undertake reporting requirements for both Council and Get Skilled Access.
**About Get Skilled Access**
Get Skilled Access (GSA) was founded in 2016 by multiple Wheelchair Tennis Grand Slam Champion, Paralympian, and former Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott AO.
Our aspiration is inclusion, choice, and control for all people with disability. At GSA, we aim to create a recent generation of disability inclusion that is equitable for all.
**About Sport4All**
The Sport4All (S4A) program helps sporting clubs and schools to be more accessible and inclusive for people with disability. The program is designed and delivered by Get Skilled Access (GSA).
The Sport Inclusion Officer is employed by Sunshine Coast Council and works in close collaboration with Sport4All as part of the Sport Venues and Development Team.
**About you**
The Sport Inclusion Officer will be a person with a disability and/or lived connection to disability who has been involved in sport as a player, volunteer, or administrator, and use their real-life disability experiences and the experiences of their network to build relationships with the clubs and schools which will help them to understand the purpose of Sport4All and the benefits and opportunities the program can bring.
As a Sport Inclusion Officer, you will work within Sunshine Coast Council to connect local sporting clubs and schools with the Sport4All website and resources and support them to complete the Sport4All training program.
You will be trained in the Sport4All program at the beginning of the role, with further training and development offered throughout the employment period.
We are led by the lived experience in all that we do at GSA, and accordingly encourage people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and all other intersections with the disability community to apply.
To be successful in this role, you will have;
- Demonstrated experience in community sport as a player, volunteer, or administrator.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage across a range of audiences using a range of mediums, to assist in building effective working relationships and networks relevant to the role.
- Ability to connect with Grassroots Sporting Club, associations, state and national sporting bodies.
- Ability to connect with teachers, school leadership, and other school staff.
- Ability to plan your trips and travel around the local community, including to different schools and sporting clubs, centres, grounds or programs etc.
- Strong time management, work prioritisation and organisation skills with demonstrated ability to work both independently and interdependently to ensure work tasks are delivered on time and to a high standard.
**Conditions of Employment**:
- Right to work in Australia
- Current Working with Children Check (employee)
**Our take home message**:
Get Skilled Access is a Disability Owned Business Enterprise (DOBE), meaning we are managed and run by people with disability, and people with lived experience of disability.
We’re passionate about empowering people to lead happy, healthy, and active lives.
GSA and Sport4All recognises and celebrates the diversity of our communities in all its forms.
We foster and promote inclusivity and encourage everyone to apply, especially those who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
There is a place in sport for everyone, exactly as you are.
As part of our commitment to safety for all, we require all applicants that may work with children to undergo an exten
📌 Sport Inclusion Officer
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