AddressOur Purpose
Our Purpose is to support children, young people, and their families to build skills and capacity, address the impacts of trauma and adverse childhood experiences, and develop capabilities that will enable them to be the best versions of themselves.
Our Vision
We see a future where Western Australia is the safest place in the world and all children, young people, and their families feel safe to dream, to thrive, and to reach their fullest potential.
About the Role
To primarily support the strategic direction of the organisation by researching, developing, and delivering business cases, tenders and grants for growth and expansion projects in line with organisational aims. This work is inclusive of working in partnership with internal expertise to deliver fully costed plans, and other stakeholders (internal and external) to design the services, workforce and program implementation and monitoring plans. A focus of this position is to explore and progress efforts to increase Parkerville’s service footprint to the south-west metropolitan corridor.
This role will be offered on a fixed-term, part-time basis working 30.4 hours per week. Primarily located at our Rockingham location, travel 1 day per fortnight to our Midland location will be required.
As a Growth Projects Officer, your duties and responsibilities will be:
- Research, analyse and review growth opportunities, identifying emerging issues/opportunities, developing evidence-based options, business cases, tender and grant applications, and recommended actions to enable growth.
- Manage and oversee all aspects of project planning, development, and implementation for identified growth options and projects.
- Identify the relevant success metrics in determining the feasibility and viability of growth opportunities including risk return and cost benefit analyses
- Positively build effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders to engage them in growth and expansion discussions and actions/plans
- Build place-based partnerships in order to deliver on key strategic imperatives and enable the integration of service offerings to the local community.
In order to be successful for this role, the applicant will have:
- Relevant tertiary qualification(s) in a relevant discipline AND/OR extensive experience in research, business development and/or growth-related project management, in the community, health, and/or for purpose sector.
- Demonstrable highly evolved analytical and project management skills exhibited by the ability to research, design, implement and evaluate short- and long-term strategic projects and business activities involving multiple stakeholders on time and on budget.
- Demonstrated understanding of commissioning processes and experience is writing tenders.
- Evidenced ability to design, analyse and deliver new or proposed growth-related projects within a complex operating environment, including budget preparation, risk identification and mitigation, and stakeholder engagement analysis.
- Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, engagement and facilitation skills that result in collaborative outcomes that meet and exceed project briefs and deliverables.
- Highly developed, writing (reports, business plan, grants, and tenders) and administrative skills commensurate with a role reporting to the Executive levels.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care are uniquely positioned to provide the successful applicant with the following benefits.
- SCHADS Schedule B Paypoint and Level 5.1 – 5.3 - $47.50 – 49.65 per hour
- Discounted Health Insurance Plans
- EAP Service with Wellness resources
- Salary Packaging of up to $15,900
- Ongoing Learning and Development Opportunities
Parkerville Children and Youth Care have a zero tolerance to alcohol and drugs.
It is essential that all applicants meet the above criteria and are permitted to work and remain in Australia with no limitations.
We hope to hear from you by 4:00pm, Wednesday, 17 July 2024. Applications will be assessed on a regular basis, and we may not wait until the closing date before you hear from us. We reserve the right to close the position earlier.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care Inc. has met the Safeguarding Children Standards set out by the Australian Childhood Foundation and received full Safeguarding Children accreditation in September 2019 and achieved re-accreditation in June 2022.
Parkerville CYC is committed to ensure that we maintain a diverse and inclusive workplace where our staff are welcomed and feel safe to be their authentic selves. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of gender, sexuality, age, disability, religion or cultural background.
We are committed to increasing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.
