Statewide Manager - Early Childhood Approach

• Employment Term: Permanent full-time
• Location: We are flexible with basing this opportunity in any of our Statewide locations:Annerley, Toowoomba, Broadbeach, Townsville or Mackay
• Remuneration: Competitive salary + 11% super + $15,900 NFP salary packaging

Make a meaningful difference with UnitingCare Community 

UnitingCare’s Family and Disability Services is one of the largest and most diverse community service providers in Queensland providing a wide range of critical services with over 2,300 paid employees and 5,000 volunteers. Our services provide support to vulnerable individuals, families and communities in metropolitan, regional and remote locations across Queensland.

We’re looking for someone who wants to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts. To build meaningful relationships and make a difference in the lives of others.

Your part in our UnitingCare Community team

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Statewide Program Manager to join our Senior Leadership Team. Working with teams based across the state, you will lead the Early Childhood Approach Partnership (ECA) with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). This role will provide strategic leadership and operational and financial management across all four ECA Regions including Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Townsville and Mackay. 

You will work with families and the local community to maximise access for children with disability/developmental delay to existing mainstream services, reduce the need for specialist disability services and build family capacity to support their child.

Both highly strategic and operational, your role will be responsible for the planning and implementation of program change; as well as identifying opportunities for program growth, service development and innovation.

What makes a difference for us

With extensive experience in the field of Early Childhood Approach and Disability, you will have a solid knowledge and comprehensive understanding on the NDIA Early Childhood approach and frameworks. Your experience has equipped you with strong people engagement skills and contemporary industry practices, with a passion for leading change and innovation.

Supplementing this you will present with the following:

• Tertiary Qualifications in Allied Health, Early Childhood Education or relevant Human Services field
• Demonstrated achievements in providing strategic leadership and management for strategic and service planning in a medium sized, state wide, complex service delivery organisation.
• A comprehensive understanding of contemporary community services and sector reform agendas including Early Childhood Approach services, child protection and domestic and family violence
• Demonstrated success in leading and managing staff, co-coordinating planning project teams and cultivating productive working relationships, partnerships and teamwork
• Ability to identify community needs and plan community engagement strategies

What makes a difference for you

At UnitingCare we are leaders in crisis response, the protection of vulnerable children, financial resilience and family wellbeing. Our Family and Child Services team work passionately across Queensland to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance 
• Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum 
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs 
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others 
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme 
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events 
• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference  

 We’d love you to be part of our UnitingCare family 

Our Family and Child Services team are passionate about their work with parents to ensure children remain safe in the home and parents have the skills, resilience and capability to effectively parent and meet their children’s developmental, educational, health and well-being needs. We also provide targeted services to men who are seeking to change their behaviour.

Joining our Family and Child Services team, you’ll also be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. The second-largest Queensland employer, we’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, and have been leading by example for more than 100 years. Our team are compassionate, inclusive and committed to the work we do, helping people live life in all its fullness.

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will: 

• provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children 
• implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur.

Diversity & Inclusion  

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here.  At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.   

Safe workplace 

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.