NDIS Community Engagement Officer

NDIS Community Engagement Officer

Fixed term until December 2018

Not-for-profit in Carlton

Challenging and rewarding role

Amaze, the peak body for Autism in Victoria, has an exciting new opportunity to work with the Victorian autism community to build the capacity of autism support groups to enter the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

Building on the successful work of Amaze over the past two years in building the capacity of 32 autism peer-groups to enter the NDIS, Amaze is expanding this work into upcoming NDIS roll out locations.

The role of the NDIS Community Engagement Officer is to work with existing or new autism peer-support groups, throughout Victoria, to strengthen their capacity to understand and prepare for the NDIS and other activities to maximise their independence, self-advocacy and community participation.

The successful candidate will identify and select suitable support groups/networks and work with members to build confidence and expertise, enabling them to achieve greater involvement with the autism community. They will also identify regions that are under-served and establish new groups/networks. They will develop resources and content to build capacity to increase individual’s choice and control of the services they access.

This project will help enable autistic people and their families to gain the knowledge and expertise to make their own choices about their lives, and help them access community support options and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

This role will act as the central coordinator for support groups and will help connect group members with local services, key community agencies and other partners.

Travel throughout Victoria will be required