Organisation : Mission Australia
Location : Adelaide
Work type : Full-time
Sector : Community Support Services
Salary type : Annual Package
Application closing date : 10 Jul, 2019
About the organisation
Mission Australia is a non-denominational Christian charity that has been helping vulnerable Australians move towards independence for more than 160 years.
Every day we support people nationwide by combatting homelessness, assisting disadvantaged families and children, addressing mental health issues, fighting substance dependencies and much more.
We're generously supported by our funders, partners and tens of thousands of everyday Australians, who make the work of our tireless volunteers and staff possible.
About the role
We are seeking an experienced leader from the social services and/or human services sector to lead our regionally dispersed South Australian team to deliver our services within contract commitments and to support the delivery of our future business plan.
You will be working in a fast-paced environment with circa 70 passionate employees to provide approximately 10 diverse frontline community services across South Australia; so you will need to be extremely organised, strategic, flexible and hands-on in your approach, analytical with good financial acumen, customer-focused and happy to travel across the region.
As you will be working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, your exceptional interpersonal skills along with your previous experience leading service teams to achieve quality outcomes (whilst managing performance and change) will see you thrive!
Reporting to the WA & SA State Director, you will:
- Lead a team and provide coaching, guidance and advice to team members
- Own and provide input to tender processes and contract negotiations
- Build and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Manage workforce planning, resource planning and succession planning for the region
- Work with the State Director and internal teams on a cycle of continuous improvement for internal MA processes and service delivery programmes to ensure these are optimised
- Contribute to operationalising Mission Australia’s strategy and the SA State Plan
- Work with internal MA teams to ensure that compliance commitments are met, if not exceeded
Requirements for Success
- Strong management experience leading and coaching community service delivery teams across multiple sites to achieve business outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to manage programmes within budgets and to contract parameters
- Adept at building and developing relationships within Mission Australia as well as funders, community partners and government departments
- Professional written and verbal communications skills and the ability to influence
- Excellent organisational skills and demonstrated ability to prioritise work and manage expectations often remotely
- Working with Children Check and Drivers Licence
- Tertiary qualifications desirable
Culture & Benefits
A career with Mission Australia will offer you rewarding experiences to make a difference to the lives of Australians in need. We have an innovative and supportive culture guided by our values of compassion, integrity, respect, perseverance and celebration.
To ensure our employees feel valued, empowered and celebrated we provide a range of employee benefits including:
- NFP salary packaging benefits reducing taxable income (details via Advantage)
- Discounted childcare rates with participating centres
- Generous discounts with hotels, travel insurance and major retailers
- Parental leave and the opportunity to purchase annual leave
- Free, confidential counselling services via our EAP
- Discounted health care with Medibank Private
Diversity & Inclusion
Mission Australia is an inclusive employer. We celebrate our diversity and strive to reflect contemporary Australian society and all the communities in which we work, in order to better serve our clients. We welcome and encourage applications from Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people, People with Disability, Sexually and Gender Diverse people, people with lived experience of adversity and from people of all ages.
How to apply
Applications not allowed for this job listing.
Please quote in application: Regional Leader, South Australia via Pro Bono Australia.
Sector: #Community_Support_Services