El2 Director

Full time
A new role awaits Currently, there are around 4.3 million Australians with a disability.
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) implements the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which is one of the biggest social reforms in the country since Medicare.
As an Agency, we support more than 600,000 participants with a significant and permanent disability, and the families and carers of those living with disability.
For many Australians, this will be the first time they receive the disability support they need.
The NDIA is designed to enhance the quality of life and increase economic and social participation for people with disability and will mean peace of mind for every Australian.

We have two incredible opportunities for highly skilled Executives to join our branches within the Specialised Service Delivery Division as an EL2 Director Liaison.

The Specialised Service Delivery (SSD) Division includes the Aged Care and Hospital Interface, Complex Support Needs, National Early Childhood, and Scheme Eligibility Branches.

The EL2 Director Liaison is an important team leadership position within the NDIA and will have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities of substantial depth involving significant detail.
The role is required to provide leadership, control, planning, resource management, performance management and decision making for the team membership and assigned Contractors working within the work area.

Where you can add value The EL2 Director Liaison works with a high degree of autonomy and professionalism, with a focus on providing detailed technical, professional, policy, operational support, and advice in relation to complex problems.

Main elements of these roles include:
Liaising with the wider sector through portfolio management (including other government and community services) regarding individual participants and wider disability related issues.
Leading and supporting Justice Liaison Officer or Hospital Interface Liaison Officers to consider solutions to drive participant outcomes, consistent quality reasonable and necessary decisions and effectively manage complex situations associated with approval of funding within the NDIS Act and Rules.
Exercising higher level delegations in respect to the NDIS Act and Rules including reasonable and necessary supports taking into account factors including scheme sustainability and liability.
Demonstrating strong understanding of the disability, justice and/or hospital sector including approaches that underpin progressive and contemporary disability service provision (e.g.
community connection, inclusion, positive behaviour support etc.).
In the Hospital Interface Director role, you will be investigating the barriers and enablers to effective and timely hospital discharge practices for NDIS participants.

In the Justice Liaison Director role, you will be engaging with stakeholders across many justice interfaces and working alongside people with disability who intersect with the justice system.
Our aim is to ensure people with disability have the disability supports they require whilst in custody, and to support successful transition to the community.

Enough about us, let's talk about you These positions have a considerable level of public contact in relation to complex, difficult or sensitive issues.
To join our team, you will have:
A positive contemporary attitude to people with disability, a high level of disability awareness and an understanding of the impact this may have for individuals.
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to develop and maintain networks.
Experience working with Government mainstream services.
The ability to be flexible and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
Be able to work autonomously as part of a high performing Team.
The ability to lead a team and drive performance.
Engage with stakeholders across all government and community agencies in a professional manner.
High levels of integrity and professionalism to support our values and mission.
Allied Health experience (highly desirable) for the Aged Care Hospital Interface role.
Justice interface experience (highly desirable) for the Complex Support Needs role.
Your NDIA Experience We work as one team.
We are accepting, diverse and driven.
We take a shared approach to making progress.
We welcome and support each other and encourage different ideas, insights and opinions.
We empower and enable each other to be our best.
We collaborate, connect and work together to create a workplace that makes us proud.

You will work for a socially inclusive and culturally diverse workplace, that is making a meaningful impact to the lives of more than 600,000 Australians.
Access to higher superannuation and above market leave entitlements Competitive remuneration and working conditions that support a positive work life balance Access to ongoing professional development and learning While these roles are ideally performed from a capital city or Geelong, the National Disability Insurance Agency is a national organisation with 120 office locations across all states; remote working arrangements may be considered.

We intend to fill this role in an ongoing capacity, however non-ongoing roles up to 12 months with the possibility of extension up to 2 years may be offered.

Successful candidates will be required to undergo a pre-employment National Police History check, Worker Screening check and/or Working with Children Check (where required) and provide evidence of Australian Citizenship.

Applications for this role close 11:30pm on 15 October 2024 AEDT With the exception of personal details, applications can NOT be edited or updated once submitted for consideration.
Please make sure you are completely satisfied with your entire application before submitting.

NDIA is committed to supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and welcomes and encourages applications from People with Disability (PwD), First Nations peoples, LGBTIQA+ people, people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds, Mature age workers, as well as young workers and supporting an inter-generational workforce and supporting gender equity and families.
NDIA will provide reasonable adjustments for candidates to participate equitably in the recruitment process and discuss workplace adjustments to fulfil the inherent requirements of the role.

RecruitAbility applies to this position: The RecruitAbility scheme supports people with disability applying for jobs in the Australian Public Service (APS) by giving you a better opportunity to put forward your skills and experience during the selection process.

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