Statewide Manager - Early Childhood Approach

Description:

Statewide Manger - Early Childhood Approach

• Employment Term: Permanent full-time
• Location: Flexible to be based out of the following four locations - Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Townsville and Mackay with a hybrid working arrangement on offer
• Remuneration: Competitive salary + 11.5% super + $15,900 NFP salary packaging

Make a meaningful difference

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.

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.

Your part in our UnitingCare team

An integral part of our Family Services Leadership team, as the ECA (Early Childhood Approach) Statewide Manager you will provide strategic leadership as well as operational and financial management across the programs’ four regions including Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Townsville and Mackay.

This role is responsible for managing existing services, developing and enhancing the delivery of these services, leading community capacity building and contributing to the broader UnitingCare organisation.

The ECA service works with families and the local community to maximise access for children with disabilities or developmental delays to existing mainstream services, reducing the need for specialist disability services and building family capacity to support their child.

This position requires travel to capital cities and regional locations.

In this role you will:

• Deliver UnitingCare’s strategic direction through management of Early Childhood Approach program within Family and Disability Services.
• Provide expert, comprehensive and timely advice to the General Manager on key issues impacting on community services.
• Lead and manage the continuous improvement of all aspects of these programs and seek out opportunities for expansion through developing proposals and submissions for new services and funding in consultation with the General Manager.
• Lead and create a values driven, safe employment environment that attracts, engages and retains skilled employees and volunteers
• Increase clients and revenue in a systematic and predictable manner while also conducting the business development activities associated with reactive and agile opportunities identified by local staff
• Implement and monitor key performance indicators related to enhancing the quality of service delivery approaches and outcomes.
• Provide effective performance management and compliance with relevant legislation, standards, Uniting Church and UnitingCare Board Policies.
• Build, develop, lead and manage high performing teams across services. This will include managing the financial, human resources and operational management of all service and program areas

What makes a difference for us

• Tertiary qualifications in Allied Health, Early Childhood Education or a related relevant human services field are essential (Social Work, Psychology, Social Science, or a relevant Human Service field)
• Extensive experience in innovation and contemporary practice in the field of Early Childhood and/or Community Services and the family system
• Demonstrated achievements in providing strategic leadership and management for strategic and service planning in a medium sized, state wide, complex service
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage Early Childhood services, with an understanding of specialist programs
• Demonstrated understanding of the issues faced by regional and remote services; including managing the challenges of recruitment, support, supervision and quality service provision.
• Demonstrated understanding of key legislation and standards that exist at the Federal and State levels that impact on service delivery
• Demonstrated achievements in determining and implementing future organisational directions, facilitating effective change management processes
• Demonstrated success in leading and managing staff, co-ordinating planning project teams and cultivating productive working relationships, partnerships and teamwork.
• High level interpersonal, communication, consultation and negotiation skills with particular emphasis on negotiation of funding agreements and grants for viability

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

• Eligible employees are entitled to 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service, in addition to the government scheme; for eligible employees.

• 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 Disability 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.

Child safe, Child friendly

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

• provide welcoming, safe & 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.