About Canteen & Youth Care Services

Just when life should be full of possibilities, cancer can crash into a young person’s world and shatter everything. Canteen provides young people impacted by cancer, and their parents, with access to a team of Allied Health Professionals who deliver programs, counselling and a range of other group and individual support activities.

The Youth Cancer Services (YCS) are specialised treatment and support services for young people with cancer, based in major hospitals throughout Australia. YCS provide medical, nursing and allied health professional services around Australia with a shared focus on improving outcomes for young people diagnosed with cancer.

Benefits & Culture

Canteen’s unique culture offers an inspiring, rewarding and purposeful experience enabling you to be at your best, together with a range of benefits including tax-effective salary packaging, generous leave entitlements and professional development opportunities.

The Role

As the Project Admin Officer, Youth Cancer Services (YCS), you will be responsible for supporting the Implementation of the Youth Cancer Service program and Clinical Trials initiative. You will play a key role in the YCS National team, assisting the Head of Patient Programs in the management of project progress and contract deliverables, as well as to develop and maintain relationships with all partners and stakeholders of the YCS program and Clinical Trials initiative.

Some key responsibilities of the Project Admin Officer role include:

• Provide comprehensive and highly organised administrative and project support including data entry, documentation and record, distribution and tracking of correspondence, briefing materials, and the maintenance of communications and contact lists
• Develop communication strategies and quality assurance processes and protocols to ensure a high level of achievement against project objectives
• Ability to accurately monitor and maintain records of program expenditure to provide accurate up-to-date information
• Ability to develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, interact confidently, possessing strong writing, listening and questioning skills
• Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of project outcomes and escalation of issues for attention

• Qualifications & Skills Required

• Previous experience in a project support officer role gained within Government or Commercial sector, ideally with a focus on supporting and monitoring major programs, services, or projects will be highly regarded
• Experience building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships in complex and dynamic project environment
• High level of competency with Microsoft Office, including Outlook, MSproject, Word and Excel.
• Highly organised and able to manage time well and work flexibly without supervision.
• Ability to develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the Youth Cancer Services and Clinical Trials Programs, including knowledge of their guiding principles, stakeholders, objectives and the status, timelines, and actions for all key projects

Employment Details:

Location: Work from home

Job type: 24 month contract; 0.6 FTE

Hours of work: 3 days/ 22.5 hours per week

As Canteen’s work involves employees being in direct contact with children and young people, employees are required to complete police and working with children checks, relevant to the State in which they will be employed. As an Allied Health organisation we are encouraging our employees to be vaccinated.