• Indigenous & Multicultural Services (Community Services & Development)
  
• Full time
  
• $85,000 – $95,000 per year

About VACCHO

VACCHO is the peak representative for the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria.

We have 33 member Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations providing support to over 78,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the state. We lead and support Aboriginal Community Control and the broader health and social services sector to deliver transformative health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal communities in Victoria. We are a centre of expertise, policy advice, training, innovation and leadership in Aboriginal health and wellbeing. And we'd love you to join us!

About the role

The Project Officer, Workforce Development working within our Workforce Development Team, will make important contributions to projects that uplift and enhance the sustainability of ACCO service delivery. In particular, the Project Officer supports VACCHO’s delivery of education and training to primary healthcare teams across the state, to optimise their utilisation of the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS). This aims to enhance the sustainability, efficiency, and quality of primary healthcare services, and increase levels of Medicare-related knowledge and confidence across the ACCO sector workforce.

Essential skills/experiences

To be successful in this role, you will have the ability to coordinate the delivery of project activities including workshops, training sessions, meetings with external partners, and other project related activities and events. You will have sound judgement, a pragmatic approach to problem-solving, and strong communication skills, with willingness to take the initiative.

Desirable

• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply as your cultural and lived experiences are central to the work we do.

Benefits

• Working for Community in a culturally safe Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation, recently accredited as a Great Place to Work for the second consecutive year!
• Access to generous employee benefits including Not for Profit salary packaging entitlements (see below), leave loading, additional leave entitlements including cultural leave, and bonus Christmas leave if employed at VACCHO into the following year.
• Organisational early finish Fridays (4pm) and flexible working arrangements considered.
• Distinctive inner-city Collingwood office with wellness spaces and end of trip facilities available.

VACCHO is committed to welcoming and embracing the diversity of cultures, identities, gender, sex, and sexually diverse identities and expressions, experiences, beliefs, and values of all people.

About Salary Packaging

As a Public Benevolent Institute (PBI), we are able to offer generous tax concessions to our staff. For further information, please click here.

Get in touch

If this sounds like you, please email [email protected], using the subject line: Project Officer - Workforce Development enquiry via EthicalJobs and ask for the position description. In your application, remember to attach a covering letter that outlines why you are interested in the position, and your CV which highlights your skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role.

A position description is attached.

Other employment related information

Employment is subject to a satisfactory and ongoing police records check (international where relevant) and Working with Children Check.

We believe in the right for all people to be treated with the respect and dignity at all times, and that all people who work for, govern or undertake work at or visit us should at all times feel safe and included.

Visit us here for more info: vaccho.org.au.