Your responsibilities

As a Director, Investment and Commissioning, Child and Family you will:

Develop and implement contemporary approaches to investment and contracting within human and social services sector, including promoting best practice in contracting, monitoring and reporting on outcomes and delivery of client benefits for specific service users.
Provide strategic leadership and stewardship to manage and coordinate the investment of Child and Family programs ensuring the effective and culturally appropriate delivery of services to meet the diverse needs of children, young people and their families.
Foster partnerships across government and non-government organisations to maximise investment and improve outcomes for children and their families across the continuum of the child and family service system.
Contribute to the development of legislative and strategic policy submissions, Cabinet submissions, Cabinet Budget Review Committee submissions, and review and evaluation reports to enable Government to fully consider the issues for and impacts on the NGO sector.
Contribute to the Child and Family Services reform agenda as it relates to investment and financial and systems sustainability.
Drive red tape reduction across the department, through new and existing initiatives, and reporting on cost savings achieved.

Your mandatory requirements

You possess extensive knowledge of current policies, practices, trends, and philosophies relating to the provision of human services.

How to apply

To enable us to assess your application, please submit the following via www.smartjobs.qld.gov.au:

Resume and minimum of 2 referees including their email addresses. At least one referee should have a thorough knowledge of your work over the past two years as your manager or supervisor.
a statement not more than two pages, that summarises your skills, experience and achievements against the leadership competencies and duties/responsibilities of the position.

Hand delivered applications will not be accepted. See tips on how to write a resume and cover letter. If you experience any technical difficulties on www.smartjobs.qld.gov.au, please contact 13 QGOV (13 74 68).

Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.