Contracts Coordinator

Job No: S146

Location: Community and Aged Care - Greenslopes

About Us

Spiritus is an Anglican not-for-profit organisation providing caring and supportive services in partnership with government and other support organisations, to respond to identified needs in our community.

Our staff connect with people on every step of their lives' paths, responding with compassion, creativity, commitment and courage to the needs of the infirm and those most at risk in our communities.

Every day the passionate staff and volunteers of Spiritus are working to respond to growing community demand for our services. 

Spiritus is committed to social and community welfare issues and aged and community care needs, particularly with respect to disadvantaged members of the community.

Whether it is providing nursing care and domestic assistance in the home, physiotherapy to enable the return of mobility, emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence, working with foster carers in the care of vulnerable children, a safe caring environment for frail elderly people, wound care for homeless, skills training for young unemployed people or parental education and counselling, Spiritus is there, providing the best quality care available.

The work of Spiritus stretches from Cairns to Coolangatta, from Birdsville to Brisbane and reaches people of all ages with a variety of needs.

You are invited to reflect on our Vision, Mission and Value statements on our web site!

About the Role 

A recent restructure of our Community and Aged Care services has identified a need for a full-time Contracts Coordinator, based at Greenslopes. 

Reporting to the Business Manager - Community, the Contracts Coordinator will develop, implement and oversee standardised frameworks in line with organisational models for contract management across our Community and Aged Care stream, to ensure the effective and cost-efficient delivery of services to our in-home clients and aged care residents in accordance with the relevant standards and funding requirements. 

This role works closely and collaboratively with managers at all service points and with funding bodies.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Managing costs and identifying risks related to contracting and procurement within Community and Aged Care, robust reporting and database management, and scrutiny of procurement processes;
• Annual financial audits of service points across Community and Aged Care; and detailed analyses and audits of business operations across Community and Aged Care, including summaries, recommendations and action plans.  

A tertiary qualification in an accounting, legal or business-related discipline and an understanding of Aged Care standards and Funding requirements would be highly regarded.

In addition to responding to the questions below, this role requires the applicant to provide comprehensive responses to the key selection criteria below.  Please include your responses in your resume document to attach when you have completed your application. A pop-up window will appear after you click the "Submit Application" button to allow you do this.

Key Selection Criteria  

• Contemporary experience in the contract management in a commercial or not for profit environment or equivalent;
• Demonstrated experience in scrutinising, analysing and reporting on the financials of contracted services against budgets, and the ability to challenge anomalies;
• Strong report writing skills, with the ability to use data from a variety of sources to provide feedback on contract performance to stakeholders;
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills, and the ability to appropriately hold others to account;
• Ability to model a values-based personal style that is professional, collaborative and flexible;
• Ability to develop and maintain productive internal and external relationships;
• Demonstrated mature interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral);
• Highly developed IT skills relevant to this type of work; and
• High level of analytical and problem solving skills. 

To access a copy of the position description, please visit www.spiritus.org.au  click on the Join Our Team tab across the top of the page and then click on the Current Work Opportunities With Spiritus.  Underneath the role overview will be a link to download a copy of the position description.

For further information about this role, please contact Sally Saeri via email ssaeri@spiritus.org.au

Applications close Friday 19 March 2010