Grants Officer

**_Grants Officer_**

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 2
**Remuneration**: $109,857.00 - $129,624.00 per annum, plus superannuation and 17.5% leave loading
**Hours Per Week**: 38

**Location**: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards, Sydney
**Requisition ID**: REQ523239
- **Be part of an organisation that makes a difference in cancer control in NSW**:

- **Opportunity to** **support the cancer sector through grants administration**:

- **Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply**

**_Where you’ll be working_**

The Cancer Institute NSW is the NSW Government’s cancer control agency, established to lessen the impact of cancer across the state.

Working at the Cancer Institute NSW means joining a team of committed and dedicated staff who are proud to be a part of the Institute’s purpose of overseeing and accelerating the effectiveness of cancer control in NSW.

The Cancer Institute is a collaborative working environment that encourages diversity and inclusion in how we work and the way we work together. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Greater consideration will be given to suitable applicants, in order to improve access to employment and career opportunities (GSE Rule 26).

**_ What you’ll be doing_**

In this role you will be required to Support and coordinate the delivery of an effective grant management function across the Cancer Institute NSW. This includes contract management milestones and key performance indicator monitoring and review.

It is desirable for you to have an understanding of general accounting standards, NSW procurement policies and financial management issues in the public sector.

**_ Remuneration/Benefits_**

In addition to base salary:

- 5% superannuation
- 4 weeks annual leave (plus 17.5% leave loading)
- 10 days sick leave
- 40 hours per week which include accrual of monthly Allocated Day Off (ADO) x 12 per year.

Access to:

- Generous Flexible Working practices
- Fitness Passport: a membership card for NSW government employees that gives you and your family unlimited access to 400+ gyms and other facilities at one low price.
- Novated car leasing arrangement
- Salary sacrificing to superannuation.
- Your resume (maximum five pages)
- A covering letter addressing the Essential Requirements, as outlined in the Role Description
- A response to the Pre-screening questions, as outlined below.

**_Essential requirements_**
- Tertiary qualifications or demonstrated equivalent, relevant professional experience in grants management including contract management and financial acquittals.
- Sound understanding of general accounting standards, NSW procurement policies and financial management issues in the public sector.

**_ Pre-screening questions_**
- Please describe your experience in grants administration and your skills in budget and financial management as relevant to grants administration.
- Please give an example of a project (ideally a grant scheme) you have managed where you were responsible for monitoring project milestones and explain what tools you used to ensure that the project/grant was meeting its milestones?

**_Interested?_**

For more information:

- Click here for the Role Description

**Applications Close: Monday, 16th December 2024 at 11.59 pm**

The CORE+4 Values define what is important to the Cancer Institute NSW and our employees.
Our values are: Collaboration, Openness, Respect, Empowerment, Strategic, Supportive, Innovative and Flexible.

The Cancer Institute NSW is unable to offer salary packaging. Salaries will be negotiated commensurate to experience and qualifications of the role.

To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.