Program Implementation Lead. Permanent Full Time

**Job no**: 503724
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: ACT, Albury Wodonga & Murray, Blue Mountains & Central West, Coffs Harbour & North Coast, Dubbo & Central NSW, Far West & North Central NSW, Gosford & Central Coast, Goulburn & Southern Tablelands, Lismore & Far North Coast, Newcastle, Maitland & Hunter, Port Macquarie & Mid North Coast, Richmond & Hawkesbury, Sydney, Tamworth & North West NSW, Tamut, Southern Highlands & Snowy, Wagga Wagga & Riverina, Wollongong, Illawarra & South Coast, Darwin, Alice Springs & Central Australia, Katherine & Northern Australia, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Bundaberg & Wide Bay Burnett, Cairns & Far North, Gladstone & Central QLD, Hervey Bay & Fraser Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Mackay & Coalfields, Mt Isa & Western QLD, Norfolk Island, Rockhampton & Capricorn Coast, Somerset & Lockyer, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba & Darling Downs, Townsville & Northern QLD, Adelaide, Adelaide Hills & Barossa, Coober Pedy & Outback SA, Fleurieu Peninsula & Kangaroo Island, Mt Gambier & Limestone Coast, Riverland & Murray Mallee, Whyalla & Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula & Clare Valley, Hobart, Central & South East, Devonport & North West, Launceston & North East, Bairnsdale & Gippsland, Ballarat & Central Highlands, Bendigo, Goldfields & Macedon Ranges, Dandenong, Epping, Geelong & Great Ocean Road, Horsham & Grampians, Sunshine, Mildura & Murray, Melbourne, Morning Peninsula & Bass Coast, Shepparton & Goulburn Valley, Taralgon & La Trobe Valley, Yarra Valley & High Country, Perth, Albany & Great Southern, Broome & Kimberley, Bunbury & South West, Geraldton, Gascoyne & Midwest, Kalgoorlie, Goldfields & Esperance, Mandurah & Peel, Northam & Wheatbelt, Port Hedland, Karratha & Pilbara
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family, Strategy & Engagement, Practice & Quality
- Join a leading social purpose organisation
- Permanent full-time opportunity, benefits include monthly RDO
- Location flexible within commutable distance to an LWB office

**About the Organisation**

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each individual need and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

**About the role**

In this position within our Child, Youth and Family Strategic Initiatives team, you will partner with our operational teams to design and deliver key strategic projects and initiatives across our national footprint.

Among your responsibilities will be project managing program and service delivery rollout and streamlining existing support models. You will also play a key role in leading and influencing foster care and residential care system reform within LWB and the broader Children, Youth and Family sector.

This is a permanent full-time position offering the flexibility to be based anywhere within our national footprint, including hybrid work from home/office arrangements. Ad-hoc national travel will be a requirement for this role.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Manage the development, planning, execution, and delivery of projects, utilising relevant project management systems and tools.
- Prepare all project documentation as required, such as briefs, scopes, discussion papers, memos, executive presentations, communication plans, project schedules and minutes.
- Actively deliver and/or participate in tasks that contribute to CYF priorities, such as developing and reviewing service models, policies, and procedures; enhancing operational workflows; conducting reviews and developing reports; coordinating key initiatives; and managing administrative requirements specific to these priorities.
- Manage project-level budgets, schedules, and resource allocation.
- Identify project and business risks and develop mitigation strategies and communicate as required.
- Establish, develop and manage effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

**Skills & Experience**
- Tertiary qualifications in business, project management, human services, or similar areas
- Demonstrated end-to-end project management experience in high demand environments.
- Demonstrated experience and understanding of the operational environment in Out of Home Care or Child Protectio