Policy and Project Officer

**Introduction**:
BallyCara is an established charitable organisation that offers a wellness-focused lifestyle for our clients to facilitate independent living, health, and happiness.

At BallyCara, you will belong to a welcoming and inclusive community where your individual strengths and interests are embraced and are the key driver to everything that we create together. We will empower you with flexibility, autonomy and coaching to allow you to make a meaningful difference, whilst supporting you in your career and personal journey.

We inspire healthy and happy living through our SONA® (Happiness) ethos and enhance our employee's wellness through the following employee benefits:

- Emotional Wellness: Enhance your happiness. Accrue a wellness day off each year to take on your birthday, for your family, or just for you because you are worth it.
- Physical Wellness: Improve your health and wellbeing with a fitness allowance for yoga, pilates, swimming, or gym plus access to an online fitness portal LIFT Fitness
- Professional Wellness: Enhance your career with two days of paid study leave combined with yearly study assistance
- Financial Wellness: access not-for-profit salary packaging up to $18,550, receive 17.5% annual leave loading, and up to $1,892 per annum in financial discounts from our Lifeworks EAP and wellbeing portal

**Description**:
This is a part-time fixed-term contract (up to 2 years).

The Policy and Project Officer at BallyCara fulfills a multifaceted role within the Service Excellence Team, focusing on policy analysis, project support, report writing, and data analytics.

**The successful incumbent will**:

- offer expert policy advice to contributing to policy development initiatives.
- support the EBD Stream to achieve organisational initiatives
- play a critical role in:

- Policy and analysis work
- Maintaining our policy system and offering expert policy advice to Managers and the Executive, contributing to policy development initiatives
- Data analysis
- Conducting data cleansing and analysis to inform and enhance BallyCara's operations and projects. Internal research and report writing
- Project support
- contributing to activities aligned with BallyCara's strategic ambitions, and identifying process improvements to streamline project delivery and optimise resources.

**What we offer**:
A generous salary is on offer of $50.61 per hour + super
An opportunity to work with the best in the business, described by staff as an “amazing” place to work.
We truly care about our staff and our culture is underpinned by our core values and SONA ethos.
Focus on learning and development.
Generous salary packaging benefits.
Wellness inspired employee benefits.

**Skills and Experiences**:
**To be successful you will have**:
Education, training and/or relevant experience equivalent to a completion of a degree in a relevant discipline.
Highly developed conceptual, analytical, research and problem-solving skills including the ability to evaluate and critically analyse complex issues.
Highly developed written communication skills, including the ability to prepare successful submissions and proposals to influence stakeholders or achieve strategic goals, and clear and concise reports and correspondence.
Demonstrated knowledge of the current aged care funding environment, national policies, and funding issues relating to grants including evidence of skills required to read and interpret large and complex policy documents.
Exemplary verbal and interpersonal communications skills including the ability to clearly negotiate, communicate, consult, and liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
Evidence of well-developed digital literacy skills and a knowledge and understanding of relational databases including integration into a complex IT environment.
Demonstrated proactive and positive attitude, actively contributing to fostering a culture of excellence, responsiveness, and flexibility within the organisation.

**It would be considered highly desirable to have**:

- Experience working within a not-for-profit/aged care, wellness, or disability sector
- Experience/understanding of services for older people and working with older people

Position Requirements
- Police Check or willingness to obtain
- COVID vaccinations x 2

How to apply