Grants Officer

**Are you looking for your next challenge? We have an exciting opportunity for two Grants Officers to join our Grants team for the effective administration of sports funding and grants program.**

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We are seeking two Grants Officers to join our team on a temporary basis up to June 2025. The role will be based in our Sydney Olympic Park office, offering flexible hybrid work arrangements.

**Working with us**

The Office of Sport is the lead NSW Government agency for sport and active recreation.

With a vision of _sport and active recreation creating healthier people, connecting communities and making a stronger NSW,_ we provide the people of NSW with the leadership, policies, programs, funding and infrastructure necessary to maximise the social, health and economic benefits realised through this valued sector.

Our work is spread across NSW, with ten Sport and Recreation Centres, five Olympic Sport Venues and offices throughout the state.

**About the role**

The Grants Officer Sport provides advice and administrative support on a wide range of issues relating to grant and funding policies, processes and procedures.

In this role, you will be required to:

- Contribute to a range of projects, programs, and other initiatives to support the sport and active recreation sector.
- Provide advice and information to grant applicants and other external stakeholders on the funding processes, guidelines, and relevant policies and procedures.
- Undertake a range of administrative tasks that support the efficient and compliant management of grants administered, including maintaining system records.
- Undertake research activities, source and collate information and contribute to the preparation of reports, presentations, briefings, and other correspondence for management.
- Resolve grant recipient issues relating to lodgement issues, contractual arrangements and grant cycles.
- Undertake a quality assurance review on all documentation to ensure compliance with Public and Finance and Audit requirements and raise any non-compliance issues with the officers responsible.

For more information view the role description.

**About you**

You will have the ability to consistently and accurately assess and support the administration of effective grants funding in an environment with a high volume and variety of tasks, competing priorities and tight deadlines. You can deal effectively and professionally with key stakeholders whilst managing their expectations and balancing competing priorities and minimising any conflicts of interest.

**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

The Office of Sport is committed to building a workplace that values and supports diversity and inclusion. We actively promote the employment of women, people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

The Office of Sport is committed to keeping children safe. It is the responsibility of all staff, regardless of role, to act to keep children safe from harm.

**The Office of Sport is a great place to work, we offer**:

- A family friendly and flexible working environment
- A competitive salary
- Generous leave entitlements including recreation, sick/carer’s, family and community services, and flex leave
- Access to salary packaging, Fitness Passport and the Employee Assistance Program
- Skills and leadership development training programs
- Free onsite parking
- Convenient location, easy access to public transport and to shops

**How to apply**
- Provide your responses to the two pre-screening questions (maximum of 2 pages/4,000 characters).
- Provide a resume that details your current and previous experiences (maximum of 4 pages)

**Pre-screening questions**
- Describe how you prioritise your workload when faced with multiple deadlines. What strategies do you use?
- Describe a time when you had to convey important information to a diverse audience. What techniques did you use to ensure understanding?

**Notes**
- No offer of employment will be made until all relevant clearances are finalised.

**Applications Close**:Sunday 27 October 2024 at 11.59pm