Supported Discussions Project Officer
2 days ago
Utilise your administrative expertise to provide support and advice to Office of the Public Advocate
- Fixed, Part-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- VPS Grade 4: $91,418 - $103,725 plus superannuation.
**About the Business Unit**:
The Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) is an independent statutory office accountable to the Victorian Parliament which has been established to protect the rights of, and enhance the position of, people with disability in Victoria. OPA is a human rights organisation that promotes the diversity and inclusion of all people.
OPA's vision is of a just and inclusive society that values and respects people from all walks of life and ages. OPA promotes a workplace culture where disability, and diversity of gender identities, sexualities, faiths, ethnicities, and abilities are respected. OPA values a range of experience in its employees, including professional, volunteer and lived experience.
**About the Role**:
The Supported Discussions Project Officer is a new role at OPA reporting to the Inclusion Projects Manager. The role will lead the delivery of the community education component, including the development of a short video, of the grant-funded project: Supported discussions: Promoting ways Victorian service system organisations can remove barriers to access to services by using supported decision-making strategies (Supported Discussions project). The role will also engage with the project partner that will deliver the short-term advocacy component of the project.
**Some of your duties will include**:
- Working with the Inclusion Projects Manager and other OPA staff, lead the coordination, development and delivery of information sessions.
- Coordinate advisory committee meetings during the life of the project. The advisory committee will involve people with lived experience of disability and will play a key role in informing the community education component of the project through a co-design approach.
- With the OPA Inclusion Projects Manager, Communications Projects Officer and other OPA staff, play a lead role in the development of a short videotargeted at staff from service system organisations.
**About you**:
**To be successful in this role, you will have**:
- Ability to draw on lived experience of disability to understand the experiences of, and barriers faced by, people with disability (particularly people with cognitive disability)
- Knowledge of the disability self-advocacy sector
- Demonstrated commitment to promoting the right to autonomy for people with disability and principles of supported decision making
How to apply
**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT**:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.
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