Grants Support Officer

**APS 4 Grants Support Officer**

**Job Reference Number**014_01/25

**Position Title**Grants Support Officer

**Classification**APS 4

**Status**Ongoing, full time

**Salary Range**$77,331 - $83,121 + 15.4% superannuation

**Contact Person**John Donnon

**Contact Job Title**Assistant Director, Strategic Programs

**Contact Number**+61 3 9473 5251

**Number of Vacancies**1

**Division**Regulatory Policy, Insights and Review Division

**Branch**Regulatory Policy, Insights and Review

**Section**Strategic Programs

**Location**Flexible - National or state offices

**Date Applications Open**17 January 2025

**Date Applications Close**14 February 2025

**About the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission**

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (the NDIS Commission) is an independent agency
established on 1 July 2018 to improve the quality and safety of NDIS supports and services. The
NDIS Commission is the dedicated national regulator of NDIS service providers in Australia and
a non-corporate entity under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act
2013.

**The NDIS Commission’s core legislative functions**
- Uphold the rights of, and promote the health, safety, and wellbeing of, people with

disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the NDIS.
- Develop a nationally consistent approach to managing quality and safeguards for people

with disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the NDIS.
- Promote the provision of advice, information, education, and training to NDIS providers

and people with disability.
- Secure compliance with relevant legislation through effective compliance and enforcement

arrangements.
- Promote continuous improvement amongst NDIS providers and the delivery of

progressively higher standards of supports and services to people with disability.
- Develop and oversee the broad policy design for a nationally consistent framework relating

to the screening of workers involved in the provision of supports and services to people
with disability.
- Engage in, promote, and coordinate the sharing of information to achieve the objects of the

relevant legislation.
- Provide NDIS market oversight, including:
I. By monitoring changes in the NDIS market which may indicate emerging risk
II. By monitoring and mitigating the risks of unplanned service withdrawal.

The NDIS Commission is a disability friendly organisation that offers interesting and challenging

**About the Division**

The Regulatory Policy, Insights and Review Division supports the NDIS Commission’s delivery of

legislative functions through strategic policy development and advice, market design and

oversight, data and analysis activities, and major projects and initiatives.

This includes innovative and strategic thinking, data analysis and evidence reviews to solve

complex policy issues that facilitate upholding the rights of people with disability through

regulation of the NDIS market, to enable the provision of safe and quality supports.

The Division supports the NDIS Commission’s response to the Royal Commission into Violence,

Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, the NDIS Review and the NDIS

Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce. It also supports the NDIS Commissioner with

inquiries and reviews, delivery of NDIS workforce initiatives and administration of the Support

for NDIS Providers Grants Program (Grants Program).

The Division consists of the following teams:

- Intergovernmental and Regulatory Policy
- Strategic Policy Coordination and Business Improvement
- Disability Specialist Policy Advice
- Markets and Frameworks
- Strategic Programs
- Regulatory Improvement Initiatives
- Research and Evaluation
- Data Governance
- Reporting and Insights
- External Budget Policy.

**About the team**

Strategic Programs serves key functions for the NDIS Commission, including leading

engagement across functional areas of the NDIS Commission to design, develop, implement

and monitor and promote strategic evidence-based programs such as the Support for NDIS

Providers Grants Program and other initiatives aligned with the NDIS Commission’s strategic

and corporate goals.

The team also undertakes monitoring and evaluation of funded projects and the Grants

Program as a whole, overseeing the collection, management and analysis of various types of

data, ensuring legislative compliance, and providing technical assistance to Grants Program

stakeholders in understanding their data and measuring the regulatory impact of their

projects.

**Key duties**

The Grants Support Officer will participate in the development, coordination and delivery of

program activities and some policy projects for the NDIS Commission.

The Grants Support Officer will:

- support and promote the NDIS Commission’s vision, mission and business objectives
- support administration of Commonwealth grant activities, including drafting grant

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