• Join one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Great tax benefits
• Monthly rostered days off
• Maximum Term Contract to June 2019

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 5,600 employees working in more than 440 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 client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure agreements, contracts and arrangements are commercially sound and adequately reflect LWB’s Board mandated risk profile
• Provide advice on current and proposed commercial arrangements and supply strategies
• Participate in tenders and bids by providing commercial guidance on proposed transaction structure, transaction documents and commercial, legal and/or insurance impacts
• Participate in or lead (as required) in commercial negotiations on behalf of LWB
• Support the implementation of commercial policies and practices, and be responsible for adherence to functional governance requirements
• Identify and manage commercial risks and liabilities, develop cost-effective means of managing these risks and implement appropriate mitigation measures
• Implement and embed systems and procedures to effectively manage commercial and risk-related matters
• Provide Managers and Executive with sound and timely advice, support and reporting, related to commercial issues

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Commerce, Law or equivalent
• Experience in a similar role (contract and commercial management)
• A high level of commercial acumen with the ability to think strategically
• Superior communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills to be able to influence across all levels in a way which generates business benefit whilst maintaining key relationships
• Excellent written communication skills for the creation of reports, correspondence and other material

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

• Newly created position within a growing and transforming organisation
• Great tax benefits through Maxxia 
• Monthly rostered days off

Careers at Life Without Barriers from LWB Training on Vimeo.