• Location: Hybrid - North Shore / Northern Beaches or Parramatta

Your opportunity

Reporting to the General Manager, your role as Specialist Disability Manager is to establish and lead the SDA function and improve operational performance by developing and maintaining business relationships and contractual requirements between Tenants, Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) providers and Aruma.

A day in the life of an SDA Manager…

• Work collaboratively across the organisation to ensure excellence in Service Delivery and the provision of suitable SDA accommodation for customers
• Train and educate stakeholders to ensure adherence and compliance with all applicable national and state-based regulations
• Manage and own P&L and Balance Sheet performance
• Establish, create, and maintain processes to improve the financial performance, reporting and tracking of the SDA function
• Manage SDA processes and policies ensuring policies, procedures and processes are current with NDIS requirements, including customer and partner agreements
• Responsible for ensuring all SDA properties are registered, our current data is accurate, and compliance obligations are meet

Sound like you?

• Have Tertiary qualifications in Business Management / Disability Services or related discipline
• 7 years+ experience working in a similar role, ideally in a disability housing organisation or similar
• A thorough understanding of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
• A working knowledge of tenancy regulatory frameworks
• Advanced MS Excel literacy and aptitude to use various software

What we offer

• We offer the benefits of flexibility and professional development opportunities.
• As a charitable organisation, our staff benefit from some Fringe Benefit Tax exemptions through salary packaging up to $15,900 p.a + up to $2,650 p.a on meal & entertainment
• Salary package living expenses (i.e., mortgage, loan, credit card repayments) meal and entertainment (dining out), a car (new or used)
• We offer employees and their immediate family members access to a confidential, impartial, and professional counselling service
• 5% discount on health insurance with Medibank

About us

We might have a new name, but we're not the new kids on the block. You once knew us as House with No Steps and The Tipping Foundation - two great organisations, with over 100 years of combined experience, who came together in 2018. Find out more at www.aruma.com.au.

Only applicants with the right to work in Australia will be considered. Shortlisted applications will be required to undergo pre-employment checks.

To ensure the safety and well-being of our people and customers, this role requires the successful candidate to be vaccinated against Covid-19. However, please speak to us if you have any questions about this based on your individual circumstances.