• Permanent Full Time -Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,500 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.

About the role

Permanent full time based in our Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane office with flexibility to work from home, to implement and contract administrate the facilities management contract with our third party provider. You will be joining a geographically dispersed organisation and team so your ability to build and maintain relationships within a fast paced, agile environment will assist with your success in the role.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the contract and supplier management activities for Facilities Management
• Manage the supporting administrative processes on the end to end contract process with the Contractor and Property team
• Manage the iPoS eProcurement process for contract management and administration activities
• Assist in ensuring operational deliverables in line with contract obligations
• Provide subject matter expertise and coaching to Managers for contract management and administration activities below the procurement involvement threshold
• Identify and report non-compliance to contract and policy
• Act as the Supplier Relationship Manager with the Facilities Management contractor

Skills & Experience

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in fields such as procurement, business, commerce, economics, law or related discipline (property / construction)
• Demonstrated experience in procurement, facilities management, or property where you have been responsible for sourcing, developing, tendering, negotiating, implementing and administering contracts in the area of commodity and/ or service agreements
• Demonstrated experience in the management of outsource services
• Demonstrated experience in applying risk management principles to contracts
• Demonstrated experience in managing competing priorities and to deliver high quality outcomes within agreed timeframes
• Proven knowledge of contemporary SRM and contract management practices within a complex organisation

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).

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact [email protected] using the subject line: Contracts Specialist, Facilities Management - Flexible location enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA