• An exciting opportunity to work at a progressive Social Enterprise
• Hybrid work from home and office
• Ongoing Full-time or part-time (0.8 FTE) role

At the Summer Foundation, you get to make a difference. We are passionate about resolving the issue of young people living in aged care. This is something we believe is highly achievable.

Established in 2006, the key aim of the Summer Foundation is to change human services policy and practice related to young people living in aged care. The Summer Foundation utilises a range of strategies to influence health, housing, aged care and disability service policy and practice related to this target group.

The Housing Hub Team - a group of dynamic, passionate, and like minded people - was created to assist people with disability to see the possibilities for a home for themselves, have options to choose from, and find the home that is right for them.

Working with us, you’ll have the opportunity to purposefully and professionally incorporate your experience and expertise into your work. We have a shared clarity and commitment to purpose, and we strive to always deliver work of the highest standard. If you are looking for a career where you can make a difference, work with passionate people, have access to salary packaging, and have real opportunities for professional development, we encourage you to join our team.

Benefits Of Working With Us

There’s never a dull moment working at Summer Foundation and some of the good bits include:

• Not for profit PBI Salary Packaging of $15,900 + Meals and Entertainment card
• Above award salaries
• Flexible work arrangements
• 17.5% leave loading
• Employee Assistance Program
• Purchased leave available
• Social events throughout the year
• Above all, a friendly bunch of humans who are passionate and dedicated to our work

We encourage the best of the best to apply to join this team and make a difference. We offer great flexibility to work from home, as many of our services are provided online. We have staff working right across the country and continue to prioritise the safety of our staff and clients during these difficult times.

People with lived experience of disability are central to what we do, and we encourage and welcome you to apply.

A position description is attached.

About the role

We are looking for an enthusiastic, hard working and driven professional who is willing to put sustained efforts and eternal energy into completing external promotion of Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) opportunities in order to identify people with disability who are SDA eligible in South Australia.. The right candidate will enjoy working within a high performing group, put team success before individual, be resilient and vigorous in their effort! This is not easy work, but highly rewarding and knowing that you are making a difference ensures job satisfaction.

Strong and sustained engagement with the whole disability sector is key in this role. The right person will need to enjoy facilitating workshops and undertaking community promotion. Other key tasks such as making proactive phone calls to other Disability Sector professionals, attending webinars, doing presentations and running meetings will be ongoing. The team builds and maintains relationships with key stakeholders in the disability and housing sector and engages with people living with disability who have complex needs to promote the opportunity of independent living.

The daily use of our database will also need to become second nature as we have a high level of responsibility to both of our clients - the people living with disability and the SDA providers we work with. Our data is important as it helps inform the whole sector - working within this database is a priority.

Most importantly, you are passionate about supporting people with disability to find the home that is just right. You value lived experience and look to this to inform your work. The ability to be organised, manage multiple stakeholders and communications at once and work at a high energy level is important. If you want to work in the disability sector but at a commercial sector pace - and get the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of many people with disability - then this is the role for you.

Key responsibilities

• Delivery of Engagement Strategies including facilitation of workshops and community promotion (specific to particular SDA builds as well as the ongoing promotion of the Housing Hub website).

• Undertaking different forms of outbound engagement including phone calls, webinars, presentations, meetings and other as required.

• Engagement of people with disability who have complex needs and their informal and formal support networks, to promote the opportunity of independent living at new SDA builds and to link them to the application team.

• Documentation of all interactions with stakeholders, applicants and customers through the Housing Hub team’s CRM.

This role offers great flexibility to work from home, as many of our services are provided online. We have staff working right across the country and continue to prioritise the safety of our staff and clients during these difficult times.

Qualifications

• Community engagement or marketing qualifications and/or relevant experience.

• Allied health or disability relevant qualifications and/or relevant experience (desirable).

Skills & experience

• Previous experience in the disability sector working with people with complex needs.

• Community engagement experience including networking and stakeholder engagement.

• Knowledge of the NDIS, SDA housing environment (desirable experience).

Requirements

Employment is subject to National Police Check or NDIS Workers Screening Check and being fully vaccinated against COVID-19

How to Apply

Submit your resume and cover letter addressing why you would be the perfect candidate and how you meet the requirements of the role as outlined in the position description by hitting the Apply button below.

Submit the following documents:

• Resume/CV;
• Cover letter addressing why you would be the perfect candidate and how you meet the requirements of the role as outlined in the position description

We will be shortlisting immediately so please do not hesitate to apply ASAP if you think you may be a suitable applicant for this role.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected] using the subject line: Housing Engagement Coordinator enquiry via EthicalJobs or 1300 626 560.