Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 9th Apr 2021
The Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia (YACWA) is WA’s peak non-government youth organisation. YACWA operates primarily as a human rights organisation that seeks to address the exclusion of young people in a rapidly changing society. YACWA is widely respected and has a strong and diverse membership which includes policy makers, academics, youth workers and, importantly, young people who are all passionate about achieving positive and meaningful outcomes for the children and young people of Western Australia.
This is a new role designed to manage the development and delivery of a new Grants Program for services supporting young people in Western Australia. The key function of this role is to scope and deliver the Lotterywest Youth Grants Program over the course of 12 months, including developing marketing materials, promoting the grants to prospective applicants, providing support to applicants, overseeing an assessment procedure and managing the acquittal process in line with industry best practices.
The Lotterywest Youth Grants Program (the Grants Program) has emerged as part of a sector-wide response to the issues facing young people in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown. Young people have experienced unprecedented disruption to their education and employment opportunities, alongside significant challenges to their overall health and wellbeing. Similarly, the youth services and organisations supporting young people have been forced to adapt their services, completely re-think models of service delivery and reinvent the way they operate.
The Grants Program is a response to those challenges. Operating as a devolved funding program through funding from Lotterywest, the Grants Program will enable YACWA to provide financial support to youth services to increase their organisational capacity, trial new programs, deepen youth engagement and improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes for young people in Western Australia.
The Grants Officer will develop and deliver the first instance of what is envisioned as an ongoing Grants Program which will provide agile support to youth services and youth organisations in WA to deepen youth engagement, improve mental health outcomes and maximize opportunities for young people.
PROJECT SPECIFIC
ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL
GENERIC RESPONSIBILITIES
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
DESIRABLE SKILLS
ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES
OTHER
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.
Enquiries about this role should be directed to Matthew Tomich, Member and Community Engagement Manager on [email protected] using the subject line: Grants Officer enquiry via EthicalJobs or via phone on 9227 5440 during office hours.
For more information about YACWA visit yacwa.org.au.