Careers

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 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.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

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

Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Risk and Resilience you will deliver and execute a fit for purpose business continuity and business resiliency preparedness program. As a key member of the Risk and Resilience Unit (RRU) your key focus is to deliver an integrated business continuity strategy, systems and tools and facilitate targeted testing and exercising programs to strengthen resiliency across the organisation.

This position is a permanent, full time position, location flexible.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain LWB’s business continuity and resilience program, policies and procedures.
• Develop entity and function-based business continuity plans, impact assessments, IT platform, systems, tools and templates to support managers to identify, maintain, update and validate business impact analysis.
• Drive standardisation, consistency, quality and effectiveness of Business Continuity Management and controls.
• Design business continuity scenario, testing and exercising programs.
• Develop and evolve LWB’s approach and tools for business continuity management working proactively with the business.
• Provide guidance, training and coaching for LWB managers and staff on all aspects of business continuity management.
• Prepare routine reports on business continuity performance.
• Oversee business continuity and resiliency management initiatives consistent with goals and objectives under the direction of the Manager Risk and Resilience.

 Skills & Experience

• Tertiary level qualifications in business continuity management or relevant field.
• Significant experience in a business continuity management, operational resilience, disaster recovery, crisis management, emergency management and risk management at an enterprise, strategic and operational level.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing and monitoring a fit for purpose business continuity program across multiple service types and multi-site locations.
• Demonstrated experience in managing competing priorities and delivering high quality outcomes within agreed timelines.
• Experience in leading organisation wide change and managing relationships with stakeholders to achieve results.
• The ability to influence and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including peers, employees, external organisations, funding bodies and government agencies.
• Demonstrated written communication skills for the creation of reports, correspondence and other material.
• Proficient ability in the use of Microsoft Office suite of programs.

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check and relevant child protection checks per state.

 Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Permanent full time, location flexible
• Competitive remuneration package including NFP salary packaging benefits
• Opportunity to have a big impact

How to Apply
Please include your resume and cover letter in one document. Click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any inquiries or assistance with adjustments, please contact Debbie Neil at recruitment@lwb.org.au.

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.

Please apply without delay, we are shortlisting regularly.