Due to the continued strong growth of their programs in Australia and New Zealand, Connecting Up Australia is adding two new full-time staff positions to their team: Donations Administration Support Officer, and Manager, Online Content.
You’ll be located in a modern office in the CBD of Adelaide, working closely with a team of 8 other professionals. You’ll have access to family-friendly working conditions and the salaries will be competitive for the right people, based on your skills and experience. These are full-time positions and you’ll need to be flexible about extra hours from time to time, including interstate and, potentially, international travel.
For full details go to
http://www.seek.com.au/job/administration-support-officer/adelaide/17124017/66/1/
and
http://www.seek.com.au/job/manager-online-content/adelaide/17164163/62/1/
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The Down Syndrome Society of SA is a leading “not for profit” organisation which supports and provides opportunities for persons with Down Syndrome and their families.
Reporting to the Board of the Society, the Executive Director is responsible for the implementation and development of services relating to: Early Intervention, Educational Consultancy, Leisure and Recreation, Life/Work Transition, Family Support, Training Courses and Resource Development.
We seek a dynamic leader with proven skills and abilities in leading a team of committed professionals. As the “face” of the organisation your knowledge and experience in working collaboratively with the Government and non Government sectors to provide sustainable development of the programs of the Society will be an asset in providing effective organisational management and quality service delivery.
Applications close on 31st August 2009. Full details of the position can be found at
http://seek.com.au/showjob.asp?jobid=15842661
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Jobseeker is a targeted employment website, focused solely on jobs in government, human services and the community and not-for-profit sector. Jobseeker contains the latest vacancies throughout Australia in the areas of:
- Alcohol and other drugs;
- Administration (mainly at not-for-profit organisations;
- Care services;
- Community development;
- Counselling;
- Disability work;
- Health and allied health;
- Housing;
- Mental health;
- Social work;
- Support work and
- Youth work
Jobseeker is part of Infoxchange Australia a non-for-profit community organisation with a mission to use ‘technology for social justice‘. It provides a range of low-cost IT services to not-for-profit organisations and community groups including website development, computer training, and Internet connection services.
Check out the Jobseeker site to search for and advertise positions.
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1,000 Postcards Presented to Minister O’Connor
The National Council on Intellectual Disability (NCID), together with families, employees and employers,
delivered 1000 postcards to the Hon. Brendan O’Connor MP, Minister for Employment Participation.
The postcards express the need for a national employment strategy, which provides young people with intellectual disability the opportunity to secure a job. Specifically, the postcards ask the Minister to:
• fund enough places of assistance for those who want to work,
• ensure that a specialist intellectual disability open employment service is available,
• recognise that this jobseeker group requires on-the-job training and ongoing support to succeed,
• ensure employee and employer relationships, and family confidence, is not undermined by plans to tender
out employment services, and,
• find ways to increase the employment participation of people with intellectual disability by looking at
evidence based practice.
“With only 5 weeks of this school year remaining, families are counting on the Commonwealth to deliver on its social inclusion policy; ‘that every Australian should have the opportunity to secure a job’,” said Mark Pattison, NCID spokesperson.
“We estimate that there are 2000 school leavers with intellectual disability who will be seeking to move from
school to work. Yet specialist intellectual disability open employment services do not have the funded capacity to provide assistance to this group. Families urgently need the Commonwealth to act,” Pattison added.
NCID believes that the new Commonwealth government has the opportunity to set in motion its commitment to social inclusion by ensuring that these young people are included in real jobs in the community and do not become another ‘unemployment’ or ‘not in the labour force’ statistic.
Furthermore, families are concerned about plans to regularly tender open employment services. Many are worried about how this will impact ongoing relationships between employees, employers and services. Families want to be assured that when they choose open employment, the support will be ongoing without interruption.
For the long term, families want to see training and technical assistance provided to build the competency of the open employment sector so that all jobseekers with intellectual disability will receive assistance that is best practice.
National Council on
Intellectual Disability
PO Box 771
Mawson ACT 2607
02 6296 4400
mark.pattison@ncid.org.au
For Details, Contact:
Mark Pattison
Executive Director
0407 406 647
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