NDIA EL1 Strategy

Our participants, Our people, Our purpose
Currently, there are around 4.3 million Australians with a disability. The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) implements the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which is one of the biggest social reforms in the country since Medicare. As an Agency, we support more than 600,000 participants with a significant and permanent disability, and the families and carers of those living with disability. For many Australians, this will be the first time they receive the disability support they need. The NDIA is designed to enhance the quality of life and increase economic and social participation for people with disability and will mean a peace of mind for every Australian. 

A new role awaits
The National Disability and Insurance Agency (NDIA) is seeking candidates to fill EL1 Assistant Director vacancies.

The Strategy Branch leads and delivers highly complex and significant outcomes, projects and work programs that have a strategic and operational impact. It is responsible for addressing critical issues of wider Agency impact including leading teams and integrating multiple perspectives to develop solutions to Agency problems.

As the EL1 Assistant Director, you will be supporting the Management of the Strategy Branch within the Service Design 
Division.  You will be required to coordinate and assume responsibility for highly complex, sensitive projects or work programs aimed at achieving the NDIA’s mission to ‘build a world-leading National Disability Insurance Scheme.

The key duties of the position include:

Where you can add value
The position is responsible for actively managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships and where required will represent and negotiate on behalf of the NDIA to advance the NDIA’s interests across a range of forums.

Duties include but limited to:

• Collaborating with and supporting business areas to structure problems, inform options and drive solutions and Agency-wide priorities.
• Gathering and developing structured insights and recommendations for strategic projects.
• Creating materials for senior internal and external stakeholders, including the Minister, Board and Executive Leadership Team to communicate perspectives, recommendations, and implications for the Agency. 
• Presenting recommendations and facilitating discussions with a range of Agency stakeholders and senior leadership. 

Eligibility

Enough about us, let’s talk about you
What we are looking for in our ideal candidate:

• Excellent communication skills.
• High attention to detail and the ability to resolve issues and manage risks across wide-ranging activities. 
• Experience leading a small team and managing their workloads.
• A positive contemporary attitude to people with disability along with a high level of understanding and knowledge of disability and its impact on individuals.
• Provide strategic direction and establish priorities for the work area to meet operational requirements, ensuring that the teams have the necessary guidance for performing their roles.

Notes

Your NDIA Experience
We work as one team. We are accepting, diverse and driven. We take a shared approach to making progress. We welcome and support each other and encourage different ideas, insights and opinions. We empower and enable each other to be our best. We collaborate, connect and work together to create a workplace that makes us proud. And while we're based far and wide across the country, we make sure nobody feels they are out on their own.

• You will work for a socially inclusive and culturally diverse workplace, that is making a meaningful impact to the lives of more than 600,000 Australians.
• Access to higher superannuation and above market leave entitlements
• Competitive remuneration and working conditions that support a positive work life balance

While this role is ideally performed from Surry Hills NSW, Adelaide SA, Geelong and Richmond VIC, remote working arrangements may be considered. We intend to fill this role in an ongoing capacity, however non-ongoing roles up to 12 months with the possibility of extension up to 2 years may be offered. 

Successful candidates will be required to undergo a pre-employment National Police History check, Worker Screening check and/or Working with Children Check (where required) and provide evidence of Australian Citizenship.

Applications for this role close 11.30pm, Wednesday, 30 April 2025 AEST.

Getting to know the National Disability Insurance Agency

The NDIS provides funding to eligible people with disability to gain more time with family and friends, greater independence, access to new skills, jobs, or volunteering in their community, and an improved quality of life. The NDIS also connects anyone with disability to services in their community. This includes connections to doctors, community groups, sporting clubs, support groups, libraries and schools, as well as providing information about what support is provided by each state and territory government. The NDIS now supports over 500,000 Australians with disability to access the services and supports they need. This includes supporting approximately 80,000 children with developmental delay, ensuring they receive supports early so that they achieve the best outcomes throughout their lives.