Policy Manager | Located in our newly built Oak Flats office

Join a 2024 award-winning Illawarra-based organisation celebrated for Excellence in Workplace Culture, Large Business, and Business of the Year. If you’re ready to use your policy expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership skills to shape the future of aged care, we want you on our team.

About Warrigal

At Warrigal, our values – Integrity, Respect, Innovation and Compassion - guide our approach and our vision is simple yet profound: to create a world where older people feel known, loved, and connected. Guided by our purpose—Enabling older people live their best lives on their terms—we’re dedicated to providing dignity, community, and belonging.

We believe in creating joyful experiences, lasting memories, and a society that celebrates aging. Every team member at Warrigal contributes to this legacy, ensuring it continues to inspire generations to come.

The opportunity

The Policy Manager will lead the development and implementation of policies across Warrigal, ensuring they align with legislative requirements and best practices. This role involves creating a comprehensive policy framework, simplifying access to policies, and producing clear and effective policy documentation. The Policy Manager will work closely with key stakeholders to ensure policies are relevant, compliant, and effective, while continuously monitoring their impact.

The role also requires staying informed about emerging trends, legislative changes, and industry best practices to guide policy decisions. Additionally, the Policy Manager will provide strategic advice to senior leaders, represent Warrigal in policy forums, and foster collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders. This position offers the opportunity to shape the organisation’s policy landscape and contribute to its ongoing success.

The benefits

• Base salary up to $137k- based on experience + packaging benefits + super
• Not For Profit salary packaging benefits – pay up to $18,550 less tax per year, meaning more money for you
• Career break schemes, additional purchased leave and more
• Commitment to on-going professional and career development
• Subsidised access to your local gym and 200+ more across the country with a Fitness Passport
• 24/7 access to mental, physical, social and financial support via the LifeWorks app

The requirements

Essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in public policy, law, social sciences, governance, or a related field.
• Extensive and demonstrated experience in policy development and implementation, preferably with a focus on the aged care or health sectors.
• Proven experience in drafting and creating organisational policy frameworks.
• Ability to effectively communicate the role of policies and procedures in complex care environments.
• Strong knowledge of legislative and regulatory frameworks.
• Exceptional research, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and engage with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in stakeholder consultation and engagement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines.

What our people love about working here:

A supportive, passionate culture: It’s a community filled with inspiring, big-hearted people. We back each other, listen without judgement and lead with kindness, respect and unwavering support - for our customers, residents and each other. This is encouraged from the top down and worked hard at – every day.

Leaders who value you: It’s important you feel valued. To us, this is not a one-off task. But a commitment to creating an environment where you feel seen, heard and valued – every day. Leaders and managers go out of their way to understand you, respect your opinions and hear what you have to say. This creates greater unity and collaboration with each other.

Time for a life that matters: We want you to feel part of our community, to have a place to belong, while respecting your life outside work. You’ll have the flexibility to fit work around your needs, take career breaks and purchase extra leave to make time for the people, places and life that matters to you.

One team, united in our purpose: We support older people to have great lives. We put older people first in everything we do. On an everyday level, we help them age with dignity, independence, happiness and connectedness. On a big picture level, we’re challenging ageist thinking in Australia. This is the Warrigal Way.

Who we are | A community who cares

Warrigal has firmly established itself in the aged care community for over 60 years. We’re proud of the diverse range of retirement living and aged care services we’ve built up in that time, but we still have the same appetite to grow and innovate. Meaning, you’ll have the chance to move around, get promoted or explore different areas across our expanding business in Illawarra, Southern Highlands, Queanbeyan, and Canberra – if that’s what you want.

Do work that matters to you

This is your chance to do work that matters, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australia’s older community – now and in the future.

JOIN US AND BE THE DIFFERENCE

We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, workers of all abilities, ages and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to apply and join our community.

Are you keen? Then don’t delay applying. We review applications as we get them and will close the vacancy once we find the right person.

Got questions? You can contact [email protected] but please don’t send applications through email – we can’t accept them.

If successful, you may be asked to do a medical, National Criminal History Check or NDIS Worker Screening Check, and provide references.