Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify future directions in organisation services
- Analyse major social issues impacting on service provision and interpret effects on service provision
- Establish liaison with key stakeholders to identify future directions, coordinate the organisation's responses to emerging issues and ensure effective communication
- Assess relevance of agency services to high need individuals and groups and prepare advice in an ongoing manner
- Closely monitor key national and state policies for relevance
- Manage policy development
- Develop broad agency directions and corporate goals using appropriate consultation processes
- Assess organisation policy against broad directions for relevance, gaps and compliance and identify any priorities and processes for reviewing, amending or developing policy
- Identify and secure resource requirements for policy development and marketing
- Advocate for appropriate policy development
- Determine strategies consistent with agency role and principles and promote within the organisation and externally as appropriate
- Select advocacy strategies and reporting mechanisms and use to target key decision-makers and others with influence in the identified policy area
- Ensure selected advocacy strategies and reporting mechanisms reflect organisation's perspectives and position