
Turning ideas, evidence, and strategy into clear, compelling impact.
About the Role
A role where strong writing meets real impact - helping shape the ideas, evidence, and
practice behind Parkerville’s most important work. As the Senior Officer – Strategic Writing, Tenders and Policy, you’ll create clear, compelling, evidence-based content that supports tenders, grants, policy development, and key organisational documents. Working within the Centre for Excellence, you’ll turn practice, research, data, and operational insights into well-structured writing that tells a strong story.
You’ll also support managers and subject matter experts to strengthen
the quality and clarity of their work. This includes drafting and refining
policies, procedures, business cases, proposals, and submissions, as well as
supporting review and approval processes.
You bring:
Why Join Us?
Parkerville offers the opportunity to contribute to
meaningful strategic work in a workplace committed to child safety, inclusion,
and continuous improvement. You will be based at Burswood, with the ability to
work from other Parkerville locations as required.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working across
teams, shaping organisational messaging, and helping secure strong outcomes
through quality writing and documentation.
Essential Requirements
Additional Information
Parkerville Children and Youth Care has zero tolerance for alcohol and
drugs.
Applications close at 4:00pm on Monday, 8th June 2026, however
applications will be assessed as they are received and the vacancy may close
earlier.
Please contact Sarah Lewis via email on sarah.lewis@parkerville.org.au if you would like more information.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care is committed to keeping
children safe and requires all staff to comply with its Code of Conduct and
Safeguarding Practice and Behaviour Requirements.
The role also requires participation in organisational and
role-specific compliance training, and the ability to undertake other
reasonable duties as directed by line management, Senior Leadership Group, or
CorpEx.

The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.