Aps 4 Compensation Support Officer - Melbourne, Australia - Department of Veterans' Affairs

Department of Veterans' Affairs

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Melbourne, Australia

1 week ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

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Description

Salary Range:
$79,764 - $85,074 + Attractive Superannuation

The Client Benefits Division (CBD) delivers products and services to give effect to defined DVA policy outcomes.

The Division is responsible for case management including registration, assessments, determinations, reconsiderations and reviews, as well as operational support activities such as quality assurance and compliance, performance reporting, and business coordination and improvement, business systems administration.

VEA Compensation and Support (VCS) is a multi-disciplinary branch responsible for the management and assessment of compensation claims and the divisional focus on procedures, planning and delegate learning and development.

Our clients are serving and former defence force members, veterans and legatees. Depending on the dates and type of service, eligibility can fall under one or more of the applicable legislations.

Duties

Startup claims and follow up outstanding information and keep orderly claims management practices, including appropriate dates for tasks and ensuring the ISH claim timeline has a clear updated status recorded.
Assist members of the veteran community (DVA clients) to access DVA programs
Work with DVA clients to provide information to progress their claim or to access interim supports.
Take advantage of all learning and development
Review the status of claims under investigation and progress the claims as per the request of the team leader or claims manager (primarily gathering outstanding information)
Demonstrate highlevel client service skills, including phone & written contact with clients & internal/external stakeholders
Be available to receive direct phone calls from clients
Staff Allocations allocating work to staff
Respond in a timely manner to stakeholder requests
Accurately recording work completed in a logbook and providing that to your supervisor on a regular basis (as outlined by your supervisor)
Placing appropriate documentation on client's electronic file (filing and titling, correctly)
Meet all KPIs on a weekly basis that will focus on expected number of claim updates to be completed and the work will have a randomised QA check periodically, with an expected result of >95% accuracy
Ability to work efficiently as part of a small team to meet both individual and team performance
Undertake other administrative duties as directed

Eligibility

Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS).
All applicants external to DVA offered employment will be required to successfully undergo a preengagement screening check, even if they have a security clearance. The screening check is conducted in accordance with the Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework requirements.

Notes

Where a non-ongoing position is offered, the role will be filled for an initial specified term of up to18 months.

A merit pool of suitable applicants may be created which may be used to fill future ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies should they become available over the next 18 months.

DVA is committed to improving the data skills and capability of our workforce to underpin our goal of becoming a leading data-driven organisation.