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Your chance to contribute to an evolving sector at an exciting time.

A six month position has become available to work with the Neighbourhood House network on issues and opportunities for the sector.

Available until mid Dec 2010 with negotiable hours (23 - 30 hrs per week), this position is creative and varied, with high levels of autonomy.

Ideally you would have access to a car and a license (mileage is reimbursed).

This is a fixed term casual position and pays between $30-35 per hour dependant on experience.

Applications should address two key questions (instead of the selection criteria):

1. Why do you want the position?
2. And what are your key achievements relevant to this role?

Please contact: Jan Thorpe  on treasurer@networkwest.net for more information and scroll down for Position Description

 
Closing date for applications: 10th June 2010, 

At the committee meeting last week the Network West committee endorsed the ASU log of claims in the collective agreement negiotiation and noted that many organisations within the network operate at higher levels than this claim.

They also endorsed the Pay Up and Respect campaigns, in effect:

• endorsing the community rally June 10 - 11am @ Federation Square

• enabling and supporting ASU workplace meetings, where requested, so that staff can be updated about the equal pay case;

• allowing staff to attend the rally;

• publicising the dates and times of the rally in your publications, work intranet and relevant websites;

• publicising and promoting the rally within your networks.

Go to:

www.payup.org.au for more info and to support the campaign

I've been getting enquiries about people who have their RTO audit in the near future and have had questions and suggestions to a successfull audit.
Some useful tips so far include:

•     * Check your RTO certificate for the date when your registration will run out. If its soon, so is your audit.
•     * If you have an audit coming up you must send the fee of $2000 to pay for the auditor (before they'll send the auditor).
•     * ACFE audits are very different to AQTF audits and have very different requirements.
•     * Check your scope of registration, under AQTF2007 you can be audited for any course on your scope and you should be deleivering ALL courses on your scope. (apparently it is not a hard process to remove courses from the scope)
•     * If you are deleivering accredited modules within a pre accredited course/class, make sure your modules are registeredwith NTIS
•     * Do a pre audit. Many centres are spending money to get a consultant out to audit the books before the auditor gets there. I've heard this is expensive but money well spent.
•     * Ask around to your fellow centres who have been audited and how they went
•     * Those who've been through audit, start thinking about compliance for AQTF 2010 as it is going to be very much more rigorous and will need years of prep.

 
Please reply to the forum and add more tips and hints.
Be aware this is a public forum and is accessible to anyone who wishes to look (though you are welcome to remain anonomous).
 
Good Luck and feel free to call and discuss as well as add to the conversation on here.
 
Regards,
Matilda