Manager, Community Engagement
Djirra, Australia
Job Description
- Fixed term (12 month), full-time position
- Convenient inner-city location
- Exciting and dynamic role
About the Organisation
Djirra is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation with over 20 years’ experience accompanying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and their children, on their individual journeys. We find solutions through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women sharing their stories, journeys, and experiences. Djirra celebrates women’s strength and resilience. We are committed to a future without family violence.
We deliver holistic, culturally safe, specialist family violence support, legal services and case management, alongside cultural and wellbeing workshops, and programs. Our services have state-wide reach, touching every part of Victoria to meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Self-determination is the foundation of everything we do.
Djirra amplifies the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. We advocate for system-wide change to improve access to justice, eliminate systemic violence, and strengthen women’s resilience.
We are an active member of the National Family Violence Prevention and Legal Services Forum, the peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are experiencing or at risk of family violence.
About the Role
Community Engagement (CE) is a program of Djirra that develops and delivers a unique range of culturally safe support services, scheduled activities and workshops for cultural connection and personal interest, and a suite of community and mainstream events and campaigns.
The Community Engagement Managers will preferably be Aboriginal women whose links within community, combined with their extensive personal and professional connections with Aboriginal women and an understanding of the impacts of family violence, will ensure that Community Engagement operates with a cultural lens that respects and celebrates Aboriginal women’s business.
Together the Managers will take responsibility for ensuring that cultural perspectives permeate all aspects of the work of Community Engagement and that CE staff members are supported to work effectively and safely within a trauma informed framework.
The Managers will share responsibility for service planning, evaluation, and reporting, managing budgets, funding submissions and new initiatives, representing Djirra externally, as requested, and collaborating effectively within and contributing positively to the Djirra management team.
In addition to this generic role each manager oversees a specific portfolio within Community Engagement, either Early Intervention and Prevention (EIP) or the Koori Women’s Place (KWP). This role overseas the Koori Women’s Place (KWP).
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
Requirements
Mandatory
- National Police Check
- Working with Children’s Check
- Drivers Licence
Desirable
- A relevant tertiary qualification or significant experience
Applications will close as soon as a suitable candidate is found.
Benefits
- Attractive salary packaging options (including meals and entertainment)
- Generous leave provisions apply
- Employee Assistance Program with supportive, confidential counselling for personal and work concern
- Conveniently located a few hundred metres from the Eastern Freeway entrance and Victoria Park train station and nearby to some great cafes, restaurants, and the Smith St shopping precinct
- Cultural awareness training in both formal and informal settings is provided.