Manager Strategic Initiatives
Djirra, Australia
Job Description
- Newly created role - make it your own
- Three-year fixed term role
- Work with a dedicated team including CEO and 2022 Melbournian of the Year, Antoinette Braybrook
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
As the Manager Strategic Initiatives, you will:
- lead development, implementation and monitoring/reporting of strategic programs, partnerships and initiatives arising from Djirra’s strategic plan
- be responsible for driving activities to achieve the strategic plan priority goals across Djirra and with key partners and stakeholders
- manage the timely development and delivery of identified programs, priorities and strategic initiatives and;
- support the development of funding applications and fundraising and donor activities.
About You
To succeed in the role, you should have demonstrated strategic advice experience, partnership management, project delivery with successful outcomes, and high-level communication skills.
In particular you should have the following:
- Demonstrated extensive knowledge and understanding of the Victorian Aboriginal community, particularly in relation to the impact of family violence on Aboriginal women
- Demonstrated ability to work with Aboriginal organisations, communities and individuals in culturally safe ways
- Previous experience in designing, facilitating and implementation of organisational and family violence client centred strategic projects in an ACCO setting.
- Demonstrated experience drawing upon Aboriginal led evidence, research and methodologies and mainstream good practice and research to inform program implementation.
- Demonstrated experience working across the program/service management cycle (planning, grant writing, design/development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation)
- Demonstrated experience in developing end to end project management tools to support high quality project implementation evaluation and monitoring activities.
Requirements
- National Police Check
- Working with Children’s Check
- Undergraduate or post-graduate qualifications (or equivalent significant work experience) in Community Services, Community Development, and/or Project Management of community, advocacy amp; service delivery projects.
- Postgraduate or technical (short courses) qualifications in program development/program management/monitoring/evaluation
Benefits
- Competitive salary - circa $130,000pa plus superannuation
- 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 in Collingwood near public transport and nearby to some great cafes, restaurants, and the Smith St shopping precinct
- Cultural Safety training in both formal and informal settings is provided
Please apply via our website. Applications must include a resume and cover letter and all applicants must answer the questions in the application form. Only applications received via the website will be considered.
If you would like to know more about the role or about the work we do, please refer to our website www.djirra.org.au and our Get Involved page to view a full copy of the Position Description. Alternatively, you can contact Teresa Kyprianou, Human Resources Advisor on 9244 3 or for a confidential discussion.
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