• Ward: Qld TPEO (SCHCADS) Award 2010 Crisis Accommodation Worker (1a)
• Level 2.1 $36.23 per hour
• 20 hours per week
• 12 month LOCUM POSITION (with possibility of extending to a permanent position, dependent upon funding)

About Windana Support Centre

Windana Support Centre is a refuge run by women for women and children. We provide short term accommodation and support to women and children escaping domestic and family violence. Our framework for service delivery is informed by a feminist perspective, which embraces social justice values, is child focused and culturally sensitive. We work with women and children using strength-based practices and strive to create an environment in which the strengths of women and children are celebrated and affirmed.

The service is based on a hierarchical management model in which staff and management committee members have recognised roles and responsibilities, every person’s contribution is valued and equal participation in decision making is encouraged and facilitated.

Windana believes that domestic violence results from the interplay of power imbalances, inherent inequities and particular attitudes expressed within society. We also adhere to the belief that the use of violence by one person against another is unacceptable and that women and children have the right to be safe from violence. Windana is committed to actively participating in the prevention, intervention and education strategies that will put an end to domestic and family violence.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop clerical systems to ensure accountability and maintain confidentiality
• Respond clearly to administrative enquiries
• To provide administrative assistance to the manager in the areas of governance support, human resource management and accountability to funding bodies as needed
• Assist finance manager with compliance reporting
• To ensure first aid, emergency food and stationary supplies are sufficient at all times
• To ensure all registers, including membership, first aid, key, maintenance and asset registers, are kept up to date
• To assist the Housing Support Worker with tenancy maintenance issues
• To research and assist with fundraising opportunities
• To respond to administrative tasks that may result from staff and management committee meetings
• To assist with projects and events as required
• To maintain organisational vehicles including service requirements
• To collect mail and record incoming and outgoing mail in the mail register

Other Requirements

• A current Blue Card (Working with Children check)
• Senior First Aid Certificate (can be acquired)
• Possess a current unencumbered driver’s licence

Due to the nature of the services provided by Windana Support Centre Inc, we adopt Section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, which enables the service to employ women only on the basis of “genuine occupational requirements.”

A full position description is available below.