ORGANISATIONAL SUMMARY

For more than 40 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters Australia (BBBS) has provided young people (7 to 17 years) in need of additional support, guidance and friendship, with a caring, trained and supported volunteer mentor, who becomes a long-term positive role model.

We provide employees, volunteers, young people and their family with an excellent organisational culture built on the values of empowerment, early intervention, respect, and commitment.

JOB SUMMARY

BBBS is expanding its program to focus on supporting young people in the Western suburbs of Melbourne.

Within this role you will work closely with partner organisations, together providing a mentoring alliance for the western suburbs, called Westside Rise.

You will be responsible for providing mentoring services to young people within the targeted region and delivery of volunteer screening and training for mentors from partner organisations as required.

You will work autonomously in the Western suburbs with the support of the Leadership Team and Staff located in the Melbourne Head office.

The job involves three key focus areas:

• Coordination of Community Based Mentoring Program in the Western Suburbs
• Community Engagement
• Collaborating with the western alliance to meet funding outcomes

With support from the central support team, you will be responsible for:

• Recruitment, screening, assessment training, matching of adult volunteer mentors
• Recruitment and assessment of young people (mentees)
• Support of the young person/mentor relationship for the duration of their involvement with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

The role location is flexible, either working from home, at head office or community hubs in the Western Suburbs.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• A self-starter with leadership and communication experience
• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work or other related discipline
• An understanding of the issues associated with assessing, supervising & supporting volunteers
• Demonstrated ability to foster strong local partnerships and engage with local stakeholders
• Well-developed IT skills including Microsoft office suite, database management and ability to learn and use staff collaboration and e-Learning platform
• Ability to build rapport and relate to a number of different stakeholder groups from a wide variety of backgrounds
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written communication skills
• Understanding of adolescent child development
• Understanding and experience of schools, education and social services system
• Understanding of mentoring and leadership philosophies and best practice
• Ability to facilitate meetings, workshops and training
• Must have a current unrestricted drivers licence
• Experience in developing relationship programs in wellbeing and resilience for young people highly desirable

REMUNERATION

• SCHADS Award Level 4.1 to 4.3 depending on experience
• Salary Packaging Available

HOURS

• Permanent Part-Time - FTE 0.4 (with the potential for expansion)

A position description is attached.