• 12-month fixed-term.

Company

For more than 20 years, people in Australia have placed their trust in Beyond Blue as a reliable source of mental health information, support and hope.

We are one of Australia’s most well-known, trusted, and visited mental health organisations. We never take this for granted. With that comes a deep responsibility to listen, to understand people’s needs and aspirations, and to ensure they are at the heart of everything we do.

We are a big blue door for many in the community: a safe and reliable place for millions of people to access information, advice and support – whether they’re well and want to stay that way, unsettled or struggling and need support, or in recovery and want to reconnect.

Be You

Delivered by Beyond Blue, in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia and headspace, Be You is Australia’s national mental health in education initiative. It equips educators with knowledge, tools and resources to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people from birth to 18 years.

Be You empowers every early learning service and school in Australia to be their most mentally healthy, positive and inclusive in ways that work for them, at a time that works for them, and all free of charge.

Be You’s vision is for all learning communities to be positive, inclusive and responsive - a place where every child, young person, educator and family is empowered to achieve their best possible mental health and wellbeing.

About this Position

The Strategic Insights Adviser, Be You is responsible for providing high value, timely, evidence-informed advice to Be You leadership to ensure that Be You remains responsive to new and emerging opportunities and can deliver its strategic priorities and vision.

The Adviser will gather insights from across Be You and the broader landscape that the initiative operates in to inform the strategic direction of the initiative across all key areas. The Adviser will proactively share these insights across Be You and work closely across the Strategy, Policy and Engagement (SPE) team and the broader Be You team to support the implementation of opportunities identified through insight gathering.

The role

• Gathering and translating insights from across Be You, Beyond Blue, government, the mental health and education sectors, and the external evidence landscape.
• Support the implementation of opportunities from these insights across the Be You team.
• Identifying and driving the delivery of strategic opportunities for Be You and providing timely recommendations and advice on how Be You can pursue these opportunities.
• Collaborating across SPE and other Be You teams to achieve shared goals by providing evidence-based advice to inform Be You’s advocacy, strategic communications, stakeholder engagement and other relevant activities.
• Providing strategic advice and supporting the delivery of Be You’s key advisory groups, in particular, Be You’s National Advisory Council.
• Leading the strategic direction and support the delivery of Be You’s Programs Directory, and advising about opportunities for its continuous improvement, risks and risk mitigations.
• Providing strategic advice and organisational support to the Executive, Heads and relevant Managers including support to prepare reports, presentations, briefs, correspondence, facilitating meetings as needed.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of systems and processes to enable effective and efficient sharing of insights across Be You, to ensure Be You remains responsive.

About you

To be successful you will hold:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in public health, health promotion, social sciences or a related discipline.
• Evidence of continued Professional Development and/or professional experience relevant to the role purpose and level.
• Experience working within or with government departments in policy related roles is highly desirable.
• Ability to be flexible and look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations, to produce innovative and effective approaches to achieving strategic priorities.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with colleagues to identify and assess strategic issues and opportunities through a community centric and evidence-informed approach.
• Success in problem solving that includes problem definition, hypotheses testing, analysis and planning.
• Demonstrated ability to access and digest information and research, and to use and translate information in a purposeful way.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse, synthesise and communicate complex information for different audiences, and to identify implications, including risks and opportunities.
• Proven experience advising and supporting across teams, fostering strong and sustainable internal and external stakeholder relationships, to help gain buy-in and deliver results.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage complexity while driving clarity, and to work independently and within a team environment.

Culture & Values

Our values are the unseen drivers of our behaviours and ultimately become the organisational culture.

• We're focused
• We're brave
• We rise
• Together

Beyond Blue is committed to fostering and preserving a workplace that values diversity and inclusion. We aim to grow and thrive as a diverse team with individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, and talents. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, ability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

How to Apply

To apply, applications should include a current CV with a cover letter that addresses how your qualifications, skills and experience would be attributes to the position and why you would consider yourself to be a cultural addition to Beyond Blue.

For detailed information about this position including the closing date, please refer to the position description attached.

Preferred candidates will be required to undertake pre-employment screening, including a National Police Check and where required, a Working with Children Check.

We encourage early applications as interviews may commence before the closing date. All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.