Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 27th Jun 2022
Brave Foundation is an Australian not-for-profit charity that equips expecting and parenting young people in Australia with resources, referral, and education opportunities to facilitate happy, healthy, and skilled families over time.
Our vision is to see future generations thrive!
We believe in the boundless potential of young parents and our mission is to collaboratively build a village of support, by creating a network of meaningful connections to ideas, people, services, and resources.
Brave Mentors are based around Australia and operate online delivering our virtual program to teens parents who are isolated by geography or circumstance.
The Social Economic Empowerment Department (SEED) is powered by Brave Foundation, its learnings and experience. SEED is the pioneering and innovative division of Brave.
SEED has the bold aim of creating a pre-social services sector that ultimately see’s Australia lead the world in social economic empowerment for our citizens, through systemic change.
Brave Foundation has successfully secured funding from federal and state governments and important philanthropic partners and as a result is now in a strong position to further build the capability of the organisation with the appointment of a new Head of Transformation.
The Head of Transformation will have a pivotal role in establishing Brave as a Centre of Excellence for programs related to expecting and parenting young people in Australia.
Working as a member of the Brave Foundation Senior Leadership team and drawing upon organisational expertise, you will be instrumental in supporting Brave to develop an evidenced based compelling case for sustainable funding for government and other partners.
You will lead a small team and will coordinate continuous improvement initiatives and establish Brave’s new Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning function. Leading the work to refine our Theory of Change, you will ensure Brave is able to generate and leverage the research and data required to support our goal of becoming a Centre of Excellence. You will establish and refine our ways of working to enable Brave to enhance and learn from our core program and build and maintain relationships that support the needs of young parents.
Initially work will be focused on leading a suite of continuous improvement initiatives that have been designed to improve the quality of Braves core program ‘Supporting Expecting & Parenting Teens’ (SEPT).
You will work at both a strategic and operational level, to ensure activities are planned and progressing in line with Braves strategic goals and vision. You will be adept at influencing and at harnessing the knowledge, time, and efforts of others to achieve outcomes for the benefit of the young people and communities we serve.
This position is full time (negotiable), fixed term contract. The Head of Transformation will ideally based in Melbourne, Australia, however Brave is open to and supports flexible working arrangements.
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