Join us in working together to end homelessness in Victoria.

This is an exciting role designed to enhance our lived experience programs. The Director, Lived Experience Programs, will provide strategic leadership and governance oversight for lived experience initiatives at CHP. This role is responsible for developing and implementing a Lived Experience strategy that ensures lived experience voices are embedded across the organisation's governance, policy development, and program delivery. Applicants with lived experience will be looked upon favourably.

CHP is the peak Victorian body representing organisations and individuals with a commitment to ending homelessness. CHP works to achieve this purpose through providing leadership in policy development, advocacy, capacity building and working in partnership with people who are or who have been without a home.

Organisational context

Vision

An end to homelessness in Victoria.

Purpose

To work with, for, and alongside the specialist homelessness sector to co-create, support, and deliver on the solutions to end homelessness in Victoria.

We believe…

• Homelessness should be rare, brief, and non-recurring.
• Self-determination is the pathway to ending Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homelessness.
• Ending homelessness is possible.
• Homelessness is the outcome of structural inequity and inequality.
• In diversity, equity, and inclusion for every Victorian
• A collective voice for the sector will build more power and have more influence than any single voice alone.
• People with living and lived experience are crucial experts in ending homelessness.
• An equipped and resourced specialist homelessness sector can help us end homelessness.

The key responsibilities of the position include:  

Strategic Leadership and Governance

• Develop and implement a Lived Experience strategy.
• Oversee governance and accountability of lived experience programs.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, funding, and reporting requirements.
• Ensure that services and programs are designed and evaluated with a lived experience lens, focusing on outcomes and impact. 

Lived Experience Workforce and Leadership Development

• Champion the inclusion and empowerment of people with lived experience, ensuring their voices are heard and valued. 
• Lead and support the development of a lived experience workforce, ensuring that staff are trained and equipped to work effectively with people with lived experience. 

Stakeholder Engagement and Advocacy

• Represent CHP at sector forums, government consultants.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including lived experience advisory groups, boards, and other relevant bodies.
• Drive sector-wide collaboration.
• Ensure CHP is recognised as a leader in lived experience governance.

Change Management and Continuous Improvement

• Lead organisational change to ensure lived experience perspectives are central to activities and policy.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of policies and practices that promote lived experience inclusion and equity.
• Ensure lived experience programs are financially sustainable, scalable, and responsive to sector needs.
• Work closely with the workforce development and practice excellence team to develop training and capacity building initiatives.
• Stay up to date on best practices and emerging trends in lived experience engagement and co-production.

Benefits and culture

• 4 weeks paid annual leave (17.5% leave loading), plus bonus leave in between Christmas and New Year
• Salary packaging
• Hybrid and flexible working conditions

Other relevant information

• To be eligible to apply for this position you must have the right to work in Australia (i.e., be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or hold a valid work permit or visa).
• All appointments are subject to reference and pre-employment checks. A preferred candidate with an adverse employment history or criminal record will not necessarily be precluded from employment with Council to Homeless Persons, and each application will be considered on its merits.

If you would like to discuss this role in more detail, please contact [email protected], using the subject line: Director - Lived Experience Programs enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.