Join us in working together to end homelessness in Victoria

The Workforce Development and Innovation (WDI) team manages the central hub for professional development in Victoria’s Specialist Homelessness Sector (SHS), delivering live training, eLearning, and capacity-building projects designed to engage and equip practitioners with the skills and resilience they need to support people experiencing and at risk of homelessness.

The WDI team is the central provider of innovative and high-quality professional skill development and knowledge exchange for the SHS, fostering a skilled and knowledgeable workforce dedicated to ending homelessness in Victoria.

The Senior Training Practitioner brings a blend of sector knowledge and subject matter expertise, adult learning knowledge and leadership skills to engage credibly and effectively with homelessness services. They work as part of the WDI team to identify and respond to workforce development needs and opportunities, helping to build a trusted and authoritative knowledge hub shaping best practices, workforce capability and a resilient, and well-supported SHS workforce.

This role would suit an experienced senior practitioner with specialist expertise or experience who wishes to move into a capacity building and training role while maintaining their connection with frontline practice.

This is a part-time (0.8 FTE), fixed -term (12 months) role.

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.

Key responsibilities

The key responsibilities of the Senior Training Practitioner include:

1. Training Development Delivery

• Create, update, and maintain Learning Program materials and resources, including eLearns, face-to-face, and live online training, in collaboration with external trainers and the WDI team.
• Integrate subject matter expertise, research, lived experience, and practice wisdom into the development and delivery of the SHS Learning Program.
• Contribute to the development of Communities of Practice and other social peer learning models.
• Ability to embed equity-focused approaches in workforce training and development.

2. Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships across funded agencies and their staff, as well as peak bodies and government agencies as required.
• Provide a point of contact for feedback about workforce and sector challenges.
• Chair/convene stakeholder meetings as required.

3. Collaboration and flexibility within a teamwork approach

• Actively participate in team discussions and decision-making, sharing ideas, insights, and feedback to support continuous improvement processes.
• Demonstrate adaptability and willingness to adjust to changing priorities or team needs as required.
• Work effectively to gather and share relevant information and insights within the organisation.

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: Senior Training Practitioner enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.