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Training Lead

The Foundation for Young Australians

Exciting new opportunity to join a dynamic team!

  • Full time position with salary of $95,000 excluding superannuation
  • Located in Melbourne, Virtual/Hybrid work arrangements will be considered

Role summary

You will work with the Capacity Building team to design and deliver a year-long place-based program for young people aged 15 - 17. The first program will take place in Melbourne’s West, starting in April 2022. Over-time, you will scale the program to multiple locations across Australia - reaching hundreds of young people.

You are passionate about pedagogy and praxis. You believe in young people’s power to achieve transformative systems change. You know that we are more powerful when we act together.

You centre lived experience and evidence to ensure best-practice in your work with young people. You are collaborative and a skilled facilitator and educator.

About the Foundation for Young Australians

Today’s generation of young people are facing unprecedented and intersecting crises. They also have the skills, insight and ambition to address them. At FYA, our vision is that young people have the power to beat injustice and transform the future. We back them with the trust, resources, skills, and connections to make change.

FYA has an incredible history, focused strategy, dynamic team and board, and a unique resource base. We are now shaping a future-focused organisation committed to the highest standards of professionalism, culture and conditions, diversity, and impact -- all centered around our key constituents: young people.

Our work is guided by a commitment to beating injustice and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, young people, people of colour, women, disabled people, people who are LGBTIQA+ communities, and more. We acknowledge our sector (philanthropy and nonprofits) has systematically excluded these communities.

What we offer

  • A dynamic workplace. FYA House is a historic building in a Melbourne laneway. In 2020 we’re working virtually - and reimagining a future workplace that combines the best of in-person connection and virtual efficiency.
  • Generous leave conditions and flexible work. FYA is committed to a flexible workplace, and offers opportunities for part-time work, 12 weeks paid parental leave, paid cultural and ceremonial leave, and paid leave for your birthday.
  • Attractive remuneration. Our key asset is our team, and we are committed to recruiting and retaining world class leaders in youth engagement and social change. We pay competitively, and also offer salary packaging.
  • Extensive commitment to professional development. We’re growing fast, and believe that investing in our team to grow with us is essential whether that be taking a class, or taking on a new role. We provide healthy professional development budgets for each team member.

Our approach to capacity building

We are looking for someone who shares our commitment to the following principles which have been informed by Black, Indigenous and disability justice activists:

  • First Nations justice: We build and nurture long-term relationships with First Nations communities. We are led by the vision and values of First Nations peoples. We combine co-creation and self-determination - both sharing the burden and responsibility of decolonisation and anti-racist work while also shifting resource and decision-making power to First Nations communities.
  • More depth than breadth: We prioritise connection and moving at the pace of trust while recognising the importance of achieving critical mass to shift power and systems. We work to build and nurture meaningful relationships and connections with, and between, young people, their communities and the world.
  • Leadership from the most impacted: We prioritise backing young people with lived experience of structural injustice to transform those structures.
  • Holistic wellbeing: We are proactive and plan for wellbeing and the wellbeing of the people we work with, acknowledging that wellbeing looks different for everyone. We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term.
  • Power with, to and within not power over: We choose power with, power to and power within, not power-over. Power with is shared power that grows out of collaboration and relationships. It is built on respect, mutual support, solidarity and collaborative decision-making. Power to is built on the idea that every person has a unique contribution to make in shaping the world. Our work is to build and unleash that power. Power within is related to a person’s sense of self-worth and self-knowledge. It is what enables power to and power with. Power over is built on force, coercion, domination and control and motivates largely through fear.
  • Intersectionality: Our struggles and solutions are connected. We work across sectors, issues and differences. We work across movements and within them to activate meaningful connection, solidarity and collective power.
  • Recognising wholeness: People have inherent worth and dignity. Each person is full of history and life experience. We recognise there are multiple ways that people contribute to social change.

Who we’re looking for

  • Experience managing projects including strategy design, project planning and delivery, budget tracking, stakeholder relationship management and impact evaluation
  • Experience leading training, movement or capacity building for young people and/or social changemakers including curriculum design, facilitation and 1:1 mentoring
  • Lived expertise and relationships in First Nations justice, racial justice or disability justice movements
  • Experience managing people including coaching, motivating and supporting a diverse range of people while caring for them and their wellbeing
  • Strong proficiency with key workplace tools such as Google apps, Slack etc

Additional requirements

  • A Working with Children Check is a mandatory requirement of this position - we’ll help you with this if you are successful.
  • Applicants for this role must have a valid, legal right to work in Australia.

Click Apply Now or head to the ‘work with us’ section of our website and follow the application process.

  • Please include a detailed resume (no more than 3 pages)
  • You will be asked two questions in your application in which you’re required to provide brief answers (no more than 500 words each), including:
    • A description of yourself and what excites you about this role and working for FYA
    • An explanation of how your experience relates to what we’re looking for
    • We are open to receiving this as a written piece e.g. poetry or essay (no more than 500 words each), a video or audio (no more than five mins). For video or audio applications please send your responses to [email protected]

A position description is attached.

For more information or a confidential discussion about the role contact:

Laura O’Connell Rapira
Executive Director, Capacity Building
[email protected]

For more information about the recruitment process:

Azianni Mustapa
People and Culture Coordinator
[email protected], using the subject line: Training Lead enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Training Lead Job Description

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