• Position: Part time (0.6)
• Remuneration: $90k to $100k pro rata, plus 11.5% superannuation and salary packaging
• Location: Geelong CBD (Hybrid)

About the Role

Are you an experienced Designer with a passion for supporting social change?

The Give Where You Live Foundation is seeking a Design and Innovation Lead to join our Social Impact Team and lead the Foundation’s social innovation lab (Social Lab).

Reporting to the Head of Social Impact, you will support social change in our region through facilitating design, co-design and social innovation processes with community and stakeholders and support the implementation and testing of new ideas to address social challenges impacting equity.

Responsibilities

Development, delivery and leadership:

• Develop, coordinate and lead the Social Lab, including the approaches, methods and tools used.
• Apply your stakeholder engagement and group facilitation skills to bring community and multi-sectoral stakeholders together to collaboratively explore community strengths and visions for a more equitable region, social challenges and their root causes, and a range of ideas to trial to create social change.
• Enable communities to lead their own change through nurturing local design and innovation capability and leadership.
• Actively include and engage of three fundamental perspectives - the unique role that our First Nations people hold within our community, people with lived experience of the issue and research and evidence of what is working and what is not.

Strategic relationships and stakeholder management:

• Develop, maintain and nurture key relationships whilst exploring ways to accelerate impact, social and economic change in the G21 region.
• Create environments for creativity, collaboration and impact.
• Build the conditions and culture for relationships, trust, innovation and social change to occur.
• Represent the Foundation, as required, at key events.

Operations and program management:

• Day to day management of the Social Lab.
• Identify opportunities and develop value propositions to support business development and impact goals of the Social Lab.
• Ensure cross-cutting social issues and strategic lenses are embedded in process and practice.

Who We Are

Since 1954, the Give Where You Live Foundation has driven social change in our region. As a place-based philanthropic community foundation, we partner with the community to ensure everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Our broad fundraising base enables us to focus on immediate change, making us a community foundation with a difference.

Our Vision

To be recognised as one of the most progressive foundations in Australia, using every resource to create community change. We aim to build a fairer, more equitable community in the G21 Region.

Core Values

• Trust: Foundational to all our relationships.
• Togetherness: Collective action and partnerships yield the best outcomes.
• Drive: Actions and outcomes that align with our purpose.
• Boldness: Imagination and courage to pursue better ways.
• Fun: Embracing good humour even in complex and challenging work.

Key Selection Criteria

• Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Design, or equivalent training
• Experience: Design and social innovation work experience, using the approaches, methods and processes of social design, design thinking, co-design, human centred design and systems change.
• Highly desired: experience in engaging people with lived experience in design processes and working with community organisations; place and asset-based community development; community engagement to increase local and inclusive community participation, democratic processes and ownership in change initiatives.
• Skills: Proven ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders, effective interpersonal and problem-solving skills, curiosity, creativity, excellent communication and strong organisational skills.
• Adaptability: Ability to work independently, take initiative and make sound decisions in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

Please read the attached position description attached below before applying. The Foundation recognises the broad list of KSC therefore applicants who meet a number of the criteria and come with a desire to learn and apply the KSC, are strongly encouraged to apply.

For enquiries about this role, please contact Meg Price on 0438 048 875 or via email at [email protected] using the subject line: Design and Innovation Lead - Geelong enquiry via EthicalJobs.