About the role

We are looking for an experienced facilitator to guide and inform design, implementation, facilitation and evaluation of multiple at-risk psycho-education programs that reduce gendered violence.

Competitive remuneration, plus salary packaging benefit, is offered together with ongoing professional and career development as well as opportunities for personal growth.

What Jesuit Social Services can offer you

• An organisation that lives its values, through its day to day work
• A welcoming and supportive relational environment
• A comprehensive Induction and Orientation program
• Ongoing training and development related to your role
• Employee assistance program
• A competitive salary plus salary packaging benefits
• Generous leave

About the organisation

Jesuit Social Services is a social change organisation working to build a just society where all people can live to their full potential. We reflect on the critical factors shaping our contemporary world; the social, political and economic contexts, and we adapt our practice to work with those most in need.

Since 1977, Jesuit Social Services has provided services to some of the most disadvantaged in our community.

We place a high priority on advocacy and are a leader in policy development and research.

About the program

This role will be focused on the implementation of an early intervention project in non-mainstream school and community settings, with boys and young men at risk of using violence. The project aims to:

Trial models across several pilot sites that engage at-risk boys and young men aged 12-25 years, from diverse communities, to challenge harmful gender norms, promote more flexible ideas about what it means to be a man, address violence-supportive attitudes and behaviours and build skills (e.g. self-regulation; challenging sexist behaviour as a bystander) that can contribute to reducing violence.

Build the capacity of key workforces to work with boys and young men to prevent violence including (but not limited to) by promoting positive conversations about gender, challenging rigid masculine stereotypes and engaging as a bystander.

Working in collaboration with an independent evaluator, build the evidence base to understand the extent to which the program is likely to improve outcomes for participants.

About you

This role will suit a candidate with the following skills and experience:

1. Therapeutic experience in the design, delivery, scale up and embedding of early intervention projects to reduce adolescent violence.
2. Ability to understand and challenge violence supportive attitudes and implement relationship-based strategies to help young people regulate and learn alternative ways to problem solve without violence and ways of being.
3. Experience creating and delivering therapeutic projects with those who have lived experience of trauma and violence, knowledge of the major risk factors for youth violence, including exposure to risk factors during developmental years.
4. Demonstrated experience in the design and delivery of trauma informed and relationship-based practice training to improve workforce capacity to support at- risk young people.
5. Demonstrated experience working with multicultural youth, using or at-risk of using violence, applying a variety of approaches and prevention strategies, in small groups, holding violence behaviours to account while displaying a non-judgmental attitude.

How to Apply

• Click "Apply Now".
• Upload your resume and cover letter incorporating your responses to the Key Selection Criteria from the Position Description.
• For further information please contact Brett Phillips, Manager – Early Intervention and Strategic Projects on 0439 734 053

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and the closing date may be subject to change without notice.

Jesuit Social Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, sexuality, disability or religious affiliation.

We strongly encourage applications from all community members including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, people with a disability, people of culturally diverse backgrounds and working parents.

Jesuit Social Services is a Child Safe organisation and is committed to protecting children and young people from harm. We require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening process prior to appointment.

A position description is attached.