• Innovative specialist NFP directly supporting women and gender diverse people
  
• Strong values orientation
  
• Advocating for structural change to end gendered violence
  
• Voluntary roles

About Project Respect

Project Respect is a not-for-profit, non-faith-based community organisation that supports women and gender diverse people with experiences in the sex industry, and women and gender diverse people with experiences of sexual exploitation. We work from a feminist and intersectional framework, which positions women and gender diverse people at the centre of our work and recognises the structural systems which underpin and perpetuate gender inequality. Our service provision understands the intersection of family violence, sexual violence, and sexual exploitation, including from intimate partners and family members.

Project Respect’s purposes are to:

• Support women and gender diverse people with experience in the sex industry to achieve self- directed goals, including equitable access to services,
• Support women and gender diverse people who have experienced trafficking for sexual exploitation, whether current, historic, international, or domestic,
• Advocate for structural change to end sexual exploitation.

We provide a platform to elevate and amplify the voices of, while also being informed and guided by, those with past and present lived experience (including from our Lived Experience Advisory Group).

About the roles

With a skilled and dedicated Committee of Management and staff, and with a desire to consolidate our impact and collaborative capacity, Project Respect would like to invite applications from suitably qualified candidates with aligned values to join the Committee and contribute to the organisation’s strategic direction and governance.

Project Respect is seeking to appoint three/four new members of the Committee of Management and have identified the following priority skill/experience areas to complement the existing skills mix of the current members:

• Strategic Financial Management (ideally CA/CPA Professional Membership)
• Legal specialist (ideally women’s legal services or corporate law)
• Sector strategist/thought leader/well networked
• Lived Experience Advocate, either with experiences in the sex industry, or experiences of sexual exploitation

In addition, applicants should possess some of the following:

• Knowledge and experience of contemporary best practice corporate governance (particularly in the not-for-profit context).
• Ability to think strategically and to contribute effective guidance on the strategic objectives of Project Respect, ideally within the context of relevant State and Commonwealth Family Violence and Modern Slavery National Plans, policies, and priorities.
• High level reputation and networks in the broader business and Public Sector, as well as local social justice, women’s health communities and associated key stakeholders and the ability to effectively engage and communicate with those stakeholders.

Applicants with the following would be highly regarded:

• Previous experience at board level (particularly NFP or FDV-related boards) and strong governance skills,
• Knowledge, or understanding and appreciation, of the implications arising from both State and Commonwealth reforms, decriminalisation of sex work, modern slavery, and family violence,
• Knowledge, experience, and networks in sex work, women’s well-being including government policy, immigration, women’s health, women’s legal services, resource allocation; and/or

• A formal governance qualification from an Australian institution.

Note: In accordance with our Constitution, Project Respect utilises the exemption provisions of S88 and S28 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 to only employ people who identify as a woman or are gender diverse. Applicants for Committee of Management positions must meet this criteria.

Additional information or questions about the roles can be directed to the Chair, at [email protected] using the subject line: Committee of Management - Volunteer Position enquiry via EthicalJobs.