• Senior Leadership Team
• Based in South East Queensland (Woolloongabba or Logan)
• Level: Level 8 SCHCADS Award plus leaving loading and 10.5% superannuation. Access to salary sacrifice. Access to home garaging of a QPASTT car.
• Reporting to: CEO

about the role

The Senior Leader of Youth Engagement and Community Partnerships will lead QPASTT’s community-based healing including youth engagement. The position is responsible for ensuring that QPASTT’s relationships with communities from refugee backgrounds are collaborative, impactful and continue to be built on foundations of safety, trust and mutual respect. This role will ensure that survivors of torture and trauma are empowered and supported to achieve meaningful community-based healing.

QPASTT works throughout Queensland. We are a purpose driven agency committed to the greater good. Our drive is to contribute to the Queensland community in ways that make it a better place to belong for refugee survivors of torture and trauma. The clients and communities who we support are at the centre of our service and we strive to meet their aspirations and needs.All our leaders have pride in our diversity and feel comfortable managing staff from a range of cultural and religious backgrounds.

QPASTT encourages applicants to read the Full Position Description and Information for Applicants before applying from the attachments below.

What you will bring to the role and to QPASTT

Required Experience and Skills

• It is highly desirable that you have a lived refugee or refugee-like experience.
• Relevant academic qualifications that will contribute to our approach to community engagement, youth work, community-based healing and survivor empowerment.
• Strong understanding of the refugee experience and community-based healing and youth engagement methodologies.
• Values based leadership including experience in managing people and teams.
• Transferable experience in co-designing and co-implementing community engagement activities with young people and communities from refugee backgrounds.
• Experience in identifying opportunities to build, embed and champion the voices of people with lived experience of refugee-related trauma.
• Leadership experience in human service delivery, risk management, diversity inclusion and achieving key strategic objectives.
• Ability to initiate, establish, and sustain a broad range of internal and external relationships. Experience in developing trusting and strong relationships with community and sector leaders and stakeholders that builds QPASTT’s specialist influence.
• Successful experience in change management, particularly to drive impact, innovation and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to see the ‘big picture’ and understand the strategic context of QPASTT’s vision and purpose.

Character

• Commitment to the vision and mission of QPASTT including the recovery aspirations and needs of communities from refugee backgrounds.
• Commitment to quality and impact –driven to provide healthy governance and develop QPASTT’s operational capability so that it can meet its vision and mission.
• Engaging others – connects with others, listens, reads people and situations, communicates tactfully.
• Curious – thinks analytically and critically, displays curiosity, mitigates analytical and decision-making biases.
• Honest and courageous – shows courage, ‘finds appropriate balance between leading from the front and leading from behind’, leads with integrity.
• Resilient – models resilience and maintains an environment that enables resilience.
• Self-aware and agile – encourages feedback on performance, can self-assess, adapt approach, show commitment to development.

Capabilities

• Implements strategy - aligns their work with strategic objectives and QPASTT’s vision.
• Supports organisational performance - suggests and acts on opportunities to do things differently and improves processes to achieve gains in effectiveness and efficiency.
• Communicates clearly - tailors messages so that they are clear, succinct, and resonate with their different audiences. Ensures that written documentation and verbal presentations reflect relevant organisational aspirations and sensitivities.
• Builds internal relationships - contributes to the Senior Leadership Team and works collaboratively with others across the organisation. Takes an organisation-wide view.
• Builds external relationships - interacts effectively with external stakeholders.
• Inclusive - welcomes and values diversity and contributes to an inclusive working environment where differences are acknowledged and respected.
• Manages and delivers on work priorities - plans and organises self to deliver work commitments to required timeframes and quality standards.
• Develops others - share own experiences and learnings and demonstrates and teaches specific technical skills.

A position description is attached.

Should you wish to speak with someone about this role, please contact Jamila Padhee, CEO on mobile 0434 534 614 or [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Leader - Youth Engagement and Community Partnerships - Woolloongabba / Logan enquiry via EthicalJobs.