Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 14th Apr 2022
- Melbourne > Melbourne CBD
As the peak body for Victorian sexual assault and harmful sexual behaviours services, Sexual Assault Services Victoria (SASVic) provides leadership in preventing and responding to sexual assault. This is a time of significant growth for SASVic, responding to profound changes in community attitudes to and government focus on sexual violence. We have recently changed from a network (CASA Forum) to a peak body, expanded our membership, taken on new projects, expanded our staff team and are working to shape landmark state reforms. We are now building a new staff team so we can better drive policy and practice improvements.
The Royal Commission into Family Violence recommended that the sexual assault and family violence sectors strengthen their shared work (Recommendation 31). As Integration and Innovation Team Leader you will help drive this work, through helping develop shared case work approaches and joint training between specialist FV and sexual assault services. More broadly, you will help develop innovative approaches to our work, aiming to support our members in strengthening their practice and working with other sectors to strengthen approaches to sexual violence.
Victoria’s specialist family violence services and specialist sexual assault services are highly complementary and frequently interconnected, providing different specialist services to a similar client group and, at times, the same client. There is a high level of respect and collaboration, with our peak bodies, services and workers wanting to work even more closely together. As Integration and Innovations Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in making this possible. More broadly, you will identify opportunities for new approaches that will strengthen integration, and, more broadly, victim survivors’ ability to recover from sexual violence. You will also manage team members.
You will report to the CEO and manage the Sector Development Advisor, Trainee Support Advisor and Integration and Innovation (Orange Door) Advisor. You will develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with your team colleagues and all SASVic staff to achieve our shared aims.
You will do this by:
Your work will help specialist sexual assault practitioners and services, and other services and sectors, provide the best possible response to victim/survivors of sexual assault in the context of family violence. You will work closely with expert practice leaders from across the state – our members ensure that our work is grounded in the reality of victim/survivors and the services that respond to them.
You will have scope both to build up your own team, and to shape the peak itself.
We are located in a central office location but also offer flexibility to work partly from home (if you choose to).
We want to develop a work team that is representative of our community, and consequently, we actively encourage people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, people of colour, LGBTIQ and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to apply.
We encourage applications from people with a disability and will make any reasonable adjustment that you need both in the interview process and on the job – if you need assistance or if you have any questions about the recruitment or application process, please contact Gabriella Muzsnai at 04 79 138 019 via phone or email her at [email protected] using the subject line: Integration and Innovation Team Leader enquiry via EthicalJobs.
We are hoping to shortlist on the 4th of May in the first instance but will keep the position open until it is filled.