ABOUT US AND THE ROLE

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.

• Tenure: Til June 30 2023, with the possibility of extension (funding dependent)
• Salary: 100,000 pro rata
• FTE: 4 day a week
• Office location: Our office is currently in the CBD.
• Flexibility: This role requires dedicated days based in the office (restrictions permitting), with all staff being able to work on Tuesdays (for membership meetings) and Wednesdays (for internal staff meetings). There is flexibility for partial ongoing work from home and scope to negotiate working hours to accommodate caring or other responsibilities.
• Travel: some travel may be required.

ABOUT THE ROLE

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.

Key SASVic relationships

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.

Roles and functions

You will do this by:

• Developing and delivering joint training and supporting resources on working in complex contexts where family violence and sexual assault co-occur, in partnership with Safe and Equal.
• Developing and documenting shared case work models and approaches between FV and SA services
• Identifying and developing innovations to strengthen the integration of services and overall strengthen victim survivors’ ability to recover from trauma caused by sexual violence
• Contributing to SASVic’s policy development and advocacy.
• Resourcing SASVic members to participate in relevant developmental work, including by providing secretariat support to relevant member working groups and communities of practice
• Managing team members.
• Participating in organisational development activities required to support the growth of SASVic

What you bring to the role

• Relevant formal qualifications or experience, such as qualifications in social sciences, social work, project management or related disciplines. In the absence of formal qualifications, relevant equivalent experience will be considered.
• Well-developed project management skills
• An understanding of the service system in relation to sexual assault
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement and capacity building skills, with the ability to facilitate problem-solving in complex environments
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including presentation and group facilitation skills
• Experience managing staff members
• Excitement about helping shape an organisation undertaking significant growth
• Familiarity with the sexual assault sector, or similar sectors, and of the intersections between family violence and sexual violence.
• Feminist understanding of the dynamics, causes and impacts of sexual violence, at an individual, social and political level
• A deep commitment to ending sexual assault and the rights and recovery of victim/survivors
• Experience working in a membership organisation will be well-received

Additionally, you

• Must be legally entitled to work in Australia
• Must have a current Australian police check (and international where applicable), and Victorian Working with Children Check
• Please note: evidence of up-to-date COVID-19 vaccination is a requirement of employment at SASVic.

WHY WORK WITH US

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.