• Tenure and FTE: Two-year, fixed term contract. FTE: 4-5 days a week.
• Salary: Base Salary $80,000 to 108,000 pro rata, depending on experience. Salary packaging options and superannuation.
• Travel: Travel may be required.

Sexual Assault Services Victoria (SASVic) is the peak body for specialist sexual assault and harmful sexual behaviour (SA & HSB) services in Victoria. We work to promote rights, recovery and respect for all those impacted by sexual violence and harm. We are looking for an experienced and confident senior project officer to scope out and implement work to strengthen collaboration between specialist sexual assault services and multicultural organisations on sexual violence, including grassroots organisations.

This role is an exciting opportunity to help lead, coordinate, and deliver a successful body of work, in close collaboration with multicultural organisations, and will involve a strong focus on co-design, stakeholder engagement, organisational development and workforce development.

Applicants may find the November 24 Centre of Advancing Women report on access to sexual assault services for refugee-background women useful.

Location. Located in the Melbourne CBD, SASVic supports a hybrid work from home and office model and flexible work arrangements. All staff are required to work in the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. For all other days, staff have the choice of either working from home or attending the office.

About us

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. We work to promote rights, recovery and respect for all those impacted by sexual violence and harm.

About the role

The Senior Multicultural Rights and Access Project Lead will play a key role in SASVic’s work to strengthen rights, recovery and respect for sexual violence victim-survivors and work with children and young people using harmful sexual behaviour from multicultural communities, including international students. This includes the delivery of specific initiatives, representing SASVic at external forums and networks and contributing to the development of research, policy and advocacy. The role will initially report to the CEO and has no direct reports.

Core responsibilities:

• Build the capability of the Victorian specialist sexual assault sector to provide more consistent, effective, high-quality and accessible services to people from multi-cultural communities, including international students. The project lead will do this by:
  • Leading workforce and sector development activities, including facilitation of a combined community of practice for sector and multicultural organisation workers, including Working Together grant recipients.
  • Supporting organisational development activities.
  • Identifying ways for SASVic members to further support the work of existing grassroots organisations responding to sexual violence.
• Work closely with multicultural organisations addressing sexual violence, particularly small, grassroots organisations, to both strengthen their capacity to respond to sexual violence and identify ways to strengthen support for grassroots organisations responding to sexual violence, including by:
  • Building relationships with key multicultural organisations, advocates and experts
  • Supporting community awareness activities, such as working with multicultural communities to deliver tailored training on responding to disclosures of sexual violence.
  • Supporting organisational development activities, as identified by grassroots organisations.
  • Supporting advocacy by grassroots organisations.
• Contribute to the development of evidence-based resources, policy and position papers, submissions related to sexual violence and multicultural communities, identifying and liaising with internal and external experts as required.
• Provide advice and support across the organisation for a range of SASVic activities, including events, campaigns, community engagement, training and other advocacy activities.
• Represent SASVic and members on a range of external forums and groups.
• Prepare reports to funders to meet contract requirements.
• Prepare and present comprehensive reports, briefs on complex issues and lead and provide technical prevention policy advice to SASVic management and Board.
• Manage project budgets, keeping accurate records of projects and activities.
• Provide support, as required, for other work within the team and organisation.
• As a senior officer, be visible in the organisation and participate in organisational development activities required to support the growth of SASVic.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Relevant formal qualifications or experience.
• Understanding of the shared and distinct issues for multicultural communities in relation to sexual violence and access to specialist sexual assault services.
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement and capacity building skills, including with small and under-resourced multicultural community organisations, with the ability to facilitate problem solving in complex environments.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to synthesis complex information, an understanding of systems and willingness to explore and debate issues from multiple perspectives.
• Experience interpreting government guidance and translating this into practice.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including presentation and group facilitation skills.
• IT skills, and a willingness to learn and adapt to new IT platforms.
• Intersectional feminist understanding of the dynamics, causes and impacts of sexual violence, at an individual, social and political level, and its application when working with victim-survivors from multicultural communities, including both an understanding of the broad range of sexual violence experienced in multicultural communities and the role of institutional racism.
• Creativity and innovation, including the drawing in of new ways of doing things.
• A deep commitment to ending sexual assault and the rights and recovery of victim survivors.

Desirable

• Familiarity with specialist sexual assault services will be an advantage.
• Experience working in a membership organisation will be well received.
• Community development experience 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.