We are unflinching in standing up for the rights of children, and we want you to help us ensure their voices are heard. Grow Well Live Well (GWLW) is a community initiative funded to facilitate place-based community led decision making about future service design and delivery, to coordinate and integrate services to improve wellbeing of children and young people in Palmerston through a Collective Impact approach. We need you to join our team to provide ongoing support, guiding GWLW's vision and strategies, building public will and mobilising resources.

Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit.

We're ambitious, creative and outspoken. We stand up for children's rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence. We run programs in Australia and overseas and, if there's a disaster - like an earthquake, drought or conflict - we are there on the ground.

Where you come in:

In this part-time, fixed-term position (32 hours per week, through to end of June 2022), based in Palmerston, you'll plan, design and facilitate high quality community engagement, collecting community and system knowledge to inform system change and supporting the delivery of strategic projects. Reporting to the Executive Officer, you'll be part of our dynamic Collective Impact team.

You will make an impact by:

• Enabling Palmerston community input, participation and contribution in GWLW activities by facilitating individual, focus and community group forums
• Facilitating processes to achieve a deep understanding of identified issues, needs and priorities and tailoring appropriate community engagement approaches
• Coordinating activities with project partners to maximise engagement
• Facilitating information and knowledge exchange and data sharing with key stakeholders to enable community-led decision making and practice, policy and system change
• Contributing to co-design of processes and systems to measure and evaluate the initiative

Does this sound like you?

You have high-level and robust policy analysis skills, paired with an ability to engage both critically and constructively with government and partners on matters important to Palmerston. Your flexibility and drive alongside strong time management and organisational skills sees you successfully work under pressure, in a complex environment, to tight deadlines. You have a 'can-do' attitude, demonstrate an infectious enthusiasm for your job and inspire others to achieve great change. You have an in-depth understanding and proven experience in using an array of advocacy tools to influence change, including private and public advocacy.

This role requires:

• Excellent knowledge of place-based strategy and collective impact principles and practices
• Demonstrated success in building and maintaining stakeholder and community member relationships, having respect to confidentiality of information
• Strong cultural awareness and ability to establish and maintain positive engagement with Aboriginal people
• Respect for diversity and understanding of contemporary issues within high needs communities in Palmerston
• Highly developed facilitation skills, ability to lead complex collaboration projects and co-design processes with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Experience in data collection, monitoring and evaluation
• Excellent computer literacy and proficient skills in Microsoft Office tools
• Ability to work independently, be self-motivated and contribute to a team culture

Working at Save the Children is more than just a job.

It's the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and young people and working with others who feel the same. In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

• Opportunity to work on additional projects alongside business as usual
• Friendly and agile work environment including working from home
• Full salary packaging benefits
• Additional annual leave options available

For more information regarding our employee benefits, please follow this link.

Sound interesting?

We'd love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume by clicking on one of the buttons in the 'Apply' section.

Position Description - Community Engagement Facilitator GWLW

At Save the Children, we seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society - in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, cultures and beliefs - and reflects the communities we work in. We believe diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and core values and we demonstrate this commitment through all our employment practices. Our inclusive workplace culture contributes to making Save the Children a great place to work. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants to apply.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

Save the Children Australia supports the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. If you are successful in your application, we will request consent to access HR held information pertaining to your last 5 years of employment. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.