• Full-time permanent role - Working 35 hours per week (part-time will be considered)
• Sydney South West based location - Hybrid working Model
• Attractive Remuneration Package - Salary packaging that can increase your take home pay by up to 5k annually
• Provide research insights that assist at risk people to create opportunities for a positive future.

About Us

SSI is a national not-for-profit organisation providing dedicated human and social services to a diverse Australia. With community at the heart of everything we do, our purpose is to create a world in which everyone has access to equal opportunities.

SSI supports individuals, children, families and communities via a range of vital human services from settlement support of newcomers and refugees through to programs in employment and education and health wellbeing and social supports for all Australians, new and old.

Purpose of the Role

This role sits within the new NSW Multicultural DFV Service. The Research and Service Development Specialist is responsible for leading research engagement and developing services models that enhance service delivery and engagement of multicultural communities around DFSV and the broader service system in NSW. The role will lead consultations and policy input into the service and service systems, including harnessing lived experience. In this role, you will play a key role in enhancing the response to domestic family violence by empowering individuals and organizations with the tools and resources they need to support survivors and prevent violence.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead research projects, evaluate program effectiveness, and collaborate with stakeholders to develop and implement cutting-edge initiatives that address the complex challenges of domestic family violence. You will play a pivotal role in shaping policies, practices, and interventions that promote safety, healing, and empowerment for survivors and their communities.

Responsibilities

• Actively engage with evidence based service development and roll out new models or approaches to improve service delivery towards multicultural communities in the context of DFSV.
• Engage in research projects and research issues relevant to working with DFSV victim survivors from migrant and refugee backgrounds, including demographic changes and trends observed within different communities and migration patterns.
• Establish a relationship with the DFSV research bodies such as ANROWS, universities, key researchers in the field with an aim to increase research output that takes into consideration multicultural communities.
• Establish a lived experience panel, including relevant training and support mechanisms to support members of the panel.
• Draft position papers, policies and project applications from time to time in collaboration with the team, the multicultural sector and other DFSV related positions within SSI.
• Hold consultations with sector staff and communities to enrich understanding of DFSV in the context of DFSV and participate in consultations held by others.
• Participate in the broader activities of the service, SSI and the division the role sits within.
• Other duties as directed from time to time within your skills range and capacity.

Please ask us for a copy of the PD for the full responsibilities.

Essential Criteria

• Considerable understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies that allow for engagement in research projects
• Research to practice translation skills suitable for service development activities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills relevant to holding effective consultations and submission writing
• Ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships with internal & external stakeholders
• Multicultural background or extensive experience in the multicultural services sector.
• Solid understanding of gender based violence and drivers of DFSV is DESIRABLE
• An understanding of research or evidence gathering with children subjected to DFSV is DESIRABLE
• Bilingual/bicultural is DESIRABLE

About our Benefits

• Salary packaging options to receive up to $15,900 of your salary tax-free meaning more take-home pay!
• Industry leading flexible working arrangement supported to work from home and office, including 9-day fortnight;
• Access to in-house training and learning opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Access to our inhouse wellbeing programs
• Working alongside professional and dedicated team members all wanting to make a difference in our communities

 About our Recruitment Process

At SSI we have a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is embedded in the everyday thinking and practice of all employees, contractors and volunteers.

All successful candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment checks including reference checks, WWCC, a Criminal History Check and NDIS Screening check (if applicable) as a reasonable condition of employment.

To Apply

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