About Us

The St Vincent de Paul Society is a leading provider of community support services, whose values  it is to shape a more just and compassionate society.  

We believe our employees are key to our success and offer Learning and Development programs to enhance and grow your career across a range of teams and services.  Our employees are recognised for their achievements and offered promotional opportunities on a meritocracy basis within a collegiate and values driven team environment and culture.  

The Society recognises the value of an inclusive work environment and believes that our diversity is a strength in the work we do with our local communities. 

Your Role

As the Community Outreach Coordinator, you will be managing and coordinating community outreach and engagement, fundraising, and ensuring our facilities and programs service a broad cross-section of the community, including First Nations community members, refugees and migrants, and other groups from diverse backgrounds.

Your Responsibility 

• Coordinate a comprehensive schedule of community engagement activities throughout the year.
• Ensure the smooth running of our Hubs, coordinating client access, member and conference services.
• Develop and implement fundraising and recruitment strategies across the region, in conjunction with the relevant teams.
• Integrate youth conference work with the operation of our hubs and the work of the traditional conferences.
• Ensure a client-centred approach for all client engagements.
• Coordinate members and volunteers to ensure best practice client engagement.
• Ensure members and volunteers are adequately trained to welcome, engage, assess and refer clients as required.
• Develop and maintain relationships with community organisations, government departments, health networks/professionals and other services to facilitate effective and wholistic service provision to clients, as well as rolling out targeted community engagement events.
• Coordinate local fundraising initiatives and appeals working collaboratively with the Fundraising and Communications team.

You Will Need 

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or demonstrated experience in community services, education or service delivery.
• Demonstrated experience working with people who experience disadvantage due to homelessness, the impact of trauma, mental health issues, drug and alcohol issues, and unemployment.
• Track record of delivering successful community engagement activities and fundraising strategies.
• Demonstrated experience in working with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a broad range of people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
• Demonstrated experience developing and facilitating high-quality programs and activities that reflect consumer voice and meet outcomes for people experiencing disadvantage.
• Ability to apply de-escalation strategies in high conflict situations.

Apply Now

If this sounds like you, don’t wait - apply now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them.

St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages. If you are a candidate with disability please let us know if you require any support to participate in the application and recruitment process.

The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check. A health / medical assessment may be required for some roles.