• Permanent Part Time - 3 days per week
• Location: Box Hill VIC
• $ 52.14 per hour + Superannuation + NFP Salary Packaging

The Role:

VincentCare is seeking an appropriately-qualified person to take on the position of Manager - Gender and Sexuality.

Reporting to the Senior Manager - Quality and Innovation, the Manager - Gender and Sexuality is responsible for leading the ongoing implementation and management of LGBTIQ inclusive practice across VincentCare Victoria. The purpose of the role is to ensure the highest possible standards of LGBTIQ cultural competency in practice and service delivery, as well as the highest possible standards of cultural safety for clients, staff and volunteers.

A significant component of the role is responsibility for maintaining the organisation's high level of LGBTIQ inclusive practice and cultural safety. The Manager - Gender and Sexuality is responsible for developing executing a three-year Quality Work Plan that outlines how the organisation will continue to meet standards as well as to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

VincentCare's Quality and Innovation Team provides leadership to facilitate practice that is both innovative and client-focused. We seek to develop a culture of deliberate and continuous quality improvement that promotes the achievement of client-identified outcomes and provides assurance to our stakeholders. We achieve this through a curious and collaborative approach that is data and information based and aligns with our organisational values.

VincentCare:

VincentCare is an award winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

Our aspiration is to be the leader in providing care, hope and advocacy for those facing disadvantage. Our purpose is to create opportunities and lasting change for the most marginalised. VincentCare is well equipped to provide a continuum of services that effectively meet the needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

Working with VincentCare:

A key strategic priority is attracting and retaining skilled and committed employees aligned to our values. VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including:

• Career Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Salary Packaging
• Choice of Superannuation fund
• Family friendly and flexibility
• Study leave
• The Ozanam Scholar Bursary

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

Selection Criteria:

Qualifications:

• Tertiary Qualification in relevant field (eg. Community Services, Social Work, Quality Management Systems, Sociology etc)

Knowledge & Experience:

• Lived experience of the LGBTIQ community.
• Knowledge and understanding of the health and wellbeing outcomes for LGBTIQ people
• Awareness of the LGBTIQ community generally and the impact of broader social and political issues
• Demonstrated experience or understanding of accreditation standards and assessments (Rainbow Tick Standards is preferred).
• Awareness of factors that affect and underpin the health, safety and wellbeing of LGBTIQ peoples, especially those experiencing homelessness, family violence or substance abuse.

Skills and Personal Attributes:

• Highly developed communication skills across a range of mediums including written communication and facilitation of meetings and workshops.
• Strong organisational and planning skills with the capacity to prioritise and deliver on multiple and competing tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, develop and maintain strategic relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

How to apply:

Applicants must submit their CV together with a detailed and separate response to each of the key selection criteria in the position description which is available below.

Please submit your application through our website via the Apply Now link.

Phone enquiries may be made to Senior Manager - Quality and Innovation Chloe Persing - (m) 0418 720 096

VincentCare welcomes applications from people from diverse cultural & linguistic backgrounds including people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander.

All appointments within VincentCare Victoria are subject to satisfactory completion of a police check and character/performance reference checks. Police checks will be undertaken for the selected candidate prior to any job offer being confirmed. Police checks are also undertaken on a periodic basis during the period of employment.

All appointments are subject to disclosure of any relevant employment history of formal disciplinary action for improper or unprofessional conduct taken by current or previous employers or any other integrity body within or outside Australia.

The incumbent for this position must have and maintain a current Victorian Working with Children Check or equivalent.