Job Summary
- $100,000 - $109,999 per annum + salary packaging
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 24th Jul 2024
- Melbourne > Parkville
Transcend Australia is a not-for-profit community led charity who delivers rights-based services and advocacy that celebrate gender diversity, affirm autonomy, and enhance the protective factors for strong families and young people’s health and wellbeing.
One of the primary aims of Transcend is to support families, parents, and carers to navigate the health system for transgender, gender diverse and non-binary children, young people and their families. In addition, we offer support to families in securing fair, respectful and inclusive outcomes for their children across of range of social and institutional settings that intersect with their lives.
Our 2024 – 2028 Strategic Plan is available on our website.
Transcend Australia has office locations in Parkville and Castlemaine, Victoria. The successful candidate will have the option to be based at Parkville or Castlemaine. There will be options for some flexible work from home arrangements, for work/life balance. Some interstate travel may be required.
You are experienced with communications or public relations management, project cycles, stakeholder management, community development, evaluation frameworks and reporting.
You will be driven to bring your skills and experience together to facilitate the development and/or implementation of a range of programs and initiatives that contribute to Transcend's work towards improving the health outcomes for trans young people and building stronger families.
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer of Transcend Australia, the Director, Communications and Engagement will have a pivotal leadership role developing and supporting functions related to:
You will have a background, ideally from the health and public policy or community development sector, that demonstrates your strong understanding of mental health and primary care health services, how they integrate and how cross agency referrals are managed.
You will have some understanding of the healthcare needs of trans, gender diverse and non-binary young people and their families and the policy environment in which we work.
For more information or to discuss further, please contact Jeremy Wiggins on 0484 299 885.
A position description is attached.