ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you passionate about supporting young LGBTIQA+ people, and have a tertiary qualification within social work, youth work, peer-based support work or demonstrated work experience in a similar role or discipline for a minimum of 2 years? If so - you could be our new Youth Engagement Officer!

The Youth Engagement Officer is responsible for delivering the Youth Engagement program that includes a range of structured and semi-structured psycho-social activities to support service users aged 12-25 to establish and maintain peer connection, connection to support services, identify early intervention opportunities and provide short term support. Activities are shared with another Youth Engagement Officer and mapped to an annual calendar and may include a range of recurring or one-off events, groups, excursions, consultations, workshops or programs.

Some of the projects you will be leading are our Parramatta based program, OutWest; our online space HangOut and our youth advisory collective, The Queerleaders. You will be supporting our other youth facing programs and events such as GLAM (Manly) Drop In, Queer Youth Access Zone, Glitterball, Pride Pantry and Mardi Gras programming.

You will manage and moderate digital and in-person spaces in line with the organisation’s Safer Space Guidelines and policies. This includes managing individual and group dynamics, fostering service user participation and wellbeing, and mediating conflict or challenging behaviours alongside being able to assess, manage and eliminate physical and psychological risks to service users for digital and in-person activities including managing group safety and privacy, responding to suicidal ideation, providing emergency and crisis-intervention management and support.

Qualifications and Prerequisites

• Relevant tertiary qualification within social work, youth work, peer-based support work or demonstrated work experience in a similar role or discipline for a minimum of 2 years.
• Current NSW Working with Children Check clearance and National Police Check Certificate upon commencement.
• Current NSW Driver's License.

Experience Required

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the current issues affecting LGBTIQA+ young people, including mental health and homelessness.
• Demonstrated experience providing support to vulnerable people with mental health and wellbeing, particularly young people who are LGBTIQA+ or at risk of homelessness.
• Demonstrated experience of project and/or event management and/ or engaging with external partners, ideally in community arts and cultural programming.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience of working within a youth engagement, therapeutic and anti-oppressive framework with young people, families and groups. Including but not limited to:
  • co-design, youth engagement and participation
  • community development and social inclusion
  • trauma-informed care and person-centered practice
  • strengths-based and harm-minimisation principles

Please see the full Position Description attached for the remaining eligibility criteria.

ABOUT TWENTY10

Twenty10 provides a broad range of specialised services for LGBTIQA+ people and people of diverse genders, sexualities and intersex status including; housing, mental health, counselling and social supports for young people, counselling and social support services to adults, and inclusivity training and consultation for organisations and service providers across most sectors.

OTHER INFORMATION

The Youth Services Officer is a part-time role, working a 8 day fortnight (60 hours), paid at SCHADS L4. Twenty10 offer salary sacrificing and professional development opportunities to all staff, as well as external clincial supervision to support the work of the Client Services Manager. This role is based at Twenty10 at the Inner West Pride Centre. There is also offsite work in Parramatta and Manly outside of regular business hours. This is an exciting opportunity to join Twenty10 as we embark on a new organisational chapter at the Inner West Pride Centre. Come and join a team and an organisation making positive impact on the lives of LGBTIQA+ people in New South Wales.

Twenty10 is an EEO employer. People of any gender, sexuality or intersex status, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people living with disability, or people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Whilst the closing date for applications is listed, we encourage interested and eligible applicants to submit applications at their earliest convenience.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Twenty10 is based on Gadigal and Wangal land, and we acknowledge that our work takes place on stolen land and sovereignty was never ceded. We pay our respects to Gadigal and Wangal elders past and present, and extend that respect to any and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

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A position description is attached.