• Position : Full time, Ongoing position
• Salary : Salary package full time equivalent upto $107,000 pa inclusive of superannuation
• Location : Preston

The Organisation

Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) is the largest organisation of its kind in Australia, employing more than 600 employees and delivering more than 70 programs across Victoria. VACCA is an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation that supports and advocates for the Aboriginal community. Our strength lies with our people. Our team is committed to the organisation's vision and values; advocates for our children and other vulnerable community members; and shows respect for, observance and compliance with Aboriginal cultural protocols, practice and ceremony. Our Aboriginality is what distinguishes us from mainstream services and what enables us to deliver the positive outcomes we achieve for our people.

About the role:

VACCA’s Out of Home Care (OOHC) services include kinship care and foster care. These programs have expanded rapidly in recent years due to both the growth in the numbers of Aboriginal children needing OOHC in Victoria and the transfer of OOHC placements from mainstream services to VACCA in line with the Roadmap for Reform’s Guiding Principle Five (P5). This principle aims to ensure Aboriginal self-determination around decision-making and care for Aboriginal children and families. VACCA’s OOHC programs now incorporate380 Kinship Care households and 100 Foster Care households.

The key area of work for the Senior Project Officer, OOHC Learning & Development will be to develop and deliver training to:

• Build the capability and confidence of VACCA’s front line OOHC staff and their managers.
• Increase OOHC staff’s understanding of children and young people’s journeys into and out of kinship care and foster care.
• Increase OOHC staff’s understanding of the statutory, policy, organisational and relational context within which they work; and
• Improve staff satisfaction and reduce staff turnover through staff feeling better supported and resourced to do their jobs.

As a member of the Learning & Development team you will be part of a supportive group of staff with diverse responsibilities involving contact with all areas of VACCA. You will have the opportunity to contribute the skills you’ve gained in previous roles and to build your knowledge and expertise about the diverse range of programs that VACCA delivers for Aboriginal children and families, including Cultural programs, child protection, out of home care, youth, justice and family violence

About You:

• Demonstrated skills and experience in project management and project planning
• You know the child and family welfare sector
• You have worked with Aboriginal children, families and communities.
• In depth knowledge and experience in one or more of the following practice areas:
  • Kinship Care
  • Foster Care
• You have previous experience designing and facilitating training packages (preferably online and face to face)

What we can offer you!!

• Professional support and training via in-house learning and development training modules
• Attractive salary packaging to increase your take home pay
• Great career development opportunities.
• Access to Employee support and wellbeing program(s)
• Opportunity to work and build connection with the Aboriginal Community and culture

We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people to apply.

Applications should include a cover letter, key selection criteria and current resume.

We encourage applicants to view the Position Description prior to applying. Please click here to view the position description

We are committed to Aboriginal self-determination and supporting strong, safe, thriving Aboriginal communities and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity, honouring all cultural backgrounds, abilities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and spiritual beliefs.

VACCA is a child-safe organisation and is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people with zero tolerance for child abuse. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a National Police Record Check and Working with Children Check prior to commencement of employment and periodically following commencement.

VACCA is an equal opportunity employer and has a smoke-free workplace policy.