About VACCHO

VACCHO is the peak representative for the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria.

We have 33 member Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations providing support to over 78,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the state. We lead and support Aboriginal Community Control and the broader health and social services sector to deliver transformative health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal communities in Victoria. We are a centre of expertise, policy advice, training, innovation and leadership in Aboriginal health and wellbeing. And we'd love you to join us!

VACCHO promotes substantive equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This is an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander designated position, classified under Section 12 Special Measures of the Equal Opportunity Act (2010). This employment opportunity is only available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

About the role

The Executive Manager, Screening and Early Detection is responsible for managing VACCHO’s statewide program of initiatives that increase the capacity of screening and early detection activities in Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs). These include:

• Providing support to ACCOs to increase rates of Aboriginal Health Checks and to integrate high priority screening, e.g. for STIs/BBVs.
• Supporting increased participation in national screening programs for the early detection of breast, bowel, and cervical cancer.
• Providing proactive leadership and advocacy to support Victoria’s cervical cancer elimination goal.
• Supporting the development of new screening pathways including for lung cancer.
• Supporting increased and improved outreach to ACCOs for allied health screening initiatives e.g. by visiting audiologists and optometrists and supporting ACCOs to develop their own screening capabilities.

The Executive Manager is responsible for developing, coaching, and mentoring staff to achieve project objectives within annual cycles of impact reporting. Working collaboratively with other teams within VACCHO, the Screening and Early Detection team also contributes to improving Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) within VACCHO’s member organisations.

Essential skills/experiences

To be successful in this role, you will need a demonstrated experience in managing, coaching and supporting the development of a team. You will have the ability to develop and maintain close working relationships with key external stakeholders including the Victorian Cancer Screening Framework partnership, Sexual Health Victoria, Rural Workforce Agency Victoria, and Australian College of Optometry.

Desirable

• Community engagement skills and/or experience in health stakeholder engagement.
• Experience working with committees including expert working groups and Communities of Practice.
• Understanding of Victorian health systems

Benefits

• Working for Community in a culturally safe Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation, recently accredited as a Great Place to Work for the second consecutive year!
• Access to generous employee benefits including Not for Profit salary packaging entitlements (see below), leave loading, additional leave entitlements including cultural leave, and bonus Christmas leave if employed at VACCHO into the following year.
• Organisational early finish Fridays (4pm) and flexible working arrangements considered.
• Distinctive inner-city Collingwood office with wellness spaces and end of trip facilities available.

VACCHO is committed to welcoming and embracing the diversity of cultures, identities, gender, sex, and sexually diverse identities and expressions, experiences, beliefs, and values of all people.

About Salary Packaging

As a Public Benevolent Institute (PBI), we are able to offer generous tax concessions to our staff. For further information, please click here:
www.salarypackagingplus.com.au/EmployeeServices/CategoriesAndBenefits#!/PBI&charities.

Get in touch

If this sounds like you, please email [email protected] using the subject line: Executive Manager - Screening and Early Detection enquiry via EthicalJobs and ask for the position description. 

Other employment related information

Employment is subject to a satisfactory and ongoing police records check (international where relevant) and Working with Children Check.

We believe in the right for all people to be treated with the respect and dignity at all times, and that all people who work for, govern or undertake work at or visit us should at all times feel safe and included.

Visit us here for more info: www.vaccho.org.au/.

A position description is attached.