Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 14th Jan 2022
- Melbourne > Brunswick East
Bring your energy & lived experience to support VMIAC’s efforts to build the collective power of consumers to lead systemic change of Victoria Mental Health & Wellbeing services.
Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council (VMIAC) is Victoria’s peak body for people who have a lived experience of mental health or emotional challenges. We are run by consumers, for consumers.
Your lived experience and those of other consumers matters.
VMIAC is going through a period of growth and is wanting to build and extend relationships with consumers who’ve been excluded from and/or marginalised by and within Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing service system.
We have three new roles which are pivotal to ensuring VMIAC and the Department of Health hears from and utilises consumers' expertise it seeks to rebuild the mental health and wellbeing system following recommendations from the Royal Commission to Mental Health.
Applicants must have lived experience of mental health issue, emotional distress and/or of being a consumer of mental health services.
We strongly encourage people with lived experience of mental illness and/or emotional distress from the following background/s to apply:
VMIAC recognises the relationship between colonisation, racism, ablism, Islamophobia, classism as forms of discrimination which harm people’s mental health and wellbeing.
The Membership Project Officer position is:
The Membership Project Officer will work with the Membership team to update and develop VMIAC’s policies and procedures, evaluation, and business systems. You will need exceptional interpersonal and organisational skills, a passion for embedding lived experience in organisational practices as VMIAC grows its capacity to serve members and for consumers to drive systemic reform of Victoria’s Mental Health and Wellbeing services.
To learn more about VMIAC please check out our website here to learn more about our values, history and vision. Please read about the consumer register and membership as this role will be involved in these two initiatives.
If you would like more information, please contact Chantelle Higgs (She/her), Membership lead via (M) 0421 938 514 or (E) [email protected] using the subject line: Membership Project Officer enquiry via EthicalJobs.
A position description is attached.