Community Strengthening Officer

Here is your OPPORTUNITY to work for the Y…

We are currently looking for a passionate and motivated Community Strengthening Officer to join the Marketing, Communications and Fundraising Team in the Western Sydney Region. This role will be based at Penrith YMCA.

Background

The Y has always been, and must continue to be an organisation whose “reason for being” is to use its strengths and capabilities to deliver programs and services to tackle important societal issues and to positively impact on the lives of the communities we serve.

Embedded in everything we do is our commitment to our six Community Strengthening Streams:

1. Membership and Fee Assistance
2. Youth Leadership
3. Volunteer Involvement
4. Family Programming & Engagement
5. Accessibilty and Special Populations
6. Connecting & Belonging

The Y also delivers Benevolent Programs whose impacts are highly profound yet deal with a specific community need or marginalised population. These programs include Rebuilding Families, Indigenous Excellence, Youth at Risk and Disability Support.

The Community Strengthening Officer role

A newly formed role, the Y seeks a proactive community-minded person who will assist with the fulfilment of the 2011 – 2015 Strategic Plan Goals for Community Strengthening.

This role will be principally responsible for the delivery of Community Strengthening in the Western Sydney region.

Broadly, there are two components to their responsibilities:

1. The supervision of current programs and activities,
2. The development and implementation of new programs and activities.

Key responsibilities

• Provide a proactive Community Strengthening function for the Y
• Collaboratively implement, monitor and continually improve the Y’s Community Strengthening Streams
• Support the execution of the YMCA of Sydney Strategic Plan
• Provide event based support to YMCA Centres for key events and campaigns
• Capture the Y difference through the research and production of stories and publications on a centre-level
• Coordinate community, stakeholder and partner surveys and analysis

The Community Strengthening Officer will need to work collaboratively with the Community Strengthening Coordinator, Centre Managers and other key staff to ensure that each program and activity is based on community need, organisational capability and in alignment with organisational strategy.

This is a new role to the organisation and will evolve as the needs grow or resources become available. This person will be efficient, well-organised and self-driven. A personal and organisational values match is crucial. The role is regionally-based and will cover the Western Sydney Region.