Community Capacity Building Worker

• Northern Community Hub
• Part Time

Enjoy the benefits of working with a growing organisation offering career development, flexibility and an attractive annual salary package (including leave loading and superannuation).

The Role:

The Community Capacity Building Worker plays an integral role within a multidisciplinary team of professionals in supporting and working with clients who are at risk of, or currently experiencing housing stress. 

The Community Capacity Building Worker seeks to build capacity of staff, clients, and the larger community in order to address the structural inequalities that create disadvantage. The role is responsible for contributing to the achievement of organisational outcomes that have been identified in VincentCare’s Client Engagement and Client Participation Frameworks, and works closely with the Client Participation and Engagement Support Worker to develop opportunities for client engagement, participation, and to provide capacity building activities necessary for full and effective client participation. 

VincentCare Victoria:

VincentCare Victoria is an award winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

Our aspiration is to be the leader in providing care, hope and advocacy for those facing disadvantage. Our purpose is to create opportunities and lasting change for the most marginalised. VincentCare is well equipped to provide a continuum of services that effectively meet the needs of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. 

Northern Community Hub provides integrated services in the community housing sector, along with family violence services, case management services and youth outreach services.

Working with VincentCare:

A key strategic priority is attracting and retaining skilled and committed employees aligned to our values. VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including: 

• Career Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Salary Packaging
• Choice of Superannuation fund
• Family friendly and flexibility
• Study leave
• The Ozanam Scholar Bursary 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion. 

Selection Criteria:

• Appropriate qualifications in social work, community development or other related field;

• Demonstrated commitment to Social Justice, Community Development principles and practice;
• Ability to work collaboratively and to contribute to a positive team culture and work in partnership with VincentCare programs, key stakeholders and external service providers;
• Experience and knowledge of housing systems, legislation and rental agreements;
• Knowledge of Government, community and private sector housing/support systems and associated issues
• A passion to redress disadvantage in our community and to work diligently towards ending chronic homelessness;

• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills