• Meaningful role, purpose and impactful organisation
• Full-time, max-term
• Parental leave cover until March 2025, with possibility of extension
• $96,212.37 per year + super + NFP salary packaging (income tax savings!)
• Family-friendly hours & flexibility to work from home
• Additional well-being leave available

WHY JOIN LAUNCH HOUSING

Our mission is to end homelessness. We aim to get people housed, keep them housed, and be an influential voice on ending homelessness. We are a secular, independent provider of choice for clients and we're 'striving to be' the go-to organisation on homelessness for government, media, philanthropy, private donors and the community.

Our people are the backbone of our organisation and supporting their wellbeing and professional development is critical to our ability to help our clients and the community. We value lived experience and diversity in our staff, and actively work to ensure everyone is able to make their career with Launch Housing fulfilling.

Launch Housing is working to become more trauma informed and as a leading employer in the homelessness sector, it is important to let you know that you may hear stories of distress, hardship, trauma, or violence when working with us. We encourage you to reflect on how this may impact you when considering applying for the role. Sustaining the Health & Well-being of our staff is our priority. We provide adequate training & supervision, Wellbeing Days, and access to Employee Assistance Program.

Our permanent and fixed-term employee benefits include:

• Contributing to useful and rewarding work and giving something back to the community
• Wellbeing days, ceremonial leave, carers leave and study leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• Purchased leave
• 17.5% leave loading
• Gender neutral paid parental leave (after 12 months of service)
• Training and career growth opportunities across Launch Housing
• A portion of your income can be tax-free by salary packaging your personal expenses
• Additional tax-free salary packaging on dining and accommodation expenses
• Positive, supportive and progressive work environment

What you’ll be doing

One of our amazing team members will be going on parental leave shortly so we're on the look-out for a Learning & Development (L&D) Specialist to join us until March 2025.

In this role, you'll have a critical part within our People Team and will support us in revolutionising learning at Launch. You'll be reporting to the Learning & Development Manager, and will be responsible for the design, development, delivery, implementation, and evaluation of high-quality and innovative capability building initiatives and activities that support our people to flourish and perform at their best.

You'll provide specialist advice to staff and leaders in relation to individual and team learning and development needs and will be instrumental in building and maintaining effective courseware design and development processes to ensure excellence within current systems, policies and procedures.

You will be:

• Designing and developing a broad range of high-quality learning programs and supporting resources to support the objectives and priorities of the Learning and Development Team.
• Utilising a wide variety of training modalities including classroom based, virtual classrooms and eLearning to facilitate high quality learning experiences.
• Developing online and face-to-face content from existing learning and assessment resources.
• Leading the design and co-facilitation of the LH Induction including regular reviews and updates of the program in line with organisational changes and needs.
• Providing specialist advice on current trainings and working with internal SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to ensure learning solutions are customised to LH needs.

What we're looking for (key selection criteria):

• Experience with developing both eLearning content and face-to-face classroom content development
• Experience in delivering training and/or presentation and facilitation skills
• Experience with LMS, content creation systems, SCORM packages and associated tools such as Articulate 360
• Ability to work closely with stakeholders to identify training needs whilst building strong relationships with internal teams
• Familiarity with instructional design methodologies and approaches (e.g. ADDIE or SAM)
• Demonstrated commitment to the values of Launch Housing and our mission to end homelessness
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment TAE40116 (equivalent, or higher) (desirable)

How to Apply

To apply for this opportunity, please click on the "Apply now" button. Please include a cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria.

A position description is attached.

Please contact Shavaun Petrie – Learning and Development Manager at [email protected], using the subject line: Learning & Development Specialist enquiry via EthicalJobs, if you have other queries regarding the role.

Please note shortlisting will occur on a rolling basis, so please don't delay in submitting your application.

Launch Housing offers a wide range of career opportunities and employs a diverse range of talent. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons to apply! We acknowledge, respect and celebrate Aboriginal cultures, languages, connections to Country and heritage, customs and practices. We're committed to support Aboriginal peoples to obtain genuine and fulfilling career with us!

If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know at [email protected].

Launch Housing is committed to being a child safe organisation and has zero tolerance to child abuse. Our hiring process involves rigorous screening of applicants. All of our people including students, contractors and volunteers must hold a valid Working with Children Check and satisfactory criminal history record check.

Launch Housing is an Equal Opportunity employer and supports accessible working arrangements for all. This includes people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people, young people, older people, women, and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex or queer. We acknowledge Lived Experience as a unique expertise and encourage people with a Lived Experience of Homelessness to apply. All applicants must have the right to work in Australia.