Join the leading agency in Southern Metropolitan Melbourne for Gender Equity, Women’s Health and Primary Prevention.

Become part of a strengthened organisation with a feminist spirit, that is expanding its work in the heat of the most diverse region of Australia.

Work with a caring, supportive and empowered team of professionals that prevents violence against women, seeks to increase the mental health and wellbeing of women, improve sexual and reproductive health and make our region gender equitable.

The Victorian Government has increased the funding of women’s health services across Victoria for the next two years and, reformed our guidelines to strengthen and recognise our role as key in the Victorian Public Health System.

With our eyes firmly set on making the best of this opportunity in the short, medium and longer term, WHISE is now recruiting for a Capacity and Capability Lead.

Who is WHISE?

WHISE is one of 12 Women’s Health Services that since 1988 have been a key part of the Victorian preventative health infrastructure. These services are providers of gendered health promotion and primary prevention that collectively share a range of priorities.

Funded through the Victorian Government, the Victorian Women’s Health Services:

• Advocate for the wellbeing of all women across Victoria
• Promote good health and wellbeing to Victorian women
• Apply an expert intersectional gendered lens to health issues and systems to improve outcomes for women.
• Prevent the underlying causes of ill-health and harm for women in Victoria

WHISE works across 10 local government areas from South Melbourne down to the Mornington Peninsula and east to Casey and Cardinia. Our area of work is the Southern Metropolitan Region and is one of the most diverse and expanding regions across Australia.

WHISE proudly works in the South East Region of Melbourne to create equity by learning, educating and advocating for all women. We create positive and productive relationships based on understanding and evidence with leaders, individuals, communities and organisations in our region.

Our operating principles

• We are collaborative and innovative
• We seek to create long term change to improve the lives of all women in our region
• We are curious and seek to constantly learn to improve our practice

Our Values are: Learning – Innovation – Collaboration – Integrity - Leadership

WHISE is an Incorporated Association in the State of Victoria (A0026387C) and a registered Charity with the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission. WHISE has an equal opportunity exemption and applications for this role and as such this position is open to applicants who identify as women.

What we offer

We offer a values based, caring organisation. In addition to offering competitive remuneration, we seek to provide a working environment that is flexible and mindful of the reality of working women’s lived experience.

Our work is evidence based, and mission focused – we work to improve the lives of women. We want our staff to feel that they are engaged with their role and that through their work they are part of a broader network of organisations and people, working to create gender equity for all women.

About the Role

This role is a full-time role, initially on a contract for 2 years.

This role operates with limited direction from leadership and is accountable to manage a range of projects and work to support WHISE achieve its goals through building the capacity and capability of its members, stakeholders, partners and community. The role is positioned as the principal guardian of knowledge and expertise within WHISE on organisational development and workforce development as it relates to the work to strengthen adapt and support change across the Southern Metropolitan Region to increase intersectional gender equity and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for women. Guided in their work by the annual business plan, the goals of the WHISE integrated health promotion plan, and the framework of WHISE’s theory of change and strategic plan, this role reports to the Manager of Gender Equity and Capacity and works collaboratively with other employees, providing support to staff who are working in the field with organisations and community on behavioural/attitudinal and change initiatives.

Key to this role is the Lead’s, ability to design and deliver capacity and capability building programs and, also, support others across the organisation to build their skills and knowledge to deliver high quality training products and services. The role oversees the work of 3 part time Women’s Health and Wellbeing Officers (each of who have experience of migrant and refugee community and speak languages other than English) whose main role is to be out in the field building capacity and capability of community on areas relevant to women’s health and wellbeing as per WHISE goals.

For further information head to our website https://whise.org.au/ and have a look at our latest annual report https://ar.whise.org.au/

A position description is attached.