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Women's Health and Engagement Officers x3

Women's Health in the South East

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 3 (three) Women's Health and Engagement Officers.

The purpose of these roles is to work with women and their communities to help improve health and wellbeing. If you are committed to gender equality, have experience of migrant and refugee women in Southern Metro Melbourne, and speak a language other than English - we want to hear from you!

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

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

Working under the supervision of the Capacity and Capability Lead, and in partnership with the Women’s Health and Wellbeing team, these roles are responsible for a range of activities and tasks at WHISE to facilitate the implementation of the organisation’s work to increase gender equity and improve the health and wellbeing of women in the Southern Metropolitan Region. Using the organisations policy and procedures the role is focused on connecting and engaging directly with women in the Region to activate and implement the key action plans and priorities of WHISE.

We are keen to recruit women with lived experience of the migrant and refugee community in Southern Metropolitan Melbourne, and warmly welcome applications from women who have proficiency in a language other than English.

Activities and work include community activation work, information sessions, forums and peer education. Key to success is working in collaboration with colleagues within WHISE and with community on complex social policy and health matters to achieve the mission and goals of WHISE. Ideally, the incumbent will have lived experience of migrant and refugee communities in the Southern Metropolitan region and be proficient in a language other than English to support engagement with those communities.

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.

WHAT DO KNOW MORE?

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/

Also you may like to look at our socials:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/whisewomen

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/whisewomen/

A position description is attached.

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