Our Organisation

The Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP) is a systems-focused coalition and broker, instigated and hosted by ARACY - the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, with Queensland partners. ARACY catalyses change by bringing people and knowledge together for the benefit of children and young people in Australia.

TQKP’s purpose is to ‘catalyse systems to change the odds for Queensland children and young people to thrive’. Our vision is for ‘every young Queenslander to thrive’.

To achieve this, TQKP:

• Brings people, organisations and sectors together
• Uses what we know and learn
• Supports leaders and catalysts, and
• Facilitates collaborative action, innovation and development

In six key portfolios of:

• Engaging Hearts and Mindsets
• Enabling Stewards and Voices

• Strengthening Places and Spaces

• Integrating Hubs and Spokes

• Growing Investment and Impact, and
• Building Brains and Bodies.

This means an eco-system better equipped and stewarded, and working together well, to:

• Reduce the experience and consequences of inequity and adversity, and
• Improve opportunities, capabilities and outcomes, so all kids can have a great start and journey in life.

For more about TQKP see www.tqkp.org.au. For more about ARACY, see www.aracy.org.au

In this role….

You will operate with a high level of autonomy and under broad direction working closely with the Executive Convenor, ARACY and TQKP team members and partners and collaborators to lead TQKP’s strategic communications and engagement and amplify impact. This will include managing the Engagement and Communications team, convening the Engaging Hearts and Mindsets portfolio collaborative, and advancing the Strategic Framing initiative.

About You

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships and productive partnerships with a diverse range of stakeholders across sectors
• Substantial experience delivering impact in strategic, senior communications and engagement roles in a field of public purpose or mission driven work
• Relevant qualifications related to strategic communications.
• A commitment to child, adolescent and family health, development and wellbeing.

In addition, a commitment to living and role modeling our ARACY Values is essential:

• Equity: ARACY believes that every child and young person is entitled to a good life and the opportunity to thrive. We are committed to helping build a society that understands and respects fairness and equity, values children not only as future adult contributors but for their own place and voice in society, and targets support to the needs of the least advantaged.
• Integrity: ARACY is an independent, non-partisan organisation. We only advocate for the interests of children and young people. We present the evidence even when it challenges common understanding. We manage the resources available to us honestly and responsibly.
• Inclusion: We value the breadth and depth of all people and ideas regardless of ethnicity, religion, age, political affiliation, gender, sexuality or other characteristics.
• Respect: ARACY engages respectfully with and advocates respectfully for children and young people, and their families and communities. We listen to children and young people, involve them in solutions, and act on what they say. Every position we take is grounded in what children and young people have said when asked about the issue. When we say ‘thriving’ and ‘a good life’, we mean living a life of value as defined by children and young people. ARACY respects the knowledges, practices and cultures of First Nations Australians acknowledging that these can provide us with alternative world views which bring with them opportunities to problem solve and create differently for all Australian children to thrive.
• Generosity: ARACY works generously as a partner and collaborator with other organisations and networks with well aligned purpose, values and agendas.

THE BENEFITS

TQKP offers flexible working arrangements and is located in central Brisbane. A remuneration package will be negotiated with the successful applicant, commensurate with skills and experience.

TQKP actively encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We will hire as soon as we find the right person, so if it looks like you, please apply asap!

Please note this is a fixed term opportunity for three years with the possibility of extension.

For more information about the role, including a copy of the position description, please visit our website or email [email protected] using the subject line: Lead - Communications & Engagement - Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership enquiry via EthicalJobs.