• Maximum term position until August 2022
• Full time – 38 hours per week
• Flexible location

Who we are

Australian Red Cross is part of the world’s largest humanitarian organisation. Our aim is to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people in Australia and across our region.

About the role

This is a dynamic role that will be required to support and influence at all levels of the organisation with a focus on empowering Red Cross people, ensuring they have the training and tools they need; embedding key touch points, accountability mechanisms and quality checks in activity cycles such that child safety is embedded within all approaches.

Working closely with the National Manager, Child Protection, Safeguarding and Practice, and the National MSP Practice Lead, the Practice and Safeguarding Implementation Lead will drive analysis of quality practice and safeguarding in service delivery across Domestic Operations, investigate opportunities for continuous improvement and identify solutions in partnership with internal and external stakeholders. This will involve developing processes and tools that reflect best practice and safeguarding policy, for deployment across the organisation.

What you will bring

• Extensive professional experience and strong technical expertise as both a practitioner and senior level in organisational and/or statutory child protection
• Extensive experience working across a broad spectrum of contexts and vulnerable communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and humanitarian entrants
• Demonstrated experience in developing and embedding high quality training and development programs for staff and volunteers
• Demonstrated experiencing in successfully leading the implementation of whole of organisation policy within a complex organisation to improve client outcomes
• Strong change management skills and experience in negotiating between multiple stakeholders with competing priorities to achieve the intended outcomes
• Excellent understanding of the child protection sector, particularly child safeguarding, child abuse, neglect and exploitation, assessment, early intervention and prevention, and statutory child protection systems
• Demonstrated ability to develop practice improvement strategies and implement processes and systems to improve safeguarding and protection within a large organisation

The benefits

Be part of one of the largest humanitarian organisations and know that the work contributes to improving outcomes for vulnerable people.

Red Cross offers generous salary packaging benefits and flexible working arrangements.

Further information

For further information about this role, please refer to the position description attached below or contact Isabel Maclean on (03) 8327 7944.

Position description:  Practice and Safeguarding Implementation Lead.