• Fixed Term Full time maternity leave cover position until April 2024 (with view to extend)
• Lead a team of dedicated, passionate, and professional team members
• Make a difference by joining our collective impact initiative

Key Benefits

• Work for a top NFP provider with a strong 75-year history of providing care
• Competitive financial benefits including salary packaging with tax free component
• Access to in-house learning and development programs to assist your career growth

About the role

HopeStreet - Inner City is committed to putting faith into action by providing compassionate care to marginalised inner-city residents.

Our Community Development team works with people who are experiencing marginalisation in Woolloomooloo and surrounding suburbs, with a focus on women’s services and towards people living in social housing or sleeping rough.

Our team works together to create trusted places where people gather, community is strong and lives are transformed. We walk with each person to understand the unique circumstances of their life and we empower them to live well through practical and reliable support.

This role will involve:

• Leading a team that works towards community transformation through community listening, engagement and partnership
• Developing programs that aim to deliver timely, safe and quality interventions to individuals experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness, families, youth and children
• Developing constructive relationships with the local community and key stakeholders through effective listening, cultural sensitivity, broad inclusion, strategic engagement and capacity building, with a view to equipping community to undertake community-led projects based upon the identified local community needs and strategic plan

The successful candidate will have:

• Degree or Diploma in Community Services, Community Development, Social work or related field
• Minimum of three (3) years working in a Community Services environment and Community Development
• Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of BaptistCare’s Christian identity and promote the organisation’s values through interactions at work
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work as part of a team
• Ability in creating, developing and implementing program plans within the Best Practice Frameworks of the Community Service Sector
• High level of negotiation skills and the ability to liaise with key stakeholders
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including computer skills
• Demonstrate problem solving and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrate mediation knowledge and skills
• Current NSW Drivers Licence
• Hold a current Working with Children Check
• Hold a current First Aid Certificate or be willing to obtain a first aid certificate

About Us

BaptistCare support thousands of people across 90 locations in NSW and the ACT. From humble beginnings in 1944, BaptistCare has grown into one of the nation's most respected care and community services providers.

We are a faith based, not for profit organisation that cares for families, communities and individuals. You may know us for our aged care services – we also give to the community through community service programs including domestic violence prevention initiatives non interest loans to those in need.

We love what we do and the communities we help. With us you can deliver life transforming care, create a career you’ll love, and join a team who make a difference.

If you would like to be considered for this role, please click ‘’Apply’’ and attach your CV and a Cover Letter.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date. Closing Date is subject to change without notice.

Successful applications will be subject to a police background and working with children checks.

BaptistCare – Transforming lives by expressing the love of Christ.