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Wellness & Prevention Engagement Manager

Beyond Blue

Beyond Blue’s vision is for all people in Australia to achieve their best possible mental health.

Our mission is to work with the community to improve mental health and prevent suicide.

We aim to achieve this by:

  • Promoting mental health and wellbeing.
  • Being a trusted source of information, advice and support.
  • Working together to prevent suicide.

Beyond Blue’s values are Collaboration, Respect, Enthusiasm, Excellence, Innovation and Integrity.

The Wellness and Prevention team helps promote positive mental health and wellbeing and prevent poor mental health. The Wellness and Prevention team is currently developing a new Beyond Blue Wellness and Prevention Strategy, which will inform our activities. The Wellness and Prevention Engagement Manager will be responsible for engaging with key internal and external stakeholders to advance the Strategy.

This includes collaborating with influential stakeholders who have capacity to influence the mental health and wellbeing of the Australian community, for example, other organisations with a focus on mental health promotion and prevention and national stakeholders in key settings like work and home.

The Engagement Manager will also support the work of the broader Wellness and Prevention team, including by undertaking stakeholder engagement in relation to Wellness and Prevention initiatives, for example, supporting engagement with Beyond Blue corporate and community partners, the financial services industry and the small business community.

Key Accountabilities

External Stakeholder Engagement

  • Develop a proactive stakeholder engagement plan to enable contribute to the Wellness and Prevention Strategy and enable collaboration with the community
  • Engage and manage relationships with key stakeholders, including at the senior executive level. This will include being the central point of contact for stakeholders; identifying, approaching and building ongoing relationships with key stakeholders and maintaining CRM records related to engagement activities
  • Represent Beyond Blue’s Wellness and Prevention team as a subject matter expert at relevant strategic events, for example, on working groups, committees and presenting at conferences or webinars
  • Capture stakeholder and community sentiment, and stakeholder feedback, and report internally to inform Wellness and Prevention planning and evaluation
  • Some interstate travel may be required to complement online engagement with stakeholders.

Internal Stakeholder Engagement

  • Collaborate across the organisation to help build an understanding embed Wellness and Prevention principles and priorities across Beyond Blue programs and activities
  • Collaboration within the Wellness and Prevention team to achieve overall team objectives. This includes designing stakeholder engagement activities to support the broader team’s objectives (e.g. engagement with the financial services sector, small business community)
  • Collaboration with other program areas / operational teams within beyondblue to achieve overall objectives.

Subject matter Expert

  • Acting as a subject matter expert in relation to mental wellbeing, mental health promotion and prevention, positive behaviour change and key settings including mental health at home and at work
  • Provide advice and organisational support to the Head of Wellness and Prevention, including preparing budgets, reports, presentations, briefs, correspondence, facilitating teleconferences and face to face meetings, and providing relevant information to internal and external stakeholders.

Project Management

  • While this role primarily relates to stakeholder engagement and management, the role may be responsible for project managing allocated Wellness and Prevention projects including the planning, development, implementation, of projects and activities, and comply with internal project and risk management systems and processes
  • Report on the progress of assigned engagement activities to Head of Wellness and Prevention and others as required
  • Contributing to team and organisational budgeting and planning activities.

Qualifications and Key Selection Criteria

Essential

  • Relationship Management — Knowledge of principles and processes for effectively building and managing internal and external working relationships, including in a primarily digital environment. Demonstrated experience in the profiling, targeting and engagement of senior level stakeholders, identifying opportunities for collaboration and influencing their decision-making
  • Presentation Skills & Experience – Demonstrated experience in presenting to diverse audiences, including at in-person conferences or online webinars
  • Subject Matter Expertise - Expertise in at least one of the following areas, and a strong interest in developing expertise in the remaining domains: positive psychology, mental health and wellbeing, mental health promotion, prevention of mental health conditions, behaviour change, mental health at work or home.
  • Managing a changing environment - Positive, flexible approach with the ability to manage ambiguity
  • Program or Project Management – Knowledge and skills in project planning, budgeting, resource identification and deployment, task and activity monitoring, reporting, and overall project delivery against defined objectives, methods and outcomes
  • Written communication skills - Proven ability to prepare various documents including, briefing notes, budget and planning documents, correspondence and reports with attention to detail and the ability to conceptually analyse information
  • Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline, for example, positive psychology, behavioural insights, public health, health promotion, social sciences or a related discipline

Desirable

  • At least 5 years experience in a stakeholder engagement role, preferably in a related sector.

Beyond Blue is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age. We strongly encourage people from all cultural backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Applicants are welcome to access the Beyond Blue Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2020-2022 here.

To apply, please click the 'Apply now' button below. Applications should include a current CV with a cover letter that addresses why you would consider yourself to be a cultural addition to Beyond Blue and how your skills and experience would be attributes to the position. For detailed information about this position including the closing date, please refer to the position description on our careers page.

Preferred candidates will be required to undertake pre-employment screening, including a National Police Check and where required a Working With Children Check.

NOTE:Short-listing of candidates will commence prior to the closure of this role, so please do not delay submitting your application.

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