• Drive strategic Executive Leadership of Canteen’s Services and Impact functions.
• Bring your health and community care expertise and help change the lives of young people impacted by Cancer.
• Based in Sydney or Melbourne; hybrid flexibility.

Our commitment

Canteen acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as sovereign custodians of this land. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Canteen is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and people of all ages. We welcome all people including those from diverse backgrounds, faiths, sexual orientation and/or gender identities.

About us

Canteen is all about supporting young people and their families affected by cancer. Founded by young cancer patients, we offer programs and resources that truly make a difference for 12-25 year-olds facing their own diagnosis, supporting a loved one, or grieving. Together, we believe our team can create real change!

We are now seeking an Executive Director, Services & Impact who will provide strategic leadership of Canteen’s services and impact – facilitating young people across Australia to have access to best-practice treatment and support when cancer comes crashing into their world.

Reporting to the CEO, this role will ensure the Services arm of the organisation works closely with the Impact team to implement research findings and undertake the evaluation of Canteen’s interventions, to inform Canteen’s practice and the Board on the efficacy of the organisation’s services and programs.

This is a unique opportunity well suited to a candidate who is visionary and embodies the scientist-practitioner ethos, and who can instill in others how to shape engaging and powerful programmatic and clinical interventions. This senior executive role will see you managing relationships across the nation that span government, departmental, hospital, corporate, philanthropic, academic and Not For Profit stakeholders, including Cancer Hub, which lead to better outcomes for young people impacted by either their own diagnosis or that of a close family member.

About our role

Team Management & Senior Leadership Development

• Lead and empower the Services and Impact leadership team ensuring goals and targets are being met, with a strong focus of ensuring child safe environments.

Executive Functions

• Actively assist with building strong engagement with the organisation’s purpose and the implementation of the strategic plan and the reaching of Key Performance Indicators.
• Attend Board meetings and, as appropriate, any subcommittees of the Board. Provide written and oral reports for the Board and presentations to the Board and staff.
• Represent Canteen externally in a variety of forums.

Highly effective evidence-based services

• Oversee the development and maintenance of our Services practitioners in delivering a broad range of interventions through both digital and face-to-face modalities.
• Oversee the development and implementation of Canteen's impact activities, including research, impact measurement, impact-led learning, and the research / evaluation strategy.
• Ensure that Canteen is compliant with all relevant regulatory requirements, including child safeguarding, National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards.
• Provide executive oversight for the effective implementation of the Child & Youth Cancer Alliance service activities, including Cancer Hub, and maintain effective working relationships with Alliance partners, and Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Partners (ACNNP).
• Provide executive oversight for the effective implementation of AYA Vision 2033, the Youth Cancer Service (YCS), and clinical trials initiative. Maintain effective working relationships with YCS partners, hospitals and clinicians across Australia.
• Continue to drive Canteen’s Youth Leadership Framework both within Services, and across the organisation.

Advocacy

• Oversee the establishment of regular and effective consultation to ensure Canteen’s ability to influence government policy and relationships.
• Develop effective working relationships with a range of government, departmental, community, business, academic, philanthropic and media individuals and organisations on key public policy issues.

About You

• Relevant qualification in psychology, allied health, medicine, nursing or health science or equivalent postgraduate degree, and significant relevant experience and/or postgraduate qualification in management.
• 7+ years of senior management experience with leading service teams delivering a range of highly impactful psychosocial, allied health and/or other interventions.
• Proven experience in developing and managing high-performing managers and teams.
• Excellent communication skills, complemented by strong critical and creative thinking with the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership in the strategic design and implementation of evidence-informed, client-centred, and clinician-relevant monitoring, evaluation, and learning frameworks.
• Demonstrated high level strategic and operational planning skills, including implementation to deliver on agreed objectives within allocated budget and resources.
• Executive level experience and reporting to a Board.
• Individual experience as a practitioner or clinician in social, allied health and/or health field.
• Demonstrated experience in developing or implementing a policy strategy, monitoring policy changes, undertaking literature and policy reviews and providing advice based on policy interpretation.
• Enthusiastic and tenacious attitude, affinity with our Mission, desire to work with young people.

For additional information, or a confidential chat, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Executive Director - Services & Impact enquiry via EthicalJobs.

About our benefits

We connect, we empower, we challenge, and we are real. These values ground the way we work at Canteen, and underpin a culture that brings people together in an inspiring and positive way. Find out more on our LinkedIn Life Page.

• Base Salary + Superannuation + Not-For-Profit Salary Packaging (up to $18,550 of your salary tax-free).
• 5 Weeks Annual Leave (FTE) + 17.5% leave loading + pay during our annual office closure week.
• Early access to long service leave
• Learning & Development opportunities