About Canteen

We help young people cope with cancer in their family. Through Canteen, they learn to explore and deal with their feelings about cancer, connect with other young people in the same boat and if they’ve been diagnosed themselves, we provide specialist, youth-specific treatment teams.

By feeling understood and supported, young people develop resilience and can rebuild the foundations that crumbled beneath them when cancer turned their life upside down.

No matter which role you are in, working for Canteen is how you can be the difference.

Job Summary

We are looking for a visionary leader and experienced manager to be the face of Canteen for the state of Tasmania. This role offers a complex array of opportunities for the right leader to set and lead the strategic vision for the state so that many more young people facing a cancer experience and their families will gain access to Canteen’s range of support options both face to face and online. You will build Canteen’s profile, brand recognition and the understanding of the full breadth of services offered by the organisation.

You will need to harness existing and create new networks in the government, health, corporate and NGO sectors to meaningfully drive Canteen’s cause as well as improving access to funding streams,
fundraising opportunities and partnerships for Canteen in Tasmania.

We are now looking for a passionate and highly capable leader to take and drive Canteen Tasmania into the future. The nature of this position will require the skills to manage and drive existing service and fundraising related strategic and operational plans as well as strategically leading the team and setting the vision for the state for the future.

Skills and Experience

Essential criteria:

• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams with demonstrated ability to develop an effective team culture and high performance.
• Proven experience in developing fundraising strategies and successfully reaching fundraising targets.
• Experience in delivering and/or coordinating organisational promotional activities for service delivery, fundraising, community and corporate sponsors and overall organisational profile building.
• Proven experience in building effective relationships with external stakeholders to drive organisational awareness.
• A tertiary qualification in a relevant business management discipline
• Drivers licence (essential).

Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong presenting and public speaking skills
• Confident networking with general community, as well as corporate, government, health and school professionals
• Ability to engage young people
• Advanced computer skills, especially MS Office
• Strong problem-solving and project-planning skills, with the ability to see projects through
• Ability to think creatively and innovatively
• Ability to prepare and present information in a clear and logical way, and to deliver it with confidence.

Desirable:

• Advanced studies in psycho-social disciplines will be advantageous.
• Experience working with a variety of volunteers is desirable.
• First aid certificate.
• Previous experience providing supervision to a team of psychosocial workers or counsellors is desirable, not essential.
• Experience managing/working in a regionally based office remote from the national office
• Business planning and budgeting.

Life at Canteen

Working for Canteen is an inspiring, rewarding and purposeful experience that enables you to be at your best. Canteen has a passion for all things people, and as well as a range of benefits including 5 weeks of annual leave, an additional 3 days of gifted leave over Christmas, flexible working, tax-effective salary packaging scheme, dog friendly offices and an in-house leadership program, we are continually working on ways to make CanTeen an even better place to work. We have a culture we are proud of, and want to find more people who share our commitment, enthusiasm and passion!

Please refer to the information pack here or see the attachment below.