Exciting opportunity to:

• Be part of meaningful change and work for Victoria's peak body for Victorian organisations that specialise in family and gender-based violence across the continuum, including primary prevention, early intervention, response and recovery.
• Apply your family violence expertise to strengthen systems and practices across organisations and businesses nationwide through consultation and training.
• Work in partnership with survivor advocates to ensure responses reflect lived expertise and prioritise the safety of victim survivors.
• Contribute to meaningful change with Victoria’s peak body for organisations that specialise in family and gender-based violence, within an inclusive organisation committed to access, equity and Rainbow Tick Accreditation.

Hourly Rate: $75.8599 per hour, including 25% casual loading.

Office Location: Carlton, VIC, and hybrid working arrangements.

About the Organisation

Safe and Equal is the peak body for Victorian organisations that specialise in family and gender-based violence across the continuum, including primary prevention, early intervention, response and recovery. Our vision is a world where everyone is safe, respected and thriving, living free from family and gender-based violence.

At Safe and Equal, we are committed to creating an inclusive organisation. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to work with us, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people of colour and people from migrant and refuge communities, people of any age or gender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex and/or queer (LGBTIQA+) people, people with lived experience of family violence, and people with disability. We also consider applicants regardless of contact with the justice system and experiences of criminalisation, consistent with our legal requirement.

We are committed to fostering a work environment where everybody can bring their whole self, belong and succeed. We are a proud Equal Opportunity employer and do not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment. We celebrate and support difference and know that one size doesn’t fit all – we endeavour to be flexible, meet your needs, and support you at every stage of your contact with us.

Our office is located in Carlton, with flexible and remote options available. We encourage applications from candidates based in rural and regional Victoria. We remain open to new approaches and actively foster an inclusive workplace that celebrates the contribution made by all our people.

Safe and Equal offers employees a monthly RDO option, individual annual Professional Development budget, generous leave benefits including (but not limited to) Christmas Shutdown Leave, Gender Affirmation leave, Family Violence Leave and Cultural and Ceremonial Leave, and access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

The Team

The Workplace Partnerships and Lived Experience team is a small but highly specialised team that leads Safe and Equal’s social enterprise function. The team partners with organisations across multiple non-family violence sectors nation-wide, to strengthen workplace responses to family and gender-based violence.

At the heart of the team’s work is translating the expertise of the family violence sector into practical, accessible advice, tools and training for sectors outside our own. Working alongside survivor advocates, the team supports organisations to build safer, more inclusive systems and practices.

The Role

Family Violence Advisors are responsible for delivering Safe and Equal’s capability building packages and associated offerings. In this position you will lead and/or support the provision of advice relating to organisational policy and process design as it relates to family violence supports for customers and employees. Additionally, you would deliver capability building offerings including workshop facilitation with a focus on workplace responses to family violence, as part of fee for service requests.

Here are some examples of what you will achieve in the next 12 months as a Family Violence Advisor:

• Provide consulting services across a range of areas including the review and development of workplace policy and procedures, and implementation advice.
• Facilitate consultative workshops with employees and stakeholders.
• Work with survivor advocates with lived experience of family violence to ensure insights and guidance is grounded in lived expertise.
• Deliver defined training packages.
• Tailor workshops and capability building offerings.
• Work with the team to identify emerging trends, risks, issues and opportunities in workplace and private sector responses to family and gender-based violence.

We would be thrilled to meet people who have:

• Experience working in the family or gender-based violence sector.
• Experience in consulting on policies, strategies, frameworks, and general workplace practices, including the ability to translate family violence expertise into accessible, practical advice for organisations outside the specialist family violence sector.
• Lived experience of family or gender-based violence and/or a sophisticated understanding of the ways that gender inequality intersects with other forms of inequality and oppression to exacerbate family violence risk factors and limit people’s access to services, support and safety.
• High level written communications skills with particular experience in policy review, critical analysis and/or report writing.
• Excellent facilitation and group work skills, including the ability to work with resistance and support whole of organisation culture change conversations.
• Tertiary qualification in social work, public policy, community development, human services or welfare and/or vocational education and training (or equivalent experience).
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills, with the ability to build trusting, collaborative relationships and experience engaging with multiple, diverse stakeholders.
• Sound computer skills, with experience in organising and facilitating online meetings and workshops.

Apply

For more information about the key responsibilities, pre-employment checks and salary expectations of the role, download the position description attached below.

To apply, submit a cover letter describing why you think you are suited to this role, along with a copy of your resume via the "Apply Now" button.

If you have questions about this position, please contact Robyn Stone at [email protected] using the subject line: Family Violence Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Applications close at 11:59pm on the advertised closing date*.

*We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Applications will be reviewed periodically ahead of the closing date and as such will be conducting interviews as opportunities arise. If you wish to apply for this position after the closing date, please refer to our ‘Work with Us’ page on our website.

A position description is attached.