• Exciting opportunity to lead system change and improve integration between key services responding to family violence
• Ongoing full-time role in Ringwood with hybrid options available
• Salary packaging available

About the RFVP and FVREE

The Regional Family Violence Partnership (RFVP) is the Family Violence Regional Integration Committee across the Eastern Metropolitan Region (EMR) which covers the Department of Fairness and Housing areas of Inner Eastern and Outer Eastern Melbourne. The role of the RFVP is to provide strategic leadership to drive effective cross-sector work to address family violence, sexual violence and violence against women.

The Partnership is made up over 50 highly engaged member agencies from a range of sectors across the EMR. Members include lived experience advocates specialist family violence specialist services, and well as services across primary prevention, child and family, justice, legal, ACCOs, homelessness and disability services. The partnership works to identify and implement creative solutions to address barriers to regional integration and to support the implementation of Victorian government family violence reforms.

The RFVP is auspiced by FVREE who are also an RFVP member organisation. FVREE is a leading not-for-profit specialist family violence service in Melbourne’s EMR providing an integrated range of support and services to empower women and children who are responding to family violence. You can find out more about FVREE here

Under the leadership of the Principal Strategic Advisor (PSA), the RFVP creates an authorising environment for collaboration, enabling connections across organisations and helping to create strong cross-sector relationships that strengthen our local service system.

About the Opportunity

Working collaboratively with organisational partners and lived experience advocates to enable regional leadership, the PSA provides strategic guidance and drives coordination across the partnership, ultimately aiming to strengthen integration across the family violence and related service systems in the Inner and Outer Eastern Melbourne Regions.

The PSA represents the RFVP in statewide committees and forums, ensuring regional perspectives inform system reform and act as an information conduit between local and statewide work and structures.

About You

We are looking for someone who is

• experienced in working within or leading a partnership, systems or integration focused role (in a senior leadership capacity) and has worked within or alongside the specialist family violence sector or other relevant social and human service sector.
• familiar with public policy, advocacy or government reform implementation and understand the current family violence policy and reform context.
• experienced in organisational development or coaching experience, particularly in supporting practitioners and emerging leaders
• experienced working with or reporting to a board

You describe yourself as:

• a strategic thinker who is intuitive and astute at anticipating needs and issues and is creative and solutions-focused in complex or changing environments
• personable and with a strong understanding of diversity and flexible in your approach with people
• curious and willing to learn
• emotionally intelligent, self-aware, and reflective, always working with a high level of personal and professional integrity
• passionate, patient, persistent and highly motivated by collective impact and achieving shared outcomes across systems

Why work with us?

• At FVREE we are a welcoming, supportive and inclusive team, driven by a shared vision of a community free from violence where everyone is safe.
• We walk the talk on inclusion: bring your whole self to work
• We believe in lifelong learning and support our people to engage in professional development.
• We embrace flexibility and hybrid working - whilst we believe some time together in person is critical, we know balancing life and work is important
• We have great benefits like parental leave, EAP and wellbeing programs

Want to know more?

You can find more details in the position description if you have questions, reach out to Emily Maguire, RFVP Independent Chair on 0403885570 or for any support submitting your application please email [email protected] using the subject line: Principal Strategic Advisor - Regional Family Violence Partnership enquiry via EthicalJobs.

How to Apply

• Click on the Apply now button
• Upload your resume and a brief cover letter, explaining your interest and suitability for the role.

* A two-stage interview process will be conducted for shortlisted candidates, expected to be in the weeks beginning 8th and 15th December

Our commitment to safety, equity, diversity and inclusion

We believe that the unique and diverse contributions of all our people at FVREE create our success. To ensure that our culture and our services continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we encourage applications from people of diverse backgrounds, communities, identities and abilities.

FVREE is a Rainbow Tick Accredited and inclusive employer. We do not discriminate based on someone’s ability, age, gender, body, sexuality, relationship, faith, or culture; staying true to our commitment as an equitable and safe place of employment for our people.

FVREE is a child-focused and child safe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and interests of children. All appointments with FVREE are subject to a police records check, working with children check and reference checks.