We are Ethni

Here at Ethni, our vision is to live in a world where cultural and gender inequality no longer exists. We want a world where every young woman has a place to belong and feels safe to step into her true power. To make this a reality, we are creating safe and empowering spaces where young women from diverse cultural backgrounds can navigate life’s challenges, drive meaningful social change in their community, and shape a more equal world for all. We’ve been doing some amazing work—check us out atethni.com.au.

We are now looking for a new Senior Peer Mentor / Program Coordinator to join our team and help lead the next chapter of the Big Sis Program.

About the Big Sis Program

Big Sis is a peer-led, trauma-informed initiative that supports CALD young women aged 12–30 navigating complex life experiences, including systemic inequality, mental health, housing instability, and social isolation. Through peer mentoring, social activities and psychoeducation retreats, Big Sis offers both a safe space and a pathway toward personal growth, mental health, healing, growth, and belonging.

About the Role

This role is a unique combination of frontline peer mentoring and program coordination. As our Senior Peer Mentor / Program Coordinator, you’ll walk alongside young women, support peer mentors, and guide the delivery of two Big Sis cohorts per year. You’ll coordinate everything from psychoeducation retreats to peer mentoring activities and play a key role in shaping a program that’s been co-designed by the community it serves.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Coordinating Big Sis program delivery across Logan and surrounding regions, including scheduling, logistics, and session planning
• Facilitating strengths-based goal planning with participants and developing flexible support plans that align with mental health, which will escalate opportunities of education, employment, and healing outcomes
• Providing supervision, reflective practice, and wellbeing check-ins to peer mentors, aligned with the QLD Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Framework, trauma informed practice and with cultural responsive practie
• Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with schools, service providers, cultural leaders, and youth networks
• Supporting participants to navigate services such as Child Safety, Centrelink, housing, and mental health systems through warm referrals and light-touch case coordination
• Designing and facilitating group sessions and psychoeducation workshops focused on identity, resilience, mental health, leadership, and community connection
• Co-designing and leading program evaluation.
• Supporting the onboarding, training, and capacity building of new peer mentors and social work students on placement
• Embedding cultural and trauma-informed practices in all aspects of the program—ensuring that participants and mentors are held with safety, dignity, and cultural care
• Participating in internal evaluation, impact reporting, and co-design improvements for future cohorts
• Building relationships with local services and referral partners.
• Facilitating group sessions focused on identity, community connection, mental health, leadership, and healing
• Supporting with case noting, feedback collection, and program reflection

We’ve got a full list of responsibilities and criteria in our formal position description. You can check it out [here] (link).

Who We’re Looking For

We want someone who brings care, courage, and community wisdom into the room. Someone who believes in walking beside, not ahead of, young people, and knows the value of lived experience.

We’d love it if you had:

• Experience coordinating programs and supervising young peer-led teams
• Lived experience navigating mental health challenges, systemic barriers, or the experience of being a young woman from a Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CARM) background in Australia
• Experience in peer support, youth engagement, or community work.
• Skills in trauma-informed, culturally responsive practice
• Confidence in community facilitation, mentoring, or youth engagement
• Experience using relational, co-design approaches to support planning and leadership
• Great communication skills—written and verbal
• Ability to meet young women where they are at and build meaningful relationships.

It’d be good if you had:

• A relevant qualification in youth work, peer work, community development, or social work (diploma minimum - can be in your final year/s of studies as this is a part-time role, but work experience will be essential).

It’s essential that you have (or can get):

• A current Blue Card (Working with Children’s Check)
• A current driver’s licence

Need more info? Contact Kim Rollason-Nokes on 0450 706 050 or Doreen Tubei on 0491 627 301.

You can also visit our website or follow us on Instagram for a deeper look at our work.

A position description is attached.