• Employment Status: Full-time, Ongoing
• SCHADS Level 6 + Super + 17.5% Leave Loading + Salary Packaging
• Location: Northern and Western Suburbs

Kids First have a prominent 125-year history of safeguarding children achieved through an unwavering commitment to people and transformation. If you want to make a difference through your leadership and are looking for meaning and substance working for an organisation that acknowledges your value by offering great working conditions and flexible working arrangements, then this could be your next opportunity.

Your new role

As Team Leader, Youth Services, you will play a vital role in Kids First's Victorian leadership team. Leading a team of youth practitioners, you will deliver high-quality, community-based services to support young people experiencing homelessness or community disconnection. This includes managing and developing a team, ensuring service standards, meeting reporting requirements, and fostering partnerships across the sector to promote Kids First's mission and values.

This includes:

• Overseeing a team of up to 10 practitioners across multiple sites, offering supervision, training, and fostering a high-performance team culture.
• Ensuring adherence to practice standards, manage client feedback, and maintain compliance with Kids First policies and funding requirements.
• Cultivating relationships with key stakeholders, including government agencies, community organisations, and philanthropic partners, to strengthen community impact.
• Managing program budgets, identify funding opportunities, and contribute to ongoing risk management and quality improvements.

About you:

• You have relevant qualifications in Youth Work, Community Development, or Management.
• You're a confident people manager with at 3-5 years of experience in a supervisory role within youth or community services.
• You lead from the front with the ability to support each unique member of your team, with a commitment to professional development.
• You have a strong understanding of issues facing young people, including family violence and homelessness.

How we reward you

• An organisation that truly lives its values
• Kids First understands the importance of flexible working and has a policy to support this
• Be nurtured in your career, including professional development in specialist evidence-based models, such as Promoting First Relationships (PFR)
• Enjoy ‘not for profit' benefits such as salary packaging to increase your take-home pay
• We know how important it is to spend time with family which is why you get 3 additional leave days at Christmas
• Purchased leave and portable long service leave options
• Access our Staff Wellbeing Program

Don't delay, apply now!

Only applications submitted via our website will be considered.

To view a full position description or to apply, please click 'Apply Now'.

For inquiries about the position: Monique Yeoman, VIC State Manager - [email protected] using the subject line: Team Leader - Youth Services enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Kids First is an Equal Opportunity employer that respects and values diversity and inclusion. Kids First welcomes everyone to apply, regardless of age, ethnicity, cultural background, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, and physical ability.

Kids First is a Child Safe Organisation, employment is conditional on satisfactory referee checks, a current Working With Children Check, National Criminal History check, proof of the right to work in Australia and a pre-employment medical (if applicable).