• Flexible start/finish hours, work remotely up to 3 days /week
• Focus on corporate and business partnerships
• Work remotely up to 3 days /week
• A beautiful pet-friendly office in Collingwood!
• $96,212.37 - $100,560.35 base plus super + NFP salary packaging (income tax savings!)
• Additional week of Well-being Leave
• The opportunity to have a tangible impact on the thousands experiencing homelessness every night in Melbourne

The Role and About You

Launch Housing is on the lookout for a Partnerships Engagement Specialist ready to channel their passion, creativity, and relationship-building expertise to help end homelessness in Melbourne.

We're seeking a dynamic partnership engagement professional to step into this newly created role and join our growing team in the new year. Our ideal candidate is self-driven, people-focused, and adept at driving internal engagement and nurturing external relationships.

As a brand champion and ambassador for our mission, you'll play a pivotal role in expanding our partnerships with industry leaders, social enterprises, and businesses. Your can-do attitude, collaborative mindset, and excellent communication skills will be instrumental in developing opportunities to deepen these connections through engaging staff initiatives, campaigns, events, and compelling content.

In this role, you'll be instrumental in raising awareness about the complex nature of homelessness, challenging stigma, and advocating for collaborative solutions that will help make Melbourne a world leading city in ending homelessness.

You will play an important role in nurturing these corporate and business supporters, by increasing their connection to the cause through staff engagement and fundraising initiatives, events and supporting the development of engaging partner content to demonstrate their impact.

Your adaptability, creativity, and commitment to driving meaningful change will be vital in this dynamic environment, empowering you to collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders and deliver mutually beneficial partnerships for Launch Housing and our partners to support people impacted by homelessness in Melbourne.

What we're looking for (key selection criteria):

• At least two years’ experience in a similar role establishing and nurturing strong relationships with external partners, stakeholders, and collaborators.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to convey ideas clearly and adapt communication style for various audiences.
• Experience in coordinating and managing projects, ensuring deadlines are met and deliverables are achieved.
• Demonstrated track record of achieving partnership-related goals, such as revenue generation, increased brand visibility, or expanded reach.
• Experience working in the housing/homelessness or related sector (desirable).
• Demonstrated commitment to the values of Launch Housing and our mission to end homelessness.

WHY JOIN LAUNCH HOUSING

Our mission is to end homelessness. We aim to get people housed, keep them housed, and be an influential voice on ending homelessness. We are a secular, independent provider of choice for clients and we're 'striving to be' the go-to organisation on homelessness for government, media, philanthropy, private donors and the community.

Our people are the backbone of our organisation and supporting their wellbeing and professional development is critical to our ability to help our clients and the community. We value lived experience and diversity in our staff, and actively work to ensure everyone is able to make their career with Launch Housing fulfilling.

Launch Housing is working to become more trauma informed and as a leading employer in the homelessness sector, it is important to let you know that you may hear stories of distress, hardship, trauma, or violence when working with us. We encourage you to reflect on how this may impact you when considering applying for the role. Sustaining the Health & Well-being of our staff is our priority. We provide adequate training & supervision, Wellbeing Days, and access to Employee Assistance Program.

Launch Housing offers a wide range of career opportunities and employs a diverse range of talent. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons to apply! We acknowledge, respect and celebrate Aboriginal cultures, languages, connections to Country and heritage, customs and practices. We're committed to support Aboriginal peoples to obtain genuine and fulfilling career with us!

If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know at [email protected].

Launch Housing is committed to being a child safe organisation and has zero tolerance to child abuse. Our hiring process involves rigorous screening of applicants. All of our people including students, contractors and volunteers must hold a valid Working with Children Check and satisfactory criminal history record check.

Launch Housing is an Equal Opportunity employer and supports accessible working arrangements for all. This includes people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people, young people, older people, women, and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex or queer. We acknowledge Lived Experience as a unique expertise and encourage people with a Lived Experience of Homelessness to apply. All applicants must have the right to work in Australia.

How to Apply

To apply for this opportunity, please click on the "Apply Now" button. Please submit a covering letter addressing the key selection criteria and your CV.

If you need additional information about this role, please contact Elle Hotham on [email protected] using the subject line: Partnerships Engagement Specialist enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Please note shortlisting will occur on a rolling basis, so please don't delay in submitting your application!

A position description is attached.

This is a Targeted position and therefore open to applicants from an Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage by an exemption granted under section 12 of the Vic – Equal Opportunity Act 2010. This is a recruitment strategy to increase the Aboriginal workforce.

This position is classified under ‘special measures' of section 12 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010. While all applicants are invited to apply, applicants who indicate that they identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander will be prioritised in the selection process.