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Family Partnership Coordinator - Werribee / Brimbank

Michael Page

About The Smith Family

The Smith Family is a national, independent children's charity helping disadvantaged Australians to get the most out of their education, so they can create better futures for themselves.

About the Role

The Family Partnerships Coordinator helps manage and support one of The Smith Family's most valuable programs - Learning for Life. The role involves planning and implementing The Smith Family Scholarships and taking a strengths-based, family-led practice approach with the objective to support stronger educational outcomes for students. You will maintain key relationships with a range of stakeholders, including families on the program, partner schools, community groups, and volunteers.

A day in the life of a Family Partnership Coordinator might look like this, but really every day will be different:

  • Liaising with identified schools and Principals as to progress of referrals of students to the Learning for Life program.
  • Enhancing relationships with key people in schools to positively impact on attendance and school completion rates.
  • Contacting scholarship parents and families to inform of programs being delivered and inviting them to participate.
  • Taking a family led practice approach to maximise school attendance and support key transitions.
  • Ensuring excellent database management and administration support for scholarship students.
  • Sourcing students and families for media opportunities.

The Successful Applicant

It takes a special kind of person to be one of The Smith Family’s Family Partnerships Coordinators. Successful candidates will bring the following:

  • High level interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Excellent organisational and administrative skills (including computer literacy, data entry and time management).
  • Proven experience in establishing and maintaining relevant partnerships.
  • Proven experience in working with families taking a family partnership approach.
  • Hold a current driver’s license.

What's on Offer

Living up to The Smith Family’s employment promise, their team members tell them that working for The Smith Family provides great job flexibility and the ability to work alongside committed, passionate, and professional team members whilst engaging in challenging, fulfilling, and diverse work.

In turn, their team members believe that they offer commitment to their vision, mission and values, and effective collaboration with fellow team members to deliver strong performance outcomes.

If you are passionate about what you do, committed to making a difference and the Family Partnership Coordinator sounds like your next role, please click apply, we'd love to hear from you.

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate must be prepared to undertake a National Police Check and a Working with Children's Check. The Smith Family is an equal opportunity employer and are committed to principles of cultural diversity. Applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged.

For any other information, please contact Conor Grace on +61 431 983 152.

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