• Team Leader - managing a multidisciplinary team including Supported Accommodation, Youth Support and Community Support in a Community Centre setting
• Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry award Level 6
• Salaried Position - 30 hrs Per week minimum Monday to Friday 8.30am -3.00pm
• Relevant qualifications and minimum 5 years experience working in a Community Centre

about the role

The Position oversees, and is responsible for, the daily operation of the Zillmere Community Centre Program which is funded to provide Community support, advocacy, and education activities to community members, particularly those in vulnerable, at-risk population groups. The position is also responsible for ensuring that all programs operate in accordance with NECSG Operating standards & service agreements with funding bodies.

Selection criteria

• Demonstrated capacity for leadership of a multidisciplinary team and/or minimum 5 years’ experience in a neighbourhood centre.
• Formal relevant qualifications (to be sighted at interview).
• A high degree of professionalism and well-developed interpersonal skills with a capacity to build effective relationships with service providers, staff, volunteers, clients, and all levels of government.
• Demonstrated highly developed written and oral communication and computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office suite including, but not limited to, Word, Excel, & Outlook as a minimum
• Demonstrated ability to develop, plan, and achieve strategic organisational outcomes.
• The ability to identify needs and to plan, develop, resource, monitor, and evaluate high quality programs to meet those needs.
• Demonstrated understanding of community development principles and practice in a community centre setting.
• Demonstrated understanding of Governance structures within a non-for-profit organisation and capacity to work effectively with, and resource a volunteer-based Management Committee.
• Demonstrated understanding of financial management where complex and multiple funding arrangements exist.
• Demonstrated ability to write grant applications and/or tenders.
• Current open Driver’s License and current Working with Children Positive Notice Blue card (Both to be sighted at interview).

A position description is attached.