• Fixed term contract until 30th June 2025
• Hybrid, remote and work from home options considered within Australia.

About Our Watch

Our Watch is a national leader of primary prevention of violence against women and their children. Our vision is an Australia where women and their children live free from all forms of violence. Our role is to stop violence before it starts. We work to embed gender equality and prevent violence where Australians live, learn, work and socialise. We encourage applicants to visit our website and learn about the essential actions needed to prevent violence against women

Please see our website at ourwatch.org.au.

To follow the ongoing conversation about preventing family violence against women please like our Facebook, Instagram, twitter or LinkedIn pages.

About the role

This exciting new position will lead the coordination of program support for training and capacity building primary prevention activities to prevent violence against women. The Senior Program Support Officer will work with the Program Supports Officers to support and enable effective, streamlined and efficient delivery. You will lead on developing and documenting processes, systems and workflows and support directorate staff to use these.

You will report to the Manager Prevention Quality, Support and Reach and ensure the coordination of the program support work and program support officers. You will assist with the establishment, implementation and automation of systems and processes as directed.

This role will provide lead on the coordination of the facilitator panel.

About you

You will have experience in leading teams and establishing and setting up systems and processes to support program delivery, including but not limited to scheduling (events and personnel), administrative process and systems, resource allocation, creating processes (automated where possible) to implement policies and protocols, enquiry administration and event management.

This position will work collaboratively with PIA colleagues. You will have excellent communication skills across all levels of stakeholders internally and externally and develop and nurture effective relationships across the organisation to support continuous improvement of key organisational and directorate approaches.

Demonstrated experience using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Office 365, Power Automate, Asana and Smartsheet will be advantageous.

You will also have a passion and interest in gender equality and the prevention of violence against women.

Why work for us

Our Watch is strongly committed to the wellbeing of its employees, and we strive to continuously improve our employee experiences at work. Our Watch was recently recognised at the 2023 Australian HR Awards for the Best Workplace Flexibility Program and receiving an Excellence Award as an Employer of Choice in the Not-for-Profit Sector. Our Watch has also recently been announced as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia.

For the full list of our award winning employee benefits, please view the 'Work with us' page on our website.

A few of our unique award winning benefits include:

• Commitment to work life balance for staff, including flexible hours/ ways of working and 5 additional personal leave days per year.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Innovative leave policies, such as floating public holiday leave, cultural leave
• Cultural remuneration package for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff

How to Apply

To apply, please click on the 'Apply Now' button and upload your current resume and cover letter for consideration. Please note, applications with a cover letter will be prioritised.

To view the position description, please see here: Our-Watch-PD-Senior-Program-Support-Officer-.pdf.

Our Watch is committed to diversity, we value people of all cultures, languages, capacities, sexual orientations, gender identities and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our Watch is proud to offer Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander staff an additional remuneration package in recognition of the cultural load they carry and ongoing impacts of colonisation.
We are passionate about providing a barrier-free recruitment process, if you require modifications during the application process to meet your access needs, please contact us.

Applications will be assessed as received. 

Please note, interviews for this role will commence in January 2024.