Make a real difference

Be part of one of Victoria’s leading not-for-profits and help create meaningful change in the community every day.

• Location: Hume Community Hub - Shepparton
• Work type: Part Time – Maximum Term (12 Months)
• Salary: SCHADS 4 at $44.58 - $47.97 per hour + Superannuation + NFP Salary Packaging
• Working model: On Site

A little bit about you

Your skills and capabilities will include:

• High degree of interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Self-motivated with the capacity to work autonomously and manage priorities, time and workload.
• Contributes to team outcomes and a positive team culture.
• Resilient and perseveres in the face of setbacks, change and/or challenges.

About the role

Reporting to the Snr. Financial Counsellor, your primary responsibility will be to provide coaching for, and a focus on building financial skills and resilience of clients seeking to engage with our Financial Counsellors. You will confidently and competently be able to coordinate and facilitate financial literacy education and community workshops to enable individuals to make informed financial decision to improve their overall financial wellbeing.

While you do not provide financial advice or manage debt directly, you will work alongside our Financial Counsellors, providing administrative support, undertaking intake and assessment, as well as supporting clients to navigate life transitions and/or financial stress or crisis, including budgeting and relevant pathways to financial independence.

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Qualifications

• Relevant Tertiary Qualification in Community Services with the following mandatory units:
  • CHCFLE301A - Work with clients needing financial  literacy education
  • CHCFLE302A - Educate clients in fundamental financial literacy skills, and
  • CHCFLE303A - Educate clients to understand debt and consumer credit
• Member of (or eligible for membership with) Financial Counselling Victoria (FCVic).
• Valid Victorian Driver Licence.

Why join Vincentcare?

• Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
• Career Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• We offer a place where you know you are contributing to a firm committed to helping others. We are passionate about #SocialJustice.

About Vincentcare Victoria

VincentCare Victoria is an award-winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

We are a leading community-focused organisation dedicated to supporting people experiencing disadvantage, including homelessness and those impacted by family violence.  We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including career development opportunities; salary packaging; study leave; family friendly, flexible working environment.

VincentCare is committed to demonstrating the principles of self-determination, reconciliation, intersectional inclusion, equity, and social justice. 

This means that we will resolutely:

• Take specific steps to ensure that all staff, volunteers and clients feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect.
• Celebrate people’s diverse physical and cognitive abilities, mental or cognitive health status, cultural background and ethnicity, gender identity, sex characteristic, sexual orientation, age, faith or non-faith.
• Critically review our work to identify disadvantages and we actively seek to place the voices and expertise of marginalised people at the centre of our actions when improving our inclusion strategies.
• Lead by example in how we challenge disadvantage and contribute to a more equitable world which is free from discrimination and marginalisation.

 Want to know more?

• Homelessness & Housing Services - VincentCare
• VincentCareVictoria Facebook
• VincentCareVictoria Instagram
• VincentCareVictoria LinkedIn
• VincentCareVictoria Youtube

How to apply

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Please submit:

• Your CV
• A short cover letter outlining your suitability

Please note: applications will be reviewed as they are received and the role may close earlier. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Phone enquiries may be made to Tracie Driscoll, Senior Financial Counsellor, on 0417 334 092.

Important information

• Pre-employment checks are required (including National Police Check, Working With Children Check and right to work)
• We are committed to child safety
• We value diversity and inclusion and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all backgrounds

No agencies please.

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