• Permanent part-time position 0.9 EFT 
• Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 Level 6

About Women’s Health East 

Women’s Health East is a women’s health promotion agency based in Doncaster East that works across Melbourne’s eastern region. WHE’s vision is equality, empowerment, health and wellbeing for all women. Our strategic priorities are to advance gender equality, prevent violence against women and improve women’s sexual and reproductive health. Women’s Health East is recruiting for a number of positions following new investment from the Victorian State Government in the women’s health sector. 

Role summary  

The Team Leader is responsible for providing daily leadership, management, and coordination of a range of initiatives that support health equity and promote women’s mental health and wellbeing in the eastern metropolitan region. The position provides operational support and direction to the Bicultural Workers to enhance project delivery and improve gendered health outcomes for migrant and refugee women. The Team Leader is responsible for supporting Women’s Health East’s Reconciliation Action Plan and building strong relationships and collaborative partnerships with Aboriginal organisations, Elders, women, and their communities. 

The Team leader achieves this through coordinating, participating in, and where relevant, leading the delivery of projects and collaborative activities that build gender equity and respond to the key determinants of women’s mental health and wellbeing. The Team Leader is a member of the leadership team and plays an important role in ensuring collaboration across Women’s Health East’s health promotion programs and initiatives to achieve organisational goals and objectives. 

Why work for Women’s Health East

Women’s Health East is a pro-choice feminist organisation with a strong culture and a professional and dedicated staff. Employees enjoy a range of benefits that include hybrid working arrangements, special leave, training and professional development, and access to an Employee Assistance Program. Staff can salary package a tax-free component of up to $15,899 of their gross salary per year and salary package a meal entertainment and holiday accommodation benefit. 

The position description is available at www.whe.org.au

For further information about this position, please contact Belinda Crockett, Health Promotion Manager at [email protected] using the subject line: Team Leader - Community Engagement enquiry via EthicalJobs or call 0404 036 576.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women from culturally diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQ women and women with disability are strongly encouraged to apply. Women’s Health East has an exemption under the Equal Opportunity Act to employ only people who identify as women – EO exemption H216/2017.

A position description is attached.