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Bilingual Workers - Bendigo

Women's Health Loddon Mallee

Are you fluent in Karen or Dinka and passionate about working with community to create positive and lasting change? Do you enjoy working with families from diverse cultural backgrounds?

THE RAISE THEM EQUAL PROJECT

Raise them Equal: Supporting families to Raise Happy Kids’ is a two-year project that aims to prevent family violence in multicultural and faith communities.

Through promotion of gender equality using a Gender in the Early Year’s lens and whole of community approach, this project will work with Filipino, Karen and South Sudanese communities and will celebrate culture and challenge harmful stereotypes.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

  • This is a paid casual position of approximately 40 hours until August 2023.
  • This position is Bendigo based
  • Some after hours and weekend work may be required

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provide bilingual support to Karen and/or South Sudanese communities
  • Engage with migrant and refugee young families in project activities
  • Participate in capacity building training program
  • Introduction to Gender Equality
  • Gender Equality in the early years and the prevention of family violence
  • Responding to disclosures
  • Facilitation training and managing resistance and backlash
  • Support the delivery of 2 Gender Equity in the Early Years training to target communities
  • Provide bilingual and bicultural support to other program staff
  • Participate in regular reflection and debriefing
  • Participate in and contribute to project meetings and activities
  • Work collaboratively
  • Undertake other duties as required

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WITH

Essential

  • Ability to speak one of the target community languages (Karen, Dinka) fluently
  • Good spoken and written English
  • Willingness to build knowledge and understanding of Gender Equity and Family Violence prevention principles

Preferred

  • Skills in training delivery and/or group facilitation
  • Experience in community work (either paid or voluntary)
  • Understanding and experience in working with migrant and refugee communities
  • Training in MARAM (Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework)

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