• Leading Community Services Organisation
• Salary packaging, and competitive sector remuneration
• Full time, Maximum Term up to 30 June 2021
• Bairnsdale location

About the opportunity

We are looking for a motivated Program Facilitator in our Communities for Children program in East Gippsland. This role focuses on consultation and planning to ensure community needs are identified and responded to with a focus on the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children and their families.

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About you

The successful candidate will have:

• An appropriate tertiary and/or post graduate qualification and/or relevant experience in Community Development, Social Work, Human Services or local government sector
• Demonstrated project management experience and knowledge of issues facing vulnerable individuals, families and communities (eg family violence, mental illness)
• Well developed written and verbal communication skills that have demonstrated advocacy, networking and facilitation outcomes
• Experience in using a community development approach
• Satisfactory National police check and Victorian Working with Children Check
• Current Victorian Driver’s license

About Uniting

At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and Working With Children Check (in Victoria) and/or Working With Vulnerable People Check (in Tasmania) prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Uniting is also committed to equal opportunity and ensuring the workplace is reflective of the community. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.