How to apply
Applications should include:
- Cover letter: outlining your interest in this role.
- Current resume: outlining relevant skills and experience and contact details for at least two referees. Referees will not be contacted until after the interview stage.
- Statement addressing the Application Questions below, in consideration of the selection criteria: up to a three-page response.
Application QuestionsÂ
Address the following questions in no more than three pages, and in consideration of the selection criteria above.
- This role involves coordinating partners, members and stakeholders that are external to the Youth Coalition. This requires bringing people along rather than directing them, through flexible engagement approaches, whilst still ensuring that Alliance activities remain on task and on time. Describe your approach to engaging and collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and how you would build constructive working relationships and consensus across these groups.
- A significant component of this role is activity-focused, which can sometimes become ‘busy work’ rather than moving towards outcomes. Describe a time you had to keep a piece of work focused on results. What were you aiming for? What were the challenges, and what strategies did you use to keep the project focused?
- This role holds relationships with partners and sector stakeholders, requiring trust built upon reliability, follow-through and sound judgement. Describe a time that you built or strengthened that kind of trust. What did you do, and how did it shape the working relationship? What were the challenges?
- This position works largely autonomously, with support from the team, while also contributing to the Youth Coalition workplace and broader activities. What (a) skills, (b) values and (c) personal qualities would you bring to working both independently and as part of a team?
