• Fixed Term (3 years)
• Part Time (60.8 hours per fortnight)
• Commensurate with a University Level B-C dependent on qualifications and experience + 9.5 % Employer superannuation
• Generous salary packaging options available
• Fitzroy location

About us

Youth Support + Advocacy Service (YSAS) is Australia’s largest and most comprehensive, youth specific community service organisation that enables young people experiencing serious disadvantage to access the resources and support they require to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

YSAS is a Child Safe organisation. We actively promote the safety and wellbeing of young people, and are committed to protecting young people from harm or abuse who come into contact with and/or access our service. Applicants must undergo rigorous screening and recruitment processes, including providing evidence of current WWCC and National Police Check.

About the position

The General Manager - Research & Practice will lead a program of work with 3 interrelated purposes:

1. To enable YSAS, our partners and relevant policy makers to understand the needs and preferences of the young people and families who are YSAS clients, in relation to the services they require and how they are delivered
2. To ensure that the services YSAS and our partners deliver for young people and families are informed by the latest evidence on what works in practice. This incorporates:
   1. Identifying, analysing and synthesising applicable evidence that has been derived from research or program evaluations
   2. Commissioning and/or collaborating on studies and evaluations to generate new evidence that can be applied in practice
3. To create the conditions where practitioners employed by YSAS and our partners can learn to apply our best knowledge of ‘what works’ in practice

In fulfilling these interrelated purposes, the General Manager - Research & Practice will have national and international reach in demonstrating how the quality of services available for young people and families experiencing serious disadvantage can be improved. The General Manager - Research & Practice will also oversee the ‘Centre for Youth AOD Research & practice and manage the formal research partnerships YSAS has with:

• The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
• Orygen Youth Health

Your key responsibilities will include

• Build the capacity of YSAS to become a sustainable learning organisation
• Develop ‘the Centre for Youth AOD Research & Practice’ into a leading national source of information regarding Youth AOD practice and associated issues
• Provide a high level of support and supervision to a team of practice and workforce development professionals
• Implement a ‘research and practice’ operational plan that is aligned with the YSAS purpose and strategic plan
• Foster effective collaborations with researchers, expert practitioners and service users that will directly benefit the young people and families that YSAS works with
• Manage the formal research partnerships YSAS has with ‘the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’ & Orygen Youth Health

Please note: service delivery aspects of the role may be modified in order to comply with Victorian Government COVID-19 guidelines.

For full details of the position, please view the Position Description below or visit our website www.ysas.org.au.

Please note: As part of our Employment screening process you will be required to undertake a National Criminal History check and have a current Working With Children Check.

Further Enquiries

For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Paula Kohler-Saunders on 03 9415 8881.

• YSAS is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from all sectors of the community.
• YSAS has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation.

Due to the predicted volume of applications, please note you will only be contacted if you are successful in progressing to a first round interview.