Project Officer (Identifying and Responding to Family Violence)

• 12 month 0.4EFT part time position or 9 month 0.6EFT part time position
• Salary packaging available
• Open to secondment arrangement

Banyule Community Health – North East Healthy Communities (previously North East PCP) is seeking an experienced Project Officer with a track record of success in supporting health and community services to identify and respond to family violence. The role will play a pivotal role in directly supporting a select number of our partner agencies to implement the Identifying and Responding to Family Violence project objectives. The project aims to provide a more streamlined and coordinated service system response to family violence by:

• Building the capacity of mainstream health organisations to effectively identify and respond to family violence
• Supporting organisations to develop a whole of organisation approach to family violence
• Strengthening and consolidating the pathways between mainstream health organisations and the integrated family violence sector across the North East Metropolitan Region

The key responsibilities for this position include:

• In collaboration with relevant project partner agencies, develop and implement plans to achieve selected IRFV program objectives
• Support evaluation of initiatives and their contribution toward the achievement of IRFV program objectives
• Deliver in-house training to project partners and build the capacity of relevant staff to deliver such training in the future

The key skills required for this role include:

• Demonstrated success in supporting well-received workplace policy and practice change
• Demonstrated ability to deliver training
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the policy and service delivery context of the Victorian family violence sector