Organisation : Uniting
Location : Melbourne, TAS Regional
Work type : Contract/Temporary
Salary type : Other
Application closing date : 29 Oct, 2020
About the organisation
About the role
- Leading Community Services Organisation
- Salary packaging, and competitive sector remuneration
- Full Time, Maximum Term (until June 2021)
- Exciting opportunity to drive Uniting’s consumer-oriented advocacy work
About the opportunity
The Advocacy Insights and Consumer Voice Lead is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to support Uniting’s development of consumer-oriented advocacy work. You will develop and use internal data insights to inform advocacy, ensuring that consumers have input into the identification of advocacy issues, the direction of Uniting’s advocacy and are given opportunities to share their lived experience through Uniting’s advocacy work.
About you
Core to being successful in this role will be your ability to understand new subject matter quickly, demonstrating appropriate initiative whilst working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, the successful candidate will bring a collaborative and can-do passion to the role.
You will bring experience in the design and implementation of social change campaigns and/or public policy, demonstrated genuine consultation and consumer engagement experience will also be considered favourably. A tertiary qualification or relevant experience in public policy or social work.
How to apply
If this sounds like you, apply today by submitting the below:
- Cover Letter (1 page outlining your suitability by addressing the key/core selection criteria according to the position description)
- Current Resume (no more than 3 pages)
Applications close on Thursday 29 October 2020
Get in touch
For more information about the role, please contact Thomas Johnson, Manager – Advocacy on 0400 315 446
About Uniting
At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice.
Visit us: www.unitingvictas.org.au
Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and well-being 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.
We seek to work in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s First Peoples and as the traditional owners and custodians of this land. We celebrate diversity and value the lived experience of people of every ethnicity, faith, age, disability, culture, language, gender identity, sex and sexual orientation. We welcome lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse and non-binary, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people at our services. We pledge to provide inclusive and non-discriminatory services.
How to apply
Applications not allowed for this job listing.
Please quote in application: Advocacy Insights and Consumer Voice Lead via Pro Bono Australia.
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