General Manager Violence Prevention The Men’s Project

General Manager, Violence Prevention – The Men’s Project

• Newly created position within a one-of-a-kind program
• Richmond based role with public transport on our doorstep

About the role

This is a new role within The Men’s Project at Jesuit Social Services. The role will provide leadership on strengthening, overseeing and monitoring practice related to The Men’s Project’s efforts to reduce violence and other harmful behaviours that are prevalent among boys and men.

As well as this the role is responsible for overseeing several teams and initiatives, with a focus on practice development, ongoing implementation of clear processes such as a supervision framework, knowledge translation, evaluation and continuous improvement – including the development of new and innovative responses including seeking funding to support new initiatives.

About the program

The Men’s Project is an initiative of Jesuit Social Services launched in 2017. It provides leadership on the reduction of violence and other harmful behaviours prevalent among boys and men, and builds approaches to improve their wellbeing and keep families and communities safe.

Our vision is for good men, respectful relationships and safe communities.

The Men’s Project builds on Jesuit Social Services’ over 45 year engagement with boys and men in trouble, but it also involves us leading new work to reduce violence, to improve the wellbeing of boys and men, and to keep families and communities safe.

Competitive remuneration, plus salary packaging benefit, is offered together with ongoing professional and career development as well as opportunities for personal growth.

What Jesuit Social Services can offer you:

• An organisation that lives its values, through its day to day work
• A welcoming and supportive relational environment
• A comprehensive Induction and Orientation program
• Ongoing training and development related to your role
• Employee assistance program
• A competitive salary plus salary packaging benefits
• Generous leave

About you

This role will suit a candidate with the following skills and experience:

1. Significant senior leadership and management experience in a relevant field and context.
2. Demonstrated capacity to provide leadership and supervision to a team of practice managers.
3. Significant practice expertise and professional experience working with men and boys to prevent violence and other harmful behaviors ideally in one or more of the settings where our work takes place (e.g. schools; sports; construction; justice).
4. Experience in developing strategic partnerships, engaging senior social sector / government / academic stakeholders and representing an organisation externally with the ability to ‘cut through’ in order to achieve social change;
5.  Excellent relationship building, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, including experience developing a diverse range of partnerships, engaging with funders and fostering collaboration to increase influence and impact.
6. Demonstrated experience in program planning, development and review, in particular the development of new strategies as new areas of need are identified.
7. Understanding and sympathy and a demonstrated capacity to provide leadership in the mission and ethos of Jesuit Social Services.
8. Background in social work, psychology or related field.