Community Health Promotion Officer LGBTQ+ Disability Program

• We are on the lookout for someone to join the Disability program and play a vital role in implementing our Coaching and Support for LGBTQ+ Leaders with Disability Project.
• Part-time (0.4 FTE) fixed-term position.

What’s the LGBTQ+ Leaders with Disability Project, you say?

The Coaching and Support for LGBTQ+ Leaders with Disability Project is a newly government funded project that seeks to take innovative approaches in providing tailored training, peer leadership, support groups and individual coaching amongst LGBTQ+ leaders with disability, with a focus on enhancing leadership capacity, reducing isolation and ultimately strengthening the broader LBGTQ+ disability community through sharing skills and sustainable community networking.

Ok, so what’s the role?

The CHPO LGBTQ+ Disability Program will essentially coordinate and support the program manager with the development, implementation and evaluation of the Coaching and Support for LGBTQ+ Leaders Project. You will:

• Administer and coordinate the delivery of individual coaching, support sessions and peer skills-based training for LGBTQ+ leaders with disability.
• Engage qualified external coaches and professionals to enhance leadership capacity and customise program content based on community-identified needs.
• Plan and organise the online LGBTQ+ Disability Leadership Group as a support to an experienced external peer supervisor.

Who are we looking for?

• Someone living with disability and/or demonstrated experience working with people with disability, with comprehensive knowledge of the intersectional needs and issues LGBTQ+ people with disabilities face.
• Someone with strong administrative and organisation skills, with demonstrated understanding of health and community development projects, including computer literacy and social media capability.
• Someone with strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, and is confident engaging with community members and external stakeholders.

What else can we tell you?

ACON provides a colourful, nurturing, and fun workplace. Our employees and volunteers are the foundation for our ongoing effectiveness and for our capacity to deliver innovative community engagement and health promotion programs and initiatives for our communities.

To support the successful candidate in their new role at ACON we offer:

• Flexible working arrangements.
• Generous learning and development opportunities.
• Potential for tailored mentoring opportunities.
• Supportive working environment with a knowledgeable and friendly team.

We provide a flexible and supportive working environment. You’ll be a part of the Community Health Division. A highly focused team that seeks to address the social determinates of health and enhance the justice, empowerment, autonomy, capacity, community connection and self-determination of LGBTQ+ people and population groups, rightly united by a rainbow.

What’s the remuneration and working details?

Salary: $72,547.00 to $75,625.00 (Gross FTE per-annum, PLUS Superannuation and Leave Loading) – commensurate with skills, qualifications, and experience.

Location: ACON’s Gadigal / Sydney Office, with flexible working options a possibility (away from the office).

Hours: Part-Time (28 hours per fortnight) on a 1-year fixed-term contract.

We offer flexible working arrangements and a generous array of benefits and entitlements often above the National Employment Standards (NES) including:

• Salary Packaging up to $35,000 gross up value (i.e., currently up to $15,900 Expenses + $2,650 Meals, tax free).
• Generous pro-rata leave entitlements – including up to an extra week of paid leave for full time employees to be taken during our Christmas and New Year’s shutdown period.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – access to a comprehensive counselling service free to employees.
• Access to discounted unique accommodation experiences to improve employee health and wellbeing.