Executive Director, Services & Impact

Executive Director Services & Impact

Drive strategic Executive Leadership of Canteens Services and Impact functions.

Bring your health and community care expertise and help change the lives of young people impacted by Cancer.

Based in Sydney or Melbourne; hybrid flexibility.

Our commitment

Canteen acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as sovereign custodians of this land. We pay our respects to Elders past present and emerging. Canteen is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and people of all ages. We welcome all people including those from diverse backgrounds faiths sexual orientation and/or gender identities.

About us

Canteen is all about supporting young people and their families affected by cancer. Founded by young cancer patients we offer programs and resources that truly make a difference for 1225 yearolds facing their own diagnosis supporting a loved one or grieving. Together we believe our team can create real change!

We are now seeking an Executive Director Services & Impact who will provide strategic leadership of Canteens services and impact facilitating young people across Australia to have access to bestpractice treatment and support when cancer comes crashing into their world.

Reporting to the CEO this role will ensure the Services arm of the organisation works closely with the Impact team to implement research findings and undertake the evaluation of Canteens interventions to inform Canteens practice and the Board on the efficacy of the organisations services and programs.

This is a unique opportunity well suited to a candidate who is visionary and embodies the scientistpractitioner ethos and who can instill in others how to shape engaging and powerful programmatic and clinical interventions. This senior executive role will see you managing relationships across the nation that span government departmental hospital corporate philanthropic academic and Not For Profit stakeholders including Cancer Hub which lead to better outcomes for young people impacted by either their own diagnosis or that of a close family member.

About our role

Team Management & Senior Leadership Development

Lead and empower the Services and Impact leadership team ensuring goals and targets are being met with a strong focus of ensuring child safe environments.

Executive Functions

Actively assist with building strong engagement with the organisations purpose and the implementation of the strategic plan and the reaching of Key Performance Indicators.

Attend Board meetings and as appropriate any subcommittees of the Board. Provide written and oral reports for the Board and presentations to the Board and staff.

Represent Canteen externally in a variety of forums.

Highly effective evidencebased services

Oversee the development and maintenance of our Services practitioners in delivering a broad range of interventions through both digital and facetoface modalities.

Oversee the development and implementation of Canteens impact activities including research impact measurement impactled learning and the research / evaluation strategy.

Ensure that Canteen is compliant with all relevant regulatory requirements including child safeguarding National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards.

Provide executive oversight for the effective implementation of the Child & Youth Cancer Alliance service activities including Cancer Hub and maintain effective working relationships with Alliance partners and Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Partners (ACNNP).

Provide executive oversight for the effective implementation of AYA Vision 2033 the Youth Cancer Service (YCS) and clinical trials initiative. Maintain effective working relationships with YCS partners hospitals and clinicians across Australia.

Continue to drive Canteens Youth Leadership Framework both within Services and across the organisation.

Advocacy

Oversee the establishment of regular and effective consultation to ensure Canteens ability to influence government policy and relationships.

Develop effective working relationships with a range of government departmental community business academic philanthropic and media individuals and organisations on key public policy issues.

About You

Relevant qualification in psychology allied health medicine nursing or health science or equivalent postgraduate degree and significant relevant experience and/or postgraduate qualification in management.

7 years of senior management experience with leading service teams delivering a range of highly impactful psychosocial allied health and/or other interventions.

Proven experience in developing and managing highperforming managers and teams.

Excellent communication skills complemented by strong critical and creative thinking with the ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.

Demonstrated leadership in the strategic design and implementation of evidenceinformed clientcentred and clinicianrelevant monitoring evaluation and learning frameworks.

Demonstrated high level strategic and operational planning skills including implementation to deliver on agreed objectives within allocated budget and resources.

Executive level experience and reporting to a Board.

Individual experience as a practitioner or clinician in social allied health and/or health field.

Demonstrated experience in developing or implementing a policy strategy monitoring policy changes undertaking literature and policy reviews and providing advice based on policy interpretation.

Enthusiastic and tenacious attitude affinity with our Mission desire to work with young people.

Applications close on Wednesday 28th May 2025. For additional information or a confidential chat please contact

About our benefits

We connect we empower we challenge and we are real. These values ground the way we work at Canteen and underpin a culture that brings people together in an inspiring and positive way. Find out more on our LinkedIn Life Page.

Base Salary Superannuation NotForProfit Salary Packaging (up to $18550 of your salary taxfree).

5 Weeks Annual Leave (FTE) 17.5% leave loading pay during our annual office closure week.

Early access to long service leave

Learning & Development opportunities.