Manager, Lived Experience Projects and Partnerships

Who you are (selection criteria)

• Tertiary qualifications in health community development or social sciences or the equivalent experience will be viewed favourably.
• You are deeply committed to championing Lived and Living Experience as a privileged and essential source of knowledge leadership and expertise.
• You bring demonstrated experience leading survivor-led or community-informed projects that generate knowledge support healing and influence systemic change.
• You bring strong project management capabilities with experience leading complex multi-stakeholder initiatives from conception to completion.
• You are confident in developing project plans managing competing priorities and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget with trauma-responsive and culturally safe practice.
• You are a skilled collaborator capable of building trusting partnerships and working with a diverse range of stakeholders; including people with Lived Experience survivor-led organisations priority communities and sector leaders.
• You bring strong strategic thinking excellent communication skills and the ability to lead with humility purpose and care in sensitive and evolving contexts.
• You are aligned with the National Centres mission to disrupt child sexual abuse and bring about systemic change.
• You demonstrate a trauma-informed ethical and survivor engaged approach to your work and understand the critical importance of working in partnership with people with Lived Experience; ensuring their voices are heard respected and meaningfully embedded in all that you do.

Research indicates that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria women and other marginalised individuals often wait until they fulfil every requirement. If you believe you have the attributes to do the job but dont match every point on the job ad we welcome and encourage your application.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and lead innovative partnership approaches that enable people with Lived Experience to lead design and deliver projects that enhance evidence and understanding of best practice responses to child sexual abuse across the lifespan.
• Proactively build and maintain partnerships with people with Lived Experience survivor-led organisations and representatives of diverse communities to build understanding mobilise action and amplify impact.
• Lead the planning facilitation and evaluation of participatory and inclusive methods approaches and activities to ensure National Centre activities reflect the voice of people with Lived Experience.
• Advise on best practice approaches for engaging and embedding Lived Experience across the National Centre ensuring inclusive culturally safe and trauma-responsive engagement practices.
• Oversee and manage the Lived Experience Project Lead providing leadership guidance and support training skill development and performance reviews.

How to apply

To express your interest submit an online application through our application portal and include a professional resume. All applicants must also provide brief responses to the application questions that are included as part of the online application.

Note: we do not accept cover letters as part of our application process.

Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and we may close our job advertisement without notice so dont delay your application.

The National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse is an equal opportunity employer and strives to maintain a workplace environment that is fair and free of discrimination is safe and accessible for all employees and provides working arrangements that accommodate the diverse needs of our staff. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people women people from culturally- and linguistically-diverse backgrounds LGBTQIA people and people of every ethnicity faith ability culture language gender identity age and sex.

Employment in this position is conditional upon reception and maintenance of reference checks as part of pre-employment screening and a Working With Children Check (or state equivalent).

As part of our employment screening process we do run police checks. But dont worryhaving a criminal record doesnt automatically disqualify you.

Required Experience:

Manager