Sector Development Lead

Who you are (selection criteria)

• You hold relevant qualifications in social sciences education community development or a related field or have equivalent professional experience.
• You have demonstrated experience designing and delivery capability-building initiatives ideally within the health community or social services sectors.
• You are a confident and skilled facilitator who is able to deliver engaging and inclusive trainings workshops and professional learning programs tailored to diverse audiences.
• You are adept at translating complex evidence and research into practical resources and tools that drive practice change.
• You have experience engaging respectfully and effectively with people with Lived and Living Experience ensuring their voices shape outcomes.
• You are a natural collaborator who excels at building and nurturing strong stakeholder relationships.
• You are highly flexible and agile with the ability to adapt quickly to emerging needs shifting priorities and evolving sector 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

• Plan coordinate and deliver professional learning activities including workshops webinars e-learning and blended courses.
• Apply adult learning principles to design inclusive engaging and practical learning experiences across diverse sector contexts.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with practitioners sector partners victims and survivors and other key stakeholders in consultation with the National Centre.
• Collaborate with the Lived Experience Team to ensure safe ethical and supported engagement with survivors so their expertise meaningfully informs all initiatives.
• Manage projects from planning through to delivery ensuring they are completed on time and within budget and to agreed quality standards.

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.