Program Counsellor – Melbourne (North and South East)

Raise Foundation

• Apply immediately! Be part of a team responsible for delivering best practice youth mentoring to over 2000 at risk young people across Australia
• Casual opportunity 10-15 hours per week. 2 positions available.
• Melbourne (North and South East) VIC

ABOUT RAISE:

We exist to help young people. We do one thing and we do it really well youth mentoring.

Our best-practice program is proven to make positive and sustained change. Mentoring empowers young people to be resilient connected and hopeful for the future. We match trained and trusted volunteers with teenagers who would benefit most from an independent caring adult who is there to listen and show up just for them.

Our early intervention youth mentoring program is currently in over 180 high schools across Australia and available online. This translates to over 2000 young people matched with a qualified mentor each year

Join our village of passionate people who care deeply about young people and making a meaningful impact through mentoring. Enjoy a flexible positive and collaborative work environment where you can make a meaningful difference.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

There are two casual positions available for 10-15 hours a week leading programs. One is based in the north and the other in the south east suburbs of Melbourne VIC.

Our Program Counsellors (PCs) are responsible for the successful coordination implementation delivery and completion of Raise mentoring programs at one or more allocated high schools ensuring mentors and mentees have a positive experience and the program achieves successful outcomes.

Reporting to the State Lead VIC/TAS you will be responsible for group facilitation providing professional support to mentors and mentees supervision of mentors and mentees key stakeholder communication and management and quality reporting.

Other responsibilities of the role can be found in the Position Description

ABOUT YOU:

We are looking for someone who:

Has a genuine passion for supporting young people and commitment to Raises purpose intent and aspiration

Has relevant qualifications in counselling youth work social work psychology or diploma qualifications in one of these fields with at least two years of relevant work experience

Is inspired by the idea of working in a rapidly evolving non-profit organisation with a robust growth vision

Has experience with supporting counselling and engaging young people

Experience facilitating programs managing groups and/or delivering training.

Has a comprehensive understanding of mandatory reporting requirements for working with young people

Has excellent administrative and organisation skills strong written and verbal communication abilities and excellent IT skills including Office365 and cloud-based document sharing (OneDrive or Google Drive)

Has a collaborative inclusive and supportive working style and displays a commitment to transparent open authentic communication

Has the ability to work independently show initiative and work in a team environment

Is warm polite friendly empathetic compassionate and caring

An accommodating style and an enthusiastic can do attitude

Is reliable punctual committed and dedicated

Is trustworthy shows honesty and integrity and leads by example

Demonstrates a high level of respect for privacy and confidentiality

Has experience as a Raise Mentor (ideal)

A willingness to undergo the Raise selection process including appropriate youth safety and national crime checks

OUR VALUES:

At Raise we have six values that express our shared understanding of what we believe how we would like others to see our personality what we aspire to as an organisation and how we aim to behave:

Be Courageous we are imaginative driven progressive confident

Show Heart we are kind passionate sincere empathetic

Give Respect we believe in acceptance equity inclusivity

Practice Integrity we operate with authenticity accountability transparency

Bring Vitality we are positive fun energetic inspiring

Deliver Excellence we are evidence-based responsive consistent experts in our industry

DIVERSITY INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY:

At Raise Foundation were committed to creating safe inclusive and empowering spaces for young people mentors employees and our wider community.

We welcome and value people of all ages genders cultural and linguistic backgrounds people with disability (both seen and unseen) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples people from all social classes and those diverse in gender identity and sexual orientation. We recognise and respect all differences in people and believe that lived experience from marginalised communities brings essential perspectives and diversity of thought. This is not only critical to building a fair and equitable workplace but also strengthens our ability to fulfil our purpose to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of young people by connecting them with trusted and trained mentors across Australia.

Raise is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that encourages flexible work arrangements and is committed to creating an environment where all employees feel respected supported and able to thrive.

Raise is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you have any questions about your application or require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please contact us at

INTERESTED

Please submit your application which should include a cover letter addressing the selection criteria.