State Lead SA

Raise Foundation

• Use your exceptional leadership and community engagement experience for good
• Be part of a dynamic fast-paced organisation delivering best-practice youth mentoring to over 2000 at-risk young people across Australia
• Casual approximately 20 hours per week Salary packaging available
• Adelaide SA

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:

The State Lead is responsible for leading the effective delivery of Raises youth mentoring programs within their allocated state or region. The role combines people leadership program oversight and community engagement to ensure programs are delivered safely consistently and to a high standard in line with Raises Practice Calendar and Youth Safety Framework.

Reporting to the Programs Director the State Lead works closely with the Head of Delivery and Quality Assurance to ensure fidelity continuous improvement and operational excellence across their accountabilities. The State Lead builds strong relationships with community partners and supports Program Counsellors to strengthen school relationships and deliver excellent programs that achieve Raises impact goals.

Reporting to the Programs Director the State Lead works closely with the Head of Delivery and Quality Assurance to ensure fidelity continuous improvement and operational excellence across their accountabilities. The State Lead builds strong relationships with community partners and supports Program Counsellors to strengthen school relationships and deliver excellent programs that achieve Raises impact goals.

Key responsibilities include:

• Program Delivery and Fidelity
• People Leadership and Development
• Partnership and Community Engagement
• Operational Excellence and Reporting
• Compliance and Youth Safety

A full list of responsibilities is available in the Position Description

ABOUT YOU:

You are a highly experienced and relational people leader with a passion for purpose-driven work. You bring:

• Relevant degree qualifications in psychology counselling youth work or social work plus minimum 2 years experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead program delivery teams in youth community or education settings.
• Strong coaching supervision and performance management skills.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills including report writing and stakeholder liaison.
• Outstanding interpersonal relationship-building and people management skills.
• Sound understanding of child protection youth safety and mandatory reporting requirements.
• Proficiency in Salesforce or similar CRMs.
• Competency in Microsoft Office Suite and cloud-based collaboration tools.
• Completion of Raise selection process including Youth Safety Checks
• Must hold a current Working with Children (Employee) Check and National Crime Check.
• Completion and regular updates of Raise Mentor Training Course.
• Experience as a Raise Mentor (ideal but not essential).
• Experience as a Raise Program Counsellor (preferred).
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (preferred)

Most importantly you are inspired by Raises mission and thrive in a fast-paced collaborative environment where your work directly impacts young peoples lives.

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.