Executive Director Quality, Practice and Safeguarding Hybrid
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13 hours ago
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Job Summary
Lead with Purpose. Drive Quality and Safeguarding Excellence.
Berry Street Yooralla is seeking a visionary Executive Director Quality Practice and Safeguarding to shape how we deliver safe high-quality services across a complex and evolving social services system. This is a rare opportunity to join our Executive Leadership Team and influence strategy governance and culture to ensure the safety and human rights of children adults victim-survivors of family violence and people with disability.
About the Role
- Full-time Permanent role.
- Melbourne location on Wurundjeri Country
- Flexible Hybrid Work Options
- Attractive Executive salary super and salary packaging benefits
As Executive Director you will:
- Partner with the CEO and Board to embed quality safeguarding and risk into organisational strategy and transformation programs.
- Chair the Quality Governance Committee and lead system-wide governance for compliance and assurance.
- Build strong relationships with regulators sector advocates and stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement through evidence-based practice research partnerships and organisational learning.
- Champion cultural safety equity and inclusion ensuring lived experience informs decision-making.
- Provide strategic leadership to expert teams fostering collaboration wellbeing and capability development.
About You
Youre a proven executive leader with deep expertise in quality safeguarding and risk across complex service systems. With a strategic mindset you engage confidently at board level and build strong relationships with regulators and stakeholders.
You lead organisational learning and change while championing cultural safety inclusion and human rightscreating fair equitable and safe environments where every improvement and compliance framework reflects the diverse needs of the communities we serve.
You will bring:
- Proven expertise in regulatory compliance and safeguarding standards.
- Deep commitment to cultural safety diversity and inclusive practice.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (postgraduate desirable).
- Comprehensive knowledge of Victorian community services and disability sector standards including best practice and compliance requirements.
Berry Street Yooralla Benefits
- Generous annual leave
- Impact that matters: Shape services that change lives across Victoria.
- Flexible hybrid work options to support work-life balance.
- A values-driven organisation committed to innovation inclusion and cultural safety.
- Competitive remuneration and access to salary packaging benefits.
How to Apply
Please include your resume and cover letter addressing the key role requirements.
For a confidential chat and any queries regarding the position please contact Stephanie Van Nierop on
We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. Youll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact Fiona Herbu Team Leader Talent Acquisition on.
Please Note;the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment including a Working with Children Check and National and International Police check if required and NDIS Worker screening check.
We believe in diversity inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds abilities and identities to apply to our strongly encourage people with disability LGBTQIA people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People to apply.
Berry Street Yooralla is committed to being a child safe child friendly and child empowering everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTQIA. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background ability ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation spirituality or religion.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Quality Assurance
- FDA Regulations
- ISO 9001
- Root cause Analysis
- Biotechnology
- Clinical Trials
- Quality Systems
- Food Processing
- Quality Control
- Quality Management
- cGMP
- HACCP
About Company
We believe that children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful. Berry Street provides programs to more than 35,000 children,…
