Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence is seeking a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to champion migrant and refugee women experiencing family violence, through strategic and ethical leadership, acumen in policy and advocacy and a vision informed by the values of equity and justice.

Status:	Permanent
No. of Vacancy:	1
Hours:	Full time
Location:	East Melbourne/Hybrid

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION

inTouch is at the forefront of providing integrated and culturally responsive services to women from migrant and refugee communities experiencing family violence. For over 40 years, we’ve championed the cause of our clients, helping more than 30,000 women, children and families to thrive despite the challenges they’ve faced. Our approach is unique and effective, thanks to our in Language, inCulture delivery model and our team’s profound and personal understanding of cultural sensitivities and the migration journey.

inTouch is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to being an organisation that embraces a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion within our workforce and approach to service delivery. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic communities, people of all ages and LGBTIQ people.

ABOUT THE ROLE

A trusted and inclusive leader, you draw on experience and knowledge to drive structural and systemic change to address the problem of family violence in our communities. You have the capability and understanding to lead a highly culturally diverse workforce, providing culturally responsive services through early intervention, crisis support and recovery.

You will lead the implementation of inTouch’s new strategic plan to extend our reach and impact in communities. As a respected leader, you demonstrate outstanding stakeholder engagement skills and an ability to work with a wide range of partners to facilitate critical dialogue and sector transformation. Essential to your success will be your strategic leadership, financial management and a track record of achieving significant outcomes for communities. Your experience includes effective engagement with boards and practice excellence in organisational governance and risk management.

Benefits and Culture

• Values-driven organisation with a 42-year track record of impact
• Passionate, culturally diverse team providing life changing support to migrant and refugee women experiencing family violence
• Competitive salary with generous packaging
• Embedded culture of equity, diversity, and culturally safe practice

ABOUT THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT

• Respect and centre the voices of migrant and refugee women experiencing family violence in building an effective advocacy platform.
• Work in partnership with the board in pursuing agreed strategic objectives
• Champion an environment where all staff are empowered to engage critically with leading practice and innovative client services, capacity building and advocacy programs.
• Embed cultural humility and cultural safety as key organisational principles underpinning a service delivery culture that is client centred, responsive, impactful, and innovative.
• Represent inTouch confidently, knowledgeably and energetically to stakeholders including government and other funding partners, peers in the Family Violence services sector, the media and the broader community.
• Increase reach and impact by ensuring flourishing partnerships, encouraging investment that builds on our core strengths and capabilities and enabling adaptive practices that make the most of emerging opportunities.
• Create high quality corporate support infrastructure to enable robust reflexive practice, meet existing compliance, reporting and risk management requirements and ensure accountability across all aspects of our work.

HOW TO APPLY

All inquiries about the position should be directed to inTouch Interim Chair, Professor Marie Segrave at chair@intouch.org.au.

Please submit a complete current resume outlining previous roles, responsibilities and achievements and a brief cover letter addressing selection criteria to chair@intouch.org.au by 5pm, Monday 4 August.

inTouch values diversity and inclusion and actively encourages applications from people of all cultural backgrounds, faiths, abilities and sexual orientations.

In accordance with our Equal Opportunity Exemption (H143/2018), this position is open to applicants who identify as female only.

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory background checks including a National Police Check (including an international police check if resided continuously in an overseas country for 12 months or more in the last ten years), Working with Children Check, Reference checks, proof of eligibility to work in Australia and qualification checks.