Youth Development & Planning Officer (St Kilda)

Synopsis: Youth Development & Planning Officer
- **Salary Range Band 6 $95,799- $104,420 plus 11.5% Super**:

- **Full-time Permanent Role**:

- **Located at Bubup Nairm Family Services & other locations throughout the municipality
- flexible working arrangements possible.**

**About the Organisation**

The City of Port Phillip is an inner-city council with around 1000 employees who deliver more than 100 programs and services to our residents, businesses, and visitors. These range from childcare and immunisations, to libraries, management of parks and open space, rubbish collection, road maintenance and more. City of Port Phillip has zero tolerance for child abuse and is a committed Child Safe organisation.

**About the Role**

The key objectives of this role are to:

- Map services and identify gaps, proposing innovative responses through increasing community capacity development, research and advocacy.
- Deliver high quality programs for young people. Implement monitoring and evaluation processes for programs and events. Seek to improve on service delivery and ensure adaptability to address emerging community trends.
- Engage with relevant internal and external stakeholders across the community to develop partnerships and networks to promote Youth Services and to support program development and delivery.

**Duties**:

- Safely work within family and youth friendly approaches to ensure a transparent understanding of their needs, trends and engagement opportunities for children, young people, and families.
- Organise and facilitate The City of Port Phillip’s Youth Advisory Committee meetings.
- Ensure the Youth Advisory Committee and its members function as outlined in the terms of reference.
- Work collaboratively and responsively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the best outcomes.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of youth programs and evaluation processes, including the collection of data, service mapping, reporting, effective communications, and advocacy opportunities.
- Provide young people of Port Phillip with leadership and advocacy opportunities such as the Youth Summit (or similar programs).
- Where needed, provide in generalist case management support and/or brief intervention to young people aged 12-25.

**Skills and Experience**
- A relevant tertiary qualification in youth, social work or community sector. This may include qualifications of an education and/or recreational nature.
- Substantial experience in engaging youth within a community setting, particularly in operating across diverse community settings.
- Experience with client management, intervention and prevention practices desirable.
- Experience with youth engagement and partnership building.
- Experience with youth program evaluation and continuous improvement.

**Culture**

People enjoy working at the City of Port Phillip because we are a welcoming, healthy and inclusive workplace. We offer a vibrant and diverse work environment where our employees can develop both professionally and personally whilst planning and delivering a range of important services and programs to the community.

**Benefits**
- We offer a workplace which accommodates your working style and needs.
- Be supported and empowered by a leadership team that is community focused, with a strong desire for change and a culture that encourages teamwork and innovation.
- Training and development opportunities, study assistance, flexible working conditions, paid parental leave, an active social club, a health and wellbeing program, and a well
- regarded Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**Security Requirements and Professional Obligations**

Prior to a formal letter of offer, preferred applicants will be asked to provide:

- Evidence of mandatory qualifications/registrations/licences,
- Sufficient proof of their right to work in Australia, and
- Sufficient proof of their identity.
- Complete a National Police Check completed via City of Port Phillip’s Provider.
- Evidence of a Working with Children Check (employee type with City of Port Phillip registered as the organisation).

**How to Apply**

All applicants must provide a Cover Letter in response to the key selection criteria located on the last page of the position description. The Cover Letter should be no longer than 2 pages and include each heading in the Key Selection Criteria.

Further information can be obtained by contacting **Daniel Fry

Applications close** 11.59pm Sunday 26 January 2025 Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3qn0s9