Team Leader Youth

**Hours per week**: 38

**Remuneration**: Band 6 salary from $104,133.36 per annum plus superannuation and a fortnightly RDO

**Location**: Manor Lakes based. This role may be required to work across multiple locations throughout the Wyndham Municipality

**About the role**

As the **Team Leader Youth**, you’ll lead and coordinate a passionate team of youth workers across multiple sites in Wyndham. Your day-to-day will involve rostering staff, managing budgets, and supporting professional development, all while maintaining a strong, positive team culture through hands-on coaching and mentoring.

You’ll be actively involved in delivering services for young people by building strong working relationships with local partners and collaborate across Council departments to ensure designed programs and services are aligned, responsive and effective, to reflect the needs, strengths, and voices of young people.

You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment, able to pivot quickly between tasks and competing demands. With a relevant tertiary qualification and a track record in youth work, program innovation, and team leadership, you’ll bring a practical understanding of budgets, performance monitoring, and evaluation.

In this role, you’ll be expected to challenge conventional thinking and push for better outcomes for young people. Leading with experience and confidence, you’ll offer clear direction while encouraging creativity and collaboration within your team. With experience managing budget-constraints, you’ll find creative solutions to the way resources are used; finding innovative, sustainable ways to deliver high-quality services that make a difference for young people in Wyndham.

This is a full time, fixed term position until 31 July 2026 and will be required to work after hours and on occasional weekends across multiple locations throughout the Wyndham Municipality.

**What your day will look like**
- Leading and coordinating the delivery of youth services across Wyndham, ensuring alignment with Council values, policies, and strategic goals.
- Actively supervising and mentoring a team of youth workers, providing guidance, support, and professional development to maintain high-quality service delivery.
- Building and nurturing strong relationships with local stakeholders, partners, and internal teams to enhance service reach and impact.
- Planning and delivering engaging programs, events, and activities that respond to the needs and interests of young people and their families.
- Driving innovation in program design by working collaboratively with the team to co-design flexible, place-based services that are culturally safe, youth-led, and evidence-informed.
- Finding creative solutions to deliver impactful outcomes within tight budget constraints prioritising innovative resource use without compromising service quality.
- Challenging conventional thinking to continuously improve service delivery, team performance, and outcomes for young people.
- Monitoring and evaluating programs to ensure they are effective, inclusive, and aligned with best practices in youth participation and strengths-based approaches.

**What you will bring**
- Degree qualification in Youth Work, Community Development, Social Work or a related discipline and relevant experience in the generalist Youth Sector or lesser formal qualification and substantial relevant experience in the Youth Sector as a practitioner
- Substantial experience working directly and collaboratively with young people, volunteers, and community organisations in the delivery of programs for young people.
- Demonstrated experience in supervising and leading a team in a complex environment.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining strategic partnerships and stakeholder relationships.
- Exceptional organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
- Current Employee Working with Children Check

If you progress past the interview stage, you may be required to complete pre-employment screening, which may include police checks, a medical, qualification verification, and an Australian work rights check.

**Why join Wyndham**

We are one of Australia’s fastest growing and most diverse cities.

By 2040, we will have more than 500,000 residents and our people are hard at work designing the precincts, building the infrastructure, developing the policies and delivering the programs that will ensure the City is prepared.

Look at our job opportunities and you may be surprised at what you discover: a future-focused culture, a sense of purpose and possibility, and real opportunities to strengthen our diverse community. It all adds up to make Wyndham City a great place to belong.

Our people are our most valued asset. We are focused on building a culture that empowers every person to do their best work. Flexibility is built right into our DNA and we are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace that celebrates