General Manager

Posted: 05/08/2025

Closing Date: 19/08/2025

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Richmond

Job Category: Community Services and Development

**About the organisation**:
**Jesuit Social Services is a social change organisation working to build a just society where all people can live to their full potential.** We reflect on the critical factors shaping our contemporary world; the social, political and economic contexts, and we adapt our practice to work with those most in need.**:
Since 1977, Jesuit Social Services has provided services to some of the most disadvantaged in our community.

We place a high priority on advocacy and are a leader in policy development and research.

**About the role**:
The General Manager - Child Sexual Abuse Prevention will provide leadership to Jesuit Social Services’ child sexual abuse prevention efforts, with a focus on the development of the offender prevention service building on our Stop It Now Australia service. In addition will oversee the development of an initiative focused on trialling warning messages, our youth-focused program to prevent harmful sexual behaviours, a range of research as well as advocacy efforts and other child sexual abuse prevention programs develops as required.

The General Manager will work with the Executive Director, Community and Systems Impact, The Men’s Project and other staff to provide operational leadership, oversight and support on a range of cross-directorate functions, including strategy and planning, business development, research and evaluation, finance and budget management, recruitment and on-boarding, communications and marketing, and partnership development as it related to the prevention of child sexual abuse.

This role will also represent Jesuit Social Services in practice, at key networks and forums, building partnerships with a range or organisations and stakeholders, and advocating to support program and organisational priorities of supporting men and boys to live respectful, accountable and fulfilling lives free from violence and other harmful behaviours, keeping children safe from sexual abuse and building a just society.

Competitive remuneration, plus salary packaging benefit, is offered together with ongoing professional and career development as well as opportunities for personal growth.

**What Jesuit Social Services can offer you**:

- An organisation that lives its values, through its day to day work
- A welcoming and supportive relational environment
- A comprehensive Induction and Orientation program
- Ongoing training and development related to your role
- Employee assistance program
- A competitive salary plus salary packaging benefits
- Generous leave

**About the program**:
**Offender Prevention Service/Stop It Now**

Stop It Now is a child sexual abuse prevention program which works with individuals concerned about their own or someone else’s sexual thoughts or behaviours towards children. It was first established by a victim-survivor of child sexual abuse in the U.S 30 years ago, and we have been delivering the service here in Australia for over two years. We are also developing a larger scale Offender Prevention Service based on the Stop It Now Pilot program.

The program’s key feature is an anonymous phone helpline for people who are worried about their own sexual thoughts and behaviours in relation to children, as well as professionals and family members who are concerned about the behaviour of others. The service also includes a website with advice, self-help materials and guidance to raise awareness around child abuse. Stop it Now/Offender Prevention Service is dedicated to reducing or eliminating the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and seeks to achieve this by engaging with adults who may go on to harm children, and other protective adults. While the service can be accessed anonymously, all mandatory reporting guidelines are complied with.

**Trialing warning messages to prevent child sexual abuse**

In collaboration with Jesuit Social Services and University of Tasmania, we are seeking to disrupt child sexual abuse materials and other forms of online child sexual exploitation by working with technology companies to integrate deterrence messaging which deter offending and facilitate help-seeking. Through Government advocacy, partnerships, public awareness, and workforce development, we are committed to shifting deterrence messages to core practice, fostering a safer digital environment and driving sustained, effective action against online child sexual abuse and exploitation.

Child-on-child harmful sexual behaviour is the fastest growing form of sexual abuse in Australia, with up to 50% of child sexual abuse happening at the hands of another child. WASAPP aims to provide a service, similar to Stop It Now, focused on reducing harmful sexual behaviour displayed by children and young people, as well as providing valuable information on normal sexual behaviour.

**The Men’s Proje