Regional Employment Manager

Come and work for a values based, national not for profit organisation, committed to transforming people’s lives through Employment. Workskil Australia is experiencing a period of significant growth and as a result, has an exciting and rare Senior Management role available in Inner Metropolitan Melbourne region, VIC.

**About the Role**

We are looking for a leader who listens, manages to strengths, is inclusive in their approach, and leads from the front to build strong teams.

You will be responsible for leading sites across the region to ensure sites continue to meet their high level service delivery and compliance across the Employment Services Workforce Australia contract.

Through your strengths-based leadership style, you will collaboratively drive initiatives and instil a culture of confidence, positivity and enthusiasm into your region to ensure high performance and compliance requirements are consistently achieved.

**This role is being offered on a full time and ongoing basis and will work across our Inner Metropolitan region. Base site Prahran.**

**About You**

To be successful in the role you will be able to:

- Demonstrate a minimum 5 years of experience in Employment Services management;
- Demonstrate experience in leading mentoring and coaching a geographically dispersed team to achieve high levels of work performance and compliance;
- Prove your ability to lead and develop a customer centric team with a focus on strong and effective communication, leadership and development;
- Prove your ability to establish strategic partnerships and achieve common desired outcomes with relevant stakeholders, organisations and employers;
- Demonstrate your ability to think strategically and develop and implement operational plans;
- Demonstrate exceptional knowledge of the local labour market;
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of working to budgets and understanding of performance reports;
- Ensure administration requirements and reports are accurate and up to date and provide reports and other information to management as required;
- Demonstrate your ability to work with culturally or linguistically diverse people, Indigenous customers, ex-offenders, youth and other disadvantaged groups.

You will also be required to:

- Hold a current driver’s licence;
- Have a minimum Certificate IV in Employment Services or Career Development; and
- Intermediate administration skills including a minimum typing speed of 30 wpm.

As a key member of the Senior Management team you will participate in operational & organisational planning; and the development & implementation of strategies and initiatives.

**About Us**

Workskil Australia is a national not-for-profit and charitable organisation, with almost 40 proud years of supporting Australians to achieve sustained economic and social self-reliance. We do this by providing a range of employment, work experience, disability, youth, Indigenous and community services across New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.

We promote a positive team culture where high performance can thrive. We value excellent customer service, integrity and honesty in our employees. We look for employees who have a genuine passion for working with those in need, are results-focused and can contribute to a strong team. In return for your truly valued contribution we will support your ongoing career development and offer a friendly, supportive & innovative environment for you to thrive.

We work hard every day to:

- Work with our Customers to secure great long-term job opportunities.
- Meet the labour needs of business and industry through quality recruitment services at no cost.
- Assist businesses with diversifying their workforce.
- Provide specialist employment and community services to people seeking work, including people with mental illness, injury or disability and Indigenous Australians.
- Deliver work experience projects to the community.

Our values remain at the heart of everything we do and we strive to conduct our business with the highest degree of care, integrity, respect, honesty and service. We believe that the care, respect and high level of service we give to all of our customers is our key point of difference.

**Remuneration**

A competitive salary will be negotiated commensurate with skills and experience. As Workskil Australia is a public benevolent institution, we can also offer a portion of the salary through tax effective salary packaging.

**About your Application**

Workskil Australia is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we welcome applicants who identify as Indigenous, are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or have disability. We deliver a range of employment and community services to children, young people and their families and are committed to creating a safe environment for children and young people in the delivery of these services.