Veterans and Families Engagement Coordinator

**Your opportunity**

The **Caboolture Veterans’ and Families’ Hub**is dedicated to welcoming Australian Defence Force Veterans and their families. The Hub will provide integrated support to current and ex-service personnel and families.

This will be achieved by offering a multiservice suite for Veterans, which may include health and mental health services, well-being support, RSL-based advocacy, employment and housing advice, social connection, and access to counselling and support.

**About the role**

We are currently recruiting for a part-time, 15 hours per week, **Veterans and Family Engagement Coordinator.**This is a maximum term contract until mid
- December 2025. Working hours in this position will be Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 9am and 2pm each week, with some flexibility.

In this key position you will actively support the integration of veterans and their families with services within the local community by creating, evaluating, and maintaining partnerships with veterans and community partners such as government services, community service providers, regional health providers, Ex Service Organisations (ESO’s), local businesses, volunteer community and sporting groups.

Operating within a community development framework, you will also be involved in community development and outreach activities. You will participate in events to increase the number of active participants in the Hub’s programs and promote services within the community.

**You’ll know that you’re leaving a positive wake when you**:

- Increase community awareness of challenges among veterans and their families.
- Actively engage with the local providers in the health, community, education, and training sectors to provide responsive, integrated support services and activities for veterans and their families.
- Facilitate community participation and support for the Wellbeing Hub, organise and deliver activities and special events to engage veterans and their families.
- Design and coordinate appropriate events for veterans and their families.
- Create and deliver necessary information to successfully market and publicise events.
- Work in collaboration with other staff to create networks and provide information and advice on available local community support services to Veterans and their families.Ensure accessible information is provided to people, families, and the local community to increase the communities capacity to connect with appropriate health and wellbeing supports at the time they are needed.

**What you’ll bring**

**To succeed in this role, there are some essentials you’ll need**:

- Tertiary qualifications in either social work, community development or related tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated understanding of consumer participation and advocating for and on behalf of veterans.
- Passion for and proven experience in delivering community development initiatives, health promotion, and community-based activities.
- Demonstrated ability to engage with the community, establish and maintain effective relationships with staff, clients, carers and key stakeholders and collaborative partners.
- Demonstrated knowledge of veteran affairs/ services.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate, implement and report on program activity.
- Strong communication (including written) and interpersonal skills.
- Strong organisational skills and proven ability to exercise autonomy and work with competing priorities.Demonstrated understanding of the needs of people from diverse backgrounds including Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and LGBTIQ, communities.

**We’d also love you to have**:
Experience in a marketing or communications role.

**What matters most is that you’ll live and breathe our values, which means**:

- You are humble, human and full of hope.
- You show up and share.
- You ask: Why not? And what’s next?You leave a positive wake.

We believe that through these values, we do our best work - for each other, for clients, and for the communities we work in. And it’s a promise we make to you about the kind of experience you will have working for us.

**And while you support others, we’ll support you with some great benefits including**:

- Salary packaging to increase your take-home pay.
- Work within a small but impactful team who are passionate about making a difference.
- An employee assistance program (EAP) for you and your family, including emotional, psychological, financial counselling and wellbeing services.Fitness Passport membership access to a wide range of gyms, pools, and fitness and leisure centers across Australia, at a discounted rate.

**How to Apply**

**Applications close Friday, 14 February 2025**

Suitable applicants will be contacted prior to the closing date.