Youth Worker/group Facilitator

Posted: 05/03/2025

Closing Date: 21/03/2025

Job Type: Contract

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**:
We are looking for an experienced youth worker with group facilitation skills to guide and inform design, implementation, delivery and evaluation of programs that aim to reduce gendered violence.

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

**About the program**:
This role will be focused on the implementation of an early intervention project in non-mainstream school and community settings, with boys and young men at risk of using violence.

The project aims to:

- Trial models across several pilot sites that engage at-risk boys and young men aged 12-25 years, from diverse communities, to challenge harmful gender norms, promote more flexible ideas about what it means to be a man, address violence-supportive attitudes and behaviours and build skills (e.g. self-regulation; challenging sexist behaviour as a bystander) that can contribute to reducing violence.
- Build the capacity of key workforces to work with boys and young men to prevent violence including (but not limited to) by promoting positive conversations about gender, challenging rigid masculine stereotypes and engaging as a bystander.
- Work in collaboration with an independent evaluator to build the evidence base to understand the extent to which the program is likely to improve outcomes for participants.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**About you**:

- Demonstrated experience in building strong, trusting, trauma informed relationships with young people who are disadvantaged and have a range of complex needs.
- Experience facilitating group programs and delivering one to one support to young people.
- Understanding of the current issues which impact young people aged 12-16, including trends, social influences, online gaming and gambling, harmful ideas about masculinity, and pornography use.
- Capacity to understand and challenge violence supportive attitudes and implement strengths-based strategies that will help young people identify and change harmful attitudes and behaviours, and problem solve without using violence.
- Demonstrated capacity to work as a productive and positive member of a multi-disciplinary team

**How to apply**:

- Upload your resume and cover letter incorporating your responses to the Key Selection Criteria from the Position Description.
- For further information please contact Brett Phillips, Manager - Early Intervention and Strategic Projects on 0439 734 053

**Applications close at 5.00pm on Friday 21st March 2025**

Jesuit Social Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, sexuality, disability or religious affiliation.

Jesuit Social Services is a Child Safe organisation and is committed to protecting children and young people from harm. We require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening process prior to appointment.