Executive Director Child, Youth and Family NSW

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Austria
EUR 100 000 - 125 000
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Executive Director Child, Youth and Family NSW

About us

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Executive – Child Youth and Family, the Executive Director will lead a large team of passionate and committed child, youth and family service professionals across metro, regional and remote NSW. You will encourage and model collaboration amongst teams and regions to deliver high quality services that meet the safety, wellbeing and permanency goals of children and young people ensuring service integrity and consistency.

You will lead LWB’s strategic agenda in NSW including establishing partnerships, identifying new opportunities, leading on growth and supporting LWB’s partnership aspirations with SNAICC to see all Aboriginal children supported by Aboriginal Community Controlled organisations within ten years. You will partner with a range of internal and external stakeholders to implement organisational programs and initiatives, responding to changes in the external environment and adapting internally to meet LWB’s Purpose Values and strategic objectives.

This is a permanent full-time position with flexibility to work from Sydney or Newcastle and/or home. There will be a degree of state-based and interstate travel required. You will also work collaboratively with your peers across the country, and the Child Youth and Family Senior Leadership Team to ensure we are delivering outcomes for children and young people across the country.

To succeed in this senior leadership role, you will bring:

  1. People Leadership: Proven track record as a senior leader with strategic and operational experience at scale in a complex, evolving environment with multi-disciplinary teams in the community services sector. The ability to inspire and lead a large team of individuals across a geographically dispersed area.
  2. Relationship Building: Show your experience building strong, enduring relationships at a senior level both internally and externally (including with government agencies, accrediting bodies and NGOs) and your ability to influence to ensure the right outcomes.
  3. Communication Skills: Outstanding interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and strong computer and financial literacy.
  4. Qualifications: Have tertiary level qualifications in social work, psychology or related clinical field, or equivalent business management field.
  5. Impact: Join one of Australia’s largest and leading social-purpose organisations.
  6. Leadership: A key leadership role in NSW with the opportunity to have impact on a significant number of children, young people and families.
  7. Benefits: Excellent salary packaging benefits and vehicle allowance.

How to apply

For a confidential discussion, please call Alison Myatt or Claire Crawford on 02 9233 1200.

Closing date: Monday 17 March 2025 at 11.59pm AEDT

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

Every day, Life Without Barriers offers support and care to children. We want every one of those children to feel as safe and respected as they should. We Put Children First is our commitment to the safety and wellbeing of children. All staff and carers are required to be a part of this commitment, to recognise the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behaviours and understand the importance of speaking up about child safety concerns.

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