The position
World Vision Australia is seeking a Young Mob Facilitator to facilitate our Young Mob program to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in schools in the Hunter Valley region.
Your role will be to help develop confidence and resilience in Aboriginal youth so they can confidently engage with the world and have strong connections within and across their cultures and communities.
Typical facilitation will require considered preparation implementing a set curriculum, adapting content and integrating the incumbent’s personal cultural knowledge, travelling across the Hunter region to facilitate sessions alongside another Young Mob Facilitator, followed by documenting, monitoring data and reflection.
Facilitation of a wide range of activities across the three levels of Young Mob (introductory, intermediate and advanced) and ten themes: identity, culture, strong spirit, yarning and storytelling, Indigenous resilience, social justice, health, goal-setting, community contribution and public speaking.
You will also be required to participate in planning and facilitate extension activities including; excursions, events, camps, exchange visits and road trips.
This is a 12 Month Maximum Term opportunity (30 Hrs per week - Tues to Fri).
Your main duties and responsibilities:
- Project Facilitation - Effective facilitation of Young Mob activities. This will include sharing stories of your own experience, personal and cultural identity. Facilitate a range of activities focused on the Young Mob themes, share cultural values, knowledge and skills.
- Contribute to program monitoring, evaluation, reporting and development - Contribute to the quality monitoring, learning and evaluation about progress towards project outcomes, including collection and review of project data as required.
- Communication- Maintain communication with the Young Mob Facilitators Group, Managing Facilitator, Young Mob Project Manager, schools and organisations and contribute as required to communication materials that enable reporting back to WVA and project supporters. Contribute as required to communication materials that enable reporting back to WVA and project supporters, particularly of positive stories of change.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for someone who is a great team player with excellent interpersonal skills and who can create session plans, facilitate and drive them.
Your skills and experience will include:
- Cultural knowledge relevant to Young Mob themes
- Familiarity with youth life issues in NSW
- Some experience in facilitating, mentoring, training, coaching, supervising or teaching young people
- Some experience in self-reflection
- Some knowledge of own culture and community
- Ability to work with and develop healthy relationships
- Good judgment to adapt facilitation to diverse needs and expectations of young people and changing circumstances
- Ability to be a good role model for young people
- Regularly contributing to monitoring change and gathering stories
- Completion of Year 12 Secondary School
This is an Indigenous-identified position. Applicants must be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander decent.
Previous participants from Young Mob encouraged to apply.
Working for World Vision means you are making the world better
It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward.
The selection process
For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families. World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector.
Who we are
For more than 40 years, World Vision has been partnering with First Nations communities through our Australia First Nations Program. The program is dedicated to helping First Nations communities build on their strengths and achieve their own development goals. Working at World Vision as a First Nations staff means you will be well represented and supported within the team. Through the program’s staff network, you will have a safe space to connect, collaborate and seek advice no matter where you are based.
World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.
For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us
World Vision Australia is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation that is dedicated to transforming the lives of children and communities by tackling the causes of poverty. We are dedicated to increasing opportunities for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in line with our Reconciliation Action Plan
