Training Lead

Exciting new opportunity to join a dynamic team!Full time position with salary of $95,000 excluding superannuationLocated in MelbourneApplication closing date 28 July 2021, 6pm AESTRole summaryYou will work with the Movement Building team to design and deliver a year-long place-based program for young people aged 15 - 17. The first program will take place in Melbourne’s West, starting in April 2022. Over-time, you will scale the program to multiple locations across Australia - reaching hundreds of young people. You are passionate about pedagogy (the art and science of teaching and learning) and you believe in young people’s power to achieve transformative systems change. You know that we are more powerful when we act together.You centre lived experience and evidence to ensure best-practice in your work with young people. You are collaborative and a skilled facilitator and educator. About the Foundation for Young AustraliansToday’s generation of young people are facing unprecedented and intersecting crises. They also have the skills, insight and ambition to address them. At FYA, our vision is that young people have the power to beat injustice and transform the future. We back them with the trust, resources, skills, and connections to make change.Our work is guided by a commitment to healing injustice and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, young people, people of colour, women, disabled people, people who are LGBTIQA+ communities, and more. We acknowledge our sector (philanthropy and nonprofits) has systematically excluded these communities.What we offer Generous leave condition and flexible work. FYA is committed to a flexible workplace, and offers opportunities for part-time work, 12 weeks paid parental leave, paid cultural and ceremonial leave, and paid leave for your birthday.Attractive remuneration. Our key asset is our team, and we are committed to recruiting and retaining incredible people to work with us. We also offer salary packaging.Extensive commitment to professional development. We believe that investing in our team is essential. We provide healthy professional development budgets for each team member.   Our approach to movement buildingWe are looking for someone who shares our commitment to the following principles which have been informed by Black, Indigenous and disability justice activists: First Nations justice: We build and nurture long-term relationships with First Nations communities. We are led by the vision and values of First Nations peoples. We combine co-creation and self-determination - both sharing the burden and responsibility of decolonisation and anti-racist work while also shifting resource and decision-making power to First Nations communities.More depth than breadth: We prioritise connection and moving at the pace of trust while recognising the importance of achieving critical mass to shift power and systems. We work to build and nurture meaningful relationships and connections with, and between, young people, their communities and the world. Leadership from the most impacted: We prioritise backing young people with lived experience of structural injustice to transform those structures.  Holistic wellbeing: We are proactive and plan for wellbeing and the wellbeing of the people we work with, acknowledging that wellbeing looks different for everyone. We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term. Power with, to and within not power over: We choose power with, power to and power within, not power-over. Power with is shared power that grows out of collaboration and relationships. It is built on respect, mutual support, solidarity and collaborative decision-making. Power to is built on the idea that every person has a unique contribution to make in shaping the world. Our work is to build and unleash that power. Power within is related to a person’s sense of self-worth and self-knowledge. It is what enables power to and power with. Power over is built on force, coercion, domination and control and motivates largely through fear. Intersectionality: Our struggles and solutions are connected. We work across sectors, issues and differences. We work across movements and within them to activate meaningful connection, solidarity and collective power. Recognising wholeness: People have inherent worth and dignity. Each person is full of history and life experience. We recognise there are multiple ways that people contribute to social change.  What you’ll doYou will work with the Movement Building team to design and deliver a year-long place-based program for young people aged 15 - 17. The first program will take place in Melbourne’s West, starting in April 2022. The program, which you will design, will lift the aspirations and expectations of up to 30 young people who have been let down by multiple systems (e.g. education, health, justice, social welfare, media) while giving them the tools, skills, connections, trust, knowledge and support to transform those systems. Programming will include the coordination of retreats, workshops, one-on-one coaching, and a community celebration led by the young people themselves. In collaboration with our Capacity Building Coordinator, you will be responsible for recruiting young people to the program through school assemblies and community outreach. The curriculum will embrace: Project-based learning - you will facilitate opportunities for participants to gain knowledge and skills by working together on projects. Critical pedagogy - you embrace teaching and training methods that challenge learners to examine power, awakening political consciousness through reflection and action. Trauma-informed teaching strategies - you will ensure a supportive learning environment where participants feel safe, comfortable, take risks and even heal. Whole-of-community engagement - you will weave a web of support around each of the young people in our programs by engaging their communities and families in the program.Strengths-based approach - you will work collaboratively with young people to help them build on their existing strengths. You will also work with our Director, Strategy & Evaluation to assess, monitor and evaluate the program and its impact. If the program is a success, we will expand it to other locations across Australia through a "train-the-trainers" model. Programs will be run concurrently by a local coach that lives in, and has deep investment and connection to, the area that each program is based. You would be responsible for managing and training those coaches.  Who we’re looking forExperience managing projects including strategy design, project planning and delivery, budget tracking, stakeholder relationship management and impact evaluationExperience leading training, movement or capacity building for young people and/or social changemakers including curriculum design, facilitation and 1:1 mentoringLived expertise and relationships in First Nations justice, racial justice or disability justice movementsExperience managing people including coaching, motivating and supporting a diverse range of people while caring for them and their wellbeingStrong proficiency with key workplace tools such as Google apps, Slack etc Additional requirementsA Working with Children Check is a mandatory requirement of this position - we’ll help you with this if you are successful. Applicants for this role must have a valid, legal right to work in Australia.Click Apply Now or head to the ‘work with us’ section of our website and follow the application process.Please include a detailed resume (no more than 3 pages). As part of your application, we’d love to hear:A description of yourself, what excites you about this role and working for FYAAn explanation of how your experience relates to what we’re looking forWe are open to receiving responses in writing (e.g. poetry or essay), video or audio. For video or audio applications please send clips to people@fya.org.auDeadline: 6pm AEST, Wednesday 28 July 2021For more information or a confidential discussion about the role contact:Laura O’Connell RapiraExecutive Director, Movement Building laura.oc.rapira@fya.org.au  For more information about the recruitment process:Azianni MustapaPeople and Culture Coordinatorpeople@fya.org.auTraining Lead AUD Melbourne