Innovation And Impact Manager

Karakan is a long standing non-for-profit community organisation that specialises in supporting people who experience mental health needs, including those who may have a disability. We believe that people with mental health needs can live a meaningful and fulfilling life and that recovery is possible.

Our leadership and approach to advocacy, service and support is continually guided by the belief "YOU CAN. WE CAN.” This speaks to the strength and importance of each individual as well as the power of the collective as we work together to build an inclusive community.

We are a leading and well-established provider of psychosocial services with a long and rich history of working with people whose lives have been impacted by mental health challenges. We strive to make a positive impact in lives of people we support as we promote and support inclusion, connection and building resilience in individual lives through our recovery-oriented and trauma informed services. 

The Innovation and Impact Manager is a key member of the leadership team that will play an integral role and provide expertise that will help grow, shape and evolve the organisation’s strategic capability, advocacy, practice and outcomes.

This role will drive the achievement of Karakan’s vision, strategic objectives and our commitment to be a leading and trusted voice and provider of psychosocial services. You will do this by leading the design, growth and evaluation of best-practice recovery-oriented services that most effectively support people with a lived experience of mental health needs to achieve their hopes and goals.

 This role is highly strategic in nature. You will be a leader responsible for overseeing and driving impact with the aim to optimise value-creation for clients, community and funders. If you are excited by the prospect to advocate, innovate, create new social impact and help drive and evolve Karakan’s commitment to helping people with mental health needs build resilience and independence in their lives this role is for you.

 You will have extensive expertise and proven success in the following areas:-

• Leading design and development of contemporary practice frameworks and psychosocial programs/services
• Working with community, government and peak body stakeholders to support advocacy and strategic development opportunities 
• Research, collating and leveraging contemporary evidence and data to support strategic proposals, reports and advocacy statements
• Mental Health community, non clinical support services
• Relevant tertiary qualification 

Key Roles and Responsibilities of this position will be:-

• Drive strategic projects as aligned to Karakan’s strategic plan
• Promote and drive stakeholder engagement with community, sector and government to support strategic development and advocacy opportunities
• Identify and shape opportunities to provide mental health services in the changing sector environment 
• Research, interpret and present data and information to inform service innovations and design, improvement, impact reporting and achievement of strategic objectives
• Implementation of service outcome frameworks and monitoring and evaluation plans

If this position interests you please apply and showcase your suitability for the role by addressing the points outlined above in the "expertise and proven success" criteria, via a cover letter and resume.

Thank you for your interest in joining the Karakan team. Applications for this position will be reviewed as they are received. If you would like a copy of the position description, please reach out to ***********@karakan.com.au