Program Manager

Raise Foundation

• Be part of the team responsible for delivering best practice youth mentoring programs to over 180 secondary schools across Australia in 2024
• Apply your exceptional team and program leadership skills to a not-for-profit foundation supporting youth mental health
• Competitive salary and benefits available in a flexible, fun and collaborative work environment.

ABOUT RAISE:

At Raise we exist to help young people. We do one thing, and we do it really well - youth mentoring.

Our best-practice, school-based mentoring program is proven to make positive and sustained change. Mentoring empowers young people to be resilient, connected and hopeful for the future. We match trained volunteers with teenagers who would benefit most from an independent, caring adult who is there to listen – and be there just for them.

Our early intervention youth mentoring program will be in 180 high schools across Australia in 2024. This translates to over 2,300 young people matched with a qualified mentor this year alone. In the last 15 years, Raise has reached over 10, 000 young people across Australia. We have trained over 8, 000 mentors.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Please note this role requires that you have qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or Counselling.

Our Program Managers lead a cohesive and effective team of Program Counsellors in the successful delivery of Raise Foundation’s youth mentoring programs within a specified area.

Reporting to the State Manager, this role is a leadership position within the Programs Team. The role helps to drive strong partnerships with current and new schools and coaches a team of professional counsellors / youth social workers.

Other Responsibilities include:

• Establishing and maintaining strong partnerships with schools and community partners in your allocated area, liaising with local stakeholders as required
• Assess potential new schools or community partners for Programs, contact senior staff within those schools or organisations, attend meetings to discuss and confirm partnerships, establish partnership agreements and evaluate partnerships at conclusion of programs for the following year
• Using regional contacts, build relationships to recruit mentors for your area’s programs with support from the Raise marketing team
• Lead, coach and support your Program Counsellor team to ensure high standards and the professional delivery of all programs
• Provide leadership in youth safety
• Attend local Youth Interagency and other relevant community meetings in your area regularly

ABOUT YOU:

• As a Program Manager you will be a dynamic, engaging and passionate leader with qualifications in Social Work, Psychology or Counselling.
• You are a community minded individual with a genuine interest in the wellbeing of young people.
• You will have an outstanding ability to coach, engage and motivate your team of program counsellors having held a prior leadership role
• You will have prior experience in program delivery, program evaluation and or facilitation ideally in the not for profit sector. Prior experience in mental health will also be highly regarded
•  You are proficient in Microsoft Office and CRM platforms (Salesforce ideally)
• You will have or be willing to obtain a Working with Children Check and National Crime check.

Raise Foundation is committed to being a Youth Safe, Youth Friendly organisation and will, for all children and young people who come into contact with our programs:



• Provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services
• Work to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it occurs
• Place the interests of any young person suffering harm, or at risk of harm, above the interests of any other individual or the organisation

Six values that express our shared understanding of what we believe, how we would like others to see our personality, what we aspire to as an organisation, and how we aim to behave:

Be Courageous – we are imaginative, driven, progressive, confident

Show Heart – we are kind, passionate, sincere, empathetic

Give Respect – we believe in acceptance, equity, inclusivity

Apply Integrity – we operate with authenticity, accountability, transparency

Bring Vitality – we are positive, fun, energetic, inspiring

Deliver Excellence – we are evidence-based, responsive, consistent, experts in our industry



We create safe, inclusive and engaging spaces for young people, our mentors, employees and partners. We do this through our commitment to build and foster an equitable, diverse and inclusive environment for all our people. We welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people who are diverse in gender orientation and sexuality.