Address Posted: 19/03/2024
Closing Date: 09/04/2024
Job Type: Temporary
Location: Narre Warren
Job Category: Community Services and Development,Voluntary, Charity & Social Work
Why should you join Windermere?
Windermere is an independent community service organisation with a statewide focus to help those who need it most.
Our support comes in many forms across varying locations; we work together to find the best solutions for the varied and complex issues faced by children, families and individuals in our community.
With a focus on intervention, prevention, education and recovery, we aim to get in early to make a difference in the areas of:
1. Family Wellbeing to create positive behavioural changes, respond to violence and/or neglect to enable people of all abilities to actively participate in their community
2. Development & Early Childhood Education including support to individuals and children with disability & developmental delays and a range of childcare services
3. Assistance and support for victims of natural disasters, trauma, assault and/or violent crime
4. Community service responses aimed to meet emerging need.
Our services are funded through government contracts and fee for service business areas.
We believe that everyone is someone in our community – this is reflected in our approach with those we work with everyday.
For further information about Windermere visit www.windermere.org.au.
Job Description
The Role
We are seeking a volunteer Committee Member to enhance our Service, Enterprise & Risk Advisory Committee (SERC).
If you would like a copy of the the SERC Terms of Reference, please email tania.davis@windermere.org.au.
To hear about our SERC, its members and their responsibilities or to discuss the requirements of this role please contact our CEO, Dr Lynette Buoy 0452214860.
Desired Skills and Experience
We are seeking people with knowledge of the community services sector including:
expertise in the areas of practice governance
complex service provision
lived experience and consultation processes
a contemporary understanding of consumer experience engagement and strategy development
accreditation and regulatory application
diversity & inclusion
creating and sustaining flexible and remote working conditions
If this sounds like you, please submit your brief Expression of Interest, outlining your suitability to this role to tania.davis@windermere.org.au
Windermere is committed to equity & equality for consumers and employees, by building diverse and inclusive services and work environments, where all peoples from Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander, CALD, LGBTIQ+ Communities and those living with disability will know and feel accepted, affirmed, safe and celebrated. Windermere is delivering this through the continued development and implementation of our Welcoming and Inclusion Strategy 2021 to 2024.
