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• A part-time or full-time (0.8-1.0 EFT), 24-month fixed term position
• Based in our Brunswick office, with free onsite parking and close to PT
• Salary of $105,340 (pro-rata if part-time) + Super + NFP Salary Packaging

Rebuilding Shattered Lives – Supporting people of refugee background to recover from torture and other traumatic events

Your Impact
The LGBTQIA+ Project is situated in Foundation House’s Community and Sector Capacity Building (CSCB) program area. CSCB is an innovative program area designed to facilitate and support the development, growth, and empowerment of communities of refugee backgrounds to recover from pre-arrival trauma and resettle positively. CSCB teams work to strengthen these communities across Victoria, helping them to thrive.

The LGBTQIA+ Project is a Foundation House initiative designed to support LGBTQIA+ refugees, asylum seekers and forcibly displaced people, to recover from pre-arrival trauma, live as their true selves, resettle positively, and to build strong communities together to support each other to thrive.

The project operates on multiple levels, integrating key components aimed at addressing the unique needs of LGBTQIA+ individuals from forcibly displaced backgrounds, with a focus on activities that promote strength, autonomy and resilience, through capacity building and support mechanisms. 

The Role
The Community Capacity Building Practitioner (LGBTQIA+) is responsible for delivering place-based community capacity building initiatives for LGBTQIA+ forcibly displaced people as directed by the LGBTQIA+ Project Officer.
  
The role has a strong focus on facilitating community group programs that support individual affirmation, social connection, and relational based trauma recovery for LGBTQIA+ community members. These groups will be delivered in partnership with LGBTQIA+ cultural and community groups and other contracted lived experience practitioners, and promote strength and autonomy, as well as the development of peer support networks.

Key responsibilities include:

• Facilitate social groups in our three key regions that promote social connection between LGBTQIA+ forcibly displaced people to reduce social isolation and support the development of peer support networks.
• Establish and co-deliver psychosocial and therapeutic groups in partnership with Counsellor Advocates, other organisations, and other contracted lived experience workers.
• Support the facilitation of the LGBTQIA+ Program Lived Experience Steering Committee to ensure the program meets the needs and experiences of LGBTQIA+ forcibly displaced people.
• Deliver co-design sessions with the LGBTQIA+ Program Lived Experience Steering Committee to develop resources in relation to working with LGBTQIA+ forcibly displaced people.
• Build new and strengthen established local partnerships with community associations, leaders, community members and key stakeholders, to support community capacity building initiatives and outcomes.
• Network with services engaging with LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people in Victoria and identify potential partnerships.
• Assist the LGBTQIA+ Project Officer to facilitate peer support spaces for LGBTQIA+ lived experience workers from across multiple sectors.

Available is a part-time or full-time (0.8-1.0 EFT), 24-month fixed term contract position. While primarily based in the Brunswick office, the role will require frequent travel to and work from our offices in North, West and Southeast Melbourne.

What you’ll need to successfully apply
To be successful, you will need to positively respond to the below selection criteria:

• Professional, volunteer or personal experience of supporting LGBTQIA+ forcibly displaced people.
• Demonstrated understanding of the needs, issues and experiences of forcibly displaced LGBTQIA+ people.
• Demonstrated understanding of the effects of complex trauma on individuals, families and communities, particularly in an Australian settlement context and especially for LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people.
• Confidence and experience in group facilitation and community engagement principles.
• Expertise in cross-cultural communication, practice and development.
• A current, valid Victoria drivers licence.
• Multi-lingual ability and lived experience of being LGBTQIA+ and from a forcibly displaced background is desirable

In return
You’ll be rewarded with:

• an attractive remuneration package of $105,340 (pro rata if part-time) plus superannuation and annual leave loading
• salary packaging benefits of up to $18,550 and novated car leasing options
• a role with true purpose to make a difference in people’s lives
• a welcoming, highly diverse and supportive team environment
• access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members.

About Foundation House
We are:

• a state-wide agency offering services throughout Victoria. We currently have approximately 250 staff across our six offices in Brunswick, Dallas, Dandenong, Ringwood, Sunshine and Werribee, and we also provide services in partnership with other agencies in regional and rural Victoria
• values driven and committed to improving the life outcomes refugee background survivors
• an inclusive and equal opportunity employer
• a Child Safe organisation committed to promoting and protecting the interests and safety of children. We also actively play a part in combating family violence, as reflected in our organisational policies, protocols and staff development.

How to apply
Please upload your CV and a short cover letter (around one to two pages). In the cover letter, please share why you are interested in this role and how your skills and experience relate to the responsibilities and requirements described above.

Refer to the position description below for detailed information about the role and more information about our hiring process.

Position Description: https://tinyurl.com/3wyuk68w
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Applications are due to close 10th of April 2026. Please note, applications may be considered as they are received, and job ads may close early.

For enquiries, please contact Greg Gow – General Manager, Community & Sector Capacity Building via gowg@foundationhouse.org.au or by phone on 0418 340 090.

Appointment to the position is subject to a satisfactory National Police Check, Working with Children Check and Reference Check process. If you have lived for a continuous period of 12 months or more in another country within the last 10 years, an International Police Check from that country will also be required.

The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate proof of the Right to Work in Australia.

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