Team Leader - Mobile Youth Outreach, Short Term Remand Pilot
Step into a role that doesn't just lead a team, it leads a new way of responding to young people in crisis. As Team Leader for our Mobile Youth Outreach, Short Term Remand pilot in Wagga, you'll guide a dynamic, on‐the-ground service that meets children and young people 10‐17 years, where they are, offering safety, stability, and connection to culture and community at the moments that matter most.
This is your chance to shape an innovative model that only our organisation delivers, enabling us to respond faster, intervene earlier, and create better outcomes for children and young people who are at risk of moving into the justice system. We're looking for someone who brings calm leadership, sharp judgement, and deep understanding of youth justice, and culturally and trauma‐aware practice. Someone who can inspire a team to deliver exceptional care in a number of environments – schools, youth justice centre, community ovals.
If you're ready to lead a service that's as agile and courageous as the children and young people it supports, this is the role for you.
A place to make a difference:
In this part-time (22.8 Hrs Mondays to Thursdays, max term until 30 June 2027) role, you'll work as a part of our Mobile Youth Outreach, Short Term Remand Pilot program team in Wagga to help us create lasting change for children everywhere.
Additional travel: You will be expected to travel up to 25% of the time to various locations in Wagga including Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre, schools, community settings, and partner organisations to oversee program delivery, conduct outreach activities, and represent 54 reasons at relevant meetings and forums.
What you will do:
* Lead and develop a dedicated and driven team, providing professional supervision.
* Support the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Mobile Youth Outreach program in Wagga.
* Build strong relationships with Elders, Aboriginal organisations, schools, local community, councils, police, youth justice, health and education staff, and build confidence in the program.
* Oversee the day‐to‐day operations of the program, including service delivery, budgets, administration, risk management and compliance.
A place to feel valued:
Your deep expertise in juvenile justice reform, youth development, and supporting young people who have interacted with the justice system stands out. You're an enthusiastic, committed leader with proven experience delivering high‐quality, child‐and family‐centred services and managing a high‐performing team. Your strong cultural awareness, sensitivity, and excellent communication skills help you build trusted community networks and lasting relationships. You embrace challenges and are always looking to grow and develop.
Required skills and experience:
* Proven leadership skills, the ability to nurture a cohesive, agile, high‐performing team.
* Ability to drive and role‐model child and youth‐centred, family‐focused approach in service provision within a team.
* Experience working with children, young people and families of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
* A genuine passion to support and manage a high‐performing team to meet and exceed objectives and achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.
* Ability to manage competing priorities and respond to complex scenarios.
* Ability to plan and deliver events for children, young people and families in community.
A place to belong:
At 54 reasons, we invest in the development and wellbeing of our people. Our workforce is approximately 600 people strong and proudly diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, culture and beliefs.
It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team.
Benefits:
* Generous award rate salary (Level 6.1 – currently $55.72 per hour) plus super and full salary packaging benefits.
* Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you're able to perform at your optimum.
* Support for workplace wellness, including access to a free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program.
* Opportunity to work on additional projects to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way.
* Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.
* Celebration and support for diversity; a highly inclusive culture reflecting the communities we serve.
Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.
Does this sound like the place for you?
We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.
Save the Children Australia is a child‐safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter‐Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.
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