Job description
- Become part of our family and make a difference to young Australians through supporting their education
- Permanent Full-Time Position
- Long Jetty, NSW
We are seeking an experienced Family Partnerships Coordinator to join our family. Reporting to the Team Leader, Learning for Life and working alongside dedicated, energised, and passionate team members, this role will support families to identify barriers to education and utilising external referrals, links to programs, brokering community relationships and access to information as ways to overcome these barriers.
About our role
You will be responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining purposeful education focused relationships with students and families participating in the Learning for Life program
- Working with a prioritised group of students and families on their identified goals and uses a collaborative process to develop actions related to these goals
- Working with partner schools to build and maintain relationships to support the educational outcomes of Learning for Life students
- Identifying and working with relevant community organisations as a connection for referrals
About you
As well as passion for community, you will bring the following:
- Have or willing to obtain an employee Working With Children’s Check
- High level interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team and independently
- Strong relationship building skills with families, schools and community agencies
- Ability to enter and retrieve data and to take a data informed approach to practice
- Flexibility to respond to competing demands
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills (including computer literacy, data entry and time management)
- Flexibility to respond to competing demands
About our culture
The Smith Family has employees at the centre of its values and operations. We nurture a supportive and inclusive culture that enables people to achieve personal and professional goals, through collaboration and innovation. With a proven work-life balance, wellbeing and health are our top priorities. Enjoy many other benefits, such as tax concessions and flexible working arrangements.
If you are passionate about what you do, committed to make a difference and this sounds like your next role, please click apply, we’d love to hear from you.
You may view the position description attached.
Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate must be prepared to undertake a National Police Check and a Working with Children’s Check. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to principles of cultural diversity. Applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged.