Lead the change. Shape the culture. Make it real.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care is looking for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander leader who is ready to step into a genuine leadership position - one with the scope, the seniority, and the organisational backing to drive meaningful, lasting cultural change.
This is an identified position. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply and must meet the identity requirement for this role.
As Executive Manager Cultural Safety, Practice and Partnerships, you will be Parkerville's cultural practice authority for Community Services. You will sit on the Community Services Executive Team, and your influence will be felt across every service, every team, and every decision we make.
About the Role
This is an executive position - real seniority, real accountability, real scope to shape how you lead it.
You will lead Parkerville's Reconciliation Action Plan, Aboriginal Engagement Framework, and anti-racist organisational strategy. You will build and sustain authentic partnerships with Aboriginal communities and ACCOs as well as embed cultural safety into service design, workforce practice, and the day-to-day reality of how we show up for Aboriginal children, young people, and families.
You will also be a co-leader in our place-based service delivery model - working alongside Executive Managers in the North and South as an equal partner.
The role is based primarily across our Midland and Armadale sites, with outreach across our metropolitan service footprint.
This role is 0.8 FTE (four days per week).
What You'll Bring
About Parkerville
We exist to support children, young people, and their families to address the impacts of trauma and build the skills and capacity to become the best versions of themselves.
We are a growing organisation, and we aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve - because it has to. We genuinely believe that a team who brings different lived experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives delivers better outcomes for children and
families.
Our culture is one where people support each other, challenge each other, and care deeply about the work. If you want to be part of a leadership team that is genuinely invested - in the mission and in one another - this, is it.
What We Offer
Ready to Apply?
If this role speaks to you, we want to hear from you. This advert will close at 9AM on Tuesday 7th April. Please submit your application as soon as possible.
Interviews are expected to be held on Tuesday 14th April.
To apply, submit your resume and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) addressing the selection criteria.
If you have access or support requirements, contact recruitment@parkerville.org.au.
For a confidential conversation about the role, contact Amanda McCurry at amanda.mccurry@parkerville.org.au
Parkerville CYC is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where all staff are welcomed and feel safe to be their authentic selves.
All appointments are subject to a Working With Children Check, National Police Clearance, Department of Communities 395 Check, and proof of working rights.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
