Executive General Manager Children and Family Services

• Provide strategic and operational leadership of the Children and Family portfolio
• Be the internal and external face of Wesley Mission’s children’s and family services – driving high-quality, evidence-based services that build family resilience and reduce the need for statutory intervention
• Leading and growing a values-aligned team and managing funding contracts and portfolio performance
• Leads services that engage directly with children and young people – including out-of-school-hours care, children’s and youth programs and family support – and is accountable for embedding child-safe, trauma-informed and culturally safe practice across the portfolio

• Extensive senior leadership experience in family support, early intervention, children’s or youth services
• Sound knowledge of the NSW early-intervention and family services system, including Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) and – for OOSH – Department of Education requirements
• Demonstrated expertise in evidence-based, trauma-informed and culturally safe family and children’s programs
• Proven ability to lead high-quality, compliant service delivery across multiple program streams, including out-of-school-hours (OOSH) care
• Strong financial acumen, including managing budgets and government and philanthropic funding contracts
• Experience using data and evaluation to demonstrate and improve service outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in business development and service innovation
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop and engage multidisciplinary teams.
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement skills with government, funders and community organisations
• As this is a key role within the organisation, you will have an active Christian faith, seeing this role as a vocation and expression of your faith (desirable) or otherwise you will demonstrate explicit support for Wesley Mission’s faith and purpose (essential)

• Experience in a not-for-profit or community service organisation
• Knowledge of emerging reforms such as Thriving Kids
• Knowledge and experience of other programs and services that might support Children and Families
• Experience working within a faith-based organisation

Generous salary packaging