We are seeking a Specialist Family Violence Advisor – Housing and Homelessness within the Western Integrated Family Violence Committee (WIFVC)! This role is a SCHADS Level 7 ($122,670 – $127,788) pro rata, pay point dependent on experience, plus 12% superannuation and up to $15,990 salary packaging. This is a 12-month fixed term part-time role (0.6 FTE).
About the role
The Specialist Family Violence Advisor – Housing and Homelessness is a pilot role designed to strengthen system integration between the housing, homelessness and family violence sectors across Melbourne’s Western Metropolitan region. This senior role sits within the Western Integrated Family Violence Committee (WIFVC) and will provide specialist and expert MARAM, family violence secondary consultation, capability building, and system-level advice, to the housing and homelessness sector.
Key responsibilities:
- Represent the WIFVC across sectors, including relevant governance groups such as the Western Local Area Service Network (WLASN)
- Build and maintain strong relationships across Housing and homelessness services, specialist family violence services, and other sector-based Specialist FV Advisor roles
- Provide strategic and practice-informed family violence secondary consultation to housing and homelessness services, with a focus on building organisational capability and supporting complex decision-making
- Assist services to respond to complex presentations, including where risk thresholds or service eligibility create system gaps
- Design and deliver training and capability-building activities tailored to housing and homelessness services
- Act as a subject matter expert in all things MARAM specifically providing secondary consultation and information sharing within the housing and homelessness sector.
- Autonomously create activities to support increased MARAM alignment within the housing and homelessness sector.
- Identify systemic issues at the intersection of family violence and homelessness, including gaps in referral pathways, risk threshold challenges, and data and visibility gaps (e.g. hidden cohorts)
- Contribute to the design, implementation and continuous improvement of the pilot
About you
Essential
- Extensive demonstrated experience in family violence practice, with strong understanding of the gendered drivers of violence
- Exceptionally strong knowledge of MARAM and Information Sharing Schemes (MARAMIS)
- Experience working within (or demonstrated experience working alongside) the housing and/or homelessness sector
- Demonstrated ability to provide secondary consultation, practice advice or workforce capability building
- Experience working autonomously and as a subject matter expert
- Experience leading or contributing to system-level or organisational change initiatives
- Highly developed stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills, particularly across sectors
- Experience in data, evaluation, or evidence-informed practice development
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to translate complex concepts into practical guidance
- Ability to work with complexity, ambiguity and competing system demands
- Current Working with Children Check
- Satisfactory Police Check (processed within the last three months)
- Commitment to working in alignment with organisational values, including intersectional, trauma-informed and culturally safe practice
Desired
- Experience in regional integration, sector reform, or cross-sector initiatives
- Understanding of the western metropolitan region service system
We are actively hiring for this role, so apply ASAP; applications will close on 25th July 2026.
Should you have any questions or queries, or wish to review the Position Description for this role, please email recruitment@genwest.org.au
