Strategic Projects Officer
About inTouch
inTouch is at the forefront of providing integrated and culturally responsive services to women from migrant and refugee communities experiencing family violence. For over 40 years, we’ve championed the cause of our clients, helping more than 30,000 women, children and families to thrive despite the challenges they’ve faced. Our approach is unique and effective, thanks to our inLanguage, inCulture delivery model and our team’s profound and personal understanding of cultural sensitivities and the migration journey.
inTouch is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to being an organisation that embraces a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion within our workforce and approach to service delivery. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic communities, people of all ages and LGBTIQA+ people.
About the Role
The Strategic Projects Officer plays a key role in coordinating and supporting inTouch’s prevention and recovery initiatives, with a strong focus on culturally safe, community-led responses to family and sexual violence. This role is central to building community capacity and strengthening service responses that are informed by lived experience and grounded in cultural safety.
Working closely with Community Leaders and grass-roots organisations, the Strategic Projects Officer will foster trusted partnerships to enable:
- Effective information sharing, collaboration, and sector connection
- Continuous integration of community insight and sector knowledge to inform sexual and family violence initiatives, advocacy, and service model development
- Co-design and delivery of responsive initiatives—including podcasts, videos, and other engagement strategies—tailored to identified community needs
- Deep, place-based understanding of community dynamics and service systems to support meaningful and sustainable impact
Key Responsibilities
Essential
- Coordinate the planning and delivery of prevention and recovery initiatives, with a strong focus on culturally safe responses to sexual and family violence, ensuring alignment with funding requirements and organisational priorities.
- Lead the coordination of key program activities, including practitioner training (in partnership with SETS, CASA, and NOOR Survivor-Advocates), prevention campaigns, and early intervention programs for migrant and refugee communities.
- Support the design and delivery of community capacity building initiatives that strengthen
awareness, prevention, and recovery responses to sexual violence.
- Contribute to monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement of programs, ensuring
outcomes are informed by trauma-informed and community capacity building approaches.
- Develop engaging, culturally responsive resources (including podcasts, videos, and digital
content) in collaboration with subject matter experts to address community needs.
- Provide specialist input into training content on sexual and family violence within migrant and refugee contexts, maintaining contemporary knowledge of best practice and emerging trends.
- Build and sustain strong partnerships with community leaders, grass-roots organisations, and sector stakeholders to support collaboration, engagement, and service access.
- Monitor and report on program activities, outcomes, and emerging community needs to inform service delivery, advocacy, and continuous improvement.
The benefits of working with us?
You’ll be part of a mission-driven organisation that is making a tangible difference in the lives of women from migrant and refugee backgrounds, their families and their communities.
inTouch offers a supportive, diverse and dynamic work environment, where innovation, passion and resilience are at the heart of what we do.
When you join inTouch, you can expect a range of benefits designed to foster your professional growth and ensure your overall wellbeing, including:
- A collaborative and nurturing team culture within a positive working environment, fostering mutual support, and continuous learning.
- Competitive salary plus packaging option.
- Hybrid – office /working from home model.
- 5 weeks Annual Leave.
- Ongoing training, career progression and professional development opportunities.
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Program.
- Purchased leave option.
Key Selection Criteria:
- Tertiary qualification in Social works community development or Community Services
- Proven experience in project coordination or management and delivery within the settlement, community development or primary prevention of family and sexual violence sectors.
- Proven professional experience in a similar role in content and curriculum development, preferably within related discipline.
- Proven knowledge of the national family violence landscape and the complexities of family and sexual violence of migrants and refugees, and the needs of multicultural communities and wider sectors.
- Strong technical skills, including proficiency in multimedia tools, and emerging technology trends to integrate into training content development.
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear and concise training materials
- Proven experience working within the settlement, community development and/or family and sexual violence sectors including lived and living experience.
- Demonstrated ability to oversee complex, multi-location programs, including resource allocation, team coordination and excellent partner and stakeholder engagement.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including experience in partnership development and support, and stakeholder collaboration.
- Strong understanding of the challenges faced by migrant and refugee communities, including systemic barriers to justice and wellbeing.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, with a track record of delivering programs on time and within scope.
- Strong data collection, analysis and reporting skills to monitor program outcomes and impact.
To be successful for the role you’ll also need:
- Genuine commitment to social justice and to assisting migrant and refugee women and children.
- High ethical standards and values, ability to act with integrity and confidentiality.
- Ability to sensitively manage stakeholder relationships.
- A level of maturity and professional accomplishment and track record appropriate to the representational aspects of the role.
Ready to apply?
If this sounds like the role for you, please apply by sending your application to hr@intouch.org.au
Please note your application will not be considered unless you provide a cover letter responding to the key selection criteria (maximum 2 pages of text) and an updated Resume.
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory background checks including a National Police Check (including an international police check if resided continuously in an overseas country for 12 months or more in the last ten years), Working with Children Check, Reference checks, proof of eligibility to work in Australia and qualification checks.
In accordance with our Equal Opportunity Exemption (H326/2023), this position is open to
applicants who identify as female only.
Applications close: 12th August 2026*
*Applications will be reviewed as
they are received, and inTouch reserves the right to close the position prior
to the advertised closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.
