Current Vacancies

Cultura is the new organisation resulting from the merger of Geelong Ethnic Communities Council (trading as Diversitat) and Multicultural Aged Care Services Geelong (MACS).

Our Purpose: Provide innovative services to support, care for and celebrate culturally diverse individuals through their life journey

Our Vision: Empowering diverse individuals and communities to reach their full potential

Our Values: Inclusion Integrity Sustainability Kindness

MACS and Diversitat have been serving the Geelong community for more than 40 years with a focus on our multicultural communities. As the new entity, Cultura operates across various sites delivering a range of services including residential aged care, home care and aged support services, settlement, training and education, financial counselling and disability support. We also operate a range of social enterprises including The Pulse community radio and various community events including the popular Pako Festa.

Cultura also offers an extremely generous salary packaging benefit, giving staff the opportunity to salary package up to $18,550 per annum of their pre-tax yearly income.

The Role:

The Strategic Partnerships Program Worker will partner and collaborate with a range of stakeholders to support positive settlement outcomes for newly arrived communities settling in the Colac region.

This position will be based in Colac and is contracted on a maximum-term part time basis for 12 months, working 22.5 hours per week.

About You:

• Respond to settlement issues identified through a range of Community Development approaches, including the design, implementation and evaluation of community capacity building projects with new and emerging communities.
• Collaboration and coordination through partnerships with communities, agencies and local service providers to improve settlement outcomes.
• Community consultation and engagement of communities in all areas of program planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Coordinate information workshops regarding a range of settlement issues to share knowledge and increase understanding.
• Work with a range of partners, e.g. local government and service providers to support new arrival communities to participate in a variety of activities and events such as Harmony week, Refugee week and Colac KANA.
• Fulfil all reporting and budget requirements and undertake project monitoring and evaluation.
• Maintain data collection systems and processes and ensure data is entered in a timely and accurate manner.
• Tertiary qualifications in Community Development, Social Sciences/Social work (or equivalent).
• Experience working with migrant and refugee communities.