Learning Experience Lead

About the Development Team

The development team at WIRE is focused on creating opportunities for the organisation to grow its impact in priority areas.

The team collectively achieve this by:

• Sharing WIRE’s knowledge via publications and facilitating learning sessions
• Managing WIRE’s relationship with its broad and diverse group of external stakeholders through effective communication, promotion, and experiences.
• Developing, coordinating and supporting income generation opportunities to increase WIRE’s capacity in addressing gender and economic inequity.

The Learning Experience Lead will:

• Develop and deliver our non-accredited short courses and tailored learning sessions to meet stakeholders’ needs, ensuring the content is informative, current best practice, and aligned to WIRE’s purpose.
• Analyse current offerings and create specialised content to share WIRE’s knowledge and insights on gender and economic equity to engage priority stakeholder groups.
• Collaborate with casual learning facilitators to deliver engaging and impactful learning sessions.
• Contribute to the Development team’s efforts to identify and build relationships with potential stakeholders that can support WIRE’s work and extend our impact.
• Collaborate with other members of the Development team to create experiences that inspire change and engage stakeholders, contributing to WIRE’s purpose of addressing gender and economic inequity.
• Assist other members of the development team with responding to enquiries received from internal and external stakeholders.
• Use an intersectional feminist lens in all aspects of training across WIRE
• Participate in WIRE team meetings and other staff events as required

About You

As this is a newly created role, the Learning Experience Lead will work closely with the Development team manager to create processes and procedures for this role. The right candidate is patient and willing to exploring different ways of operating, expects things to go wrong from time to time, is comfortable with learning from mistakes and suggest alternative ways of working to improve outcomes.

There are a lot of moving parts in the Development team. The right candidate for this role will be comfortable with changing priorities at short notice and is able to quickly rearrange workflows and assist the team with delivering outcomes and meeting deadlines.

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:

• A commitment to WIRE’s vision, values and purpose
• Willingness to learn and work collaboratively
• Understanding of gender equity issues including family and gendered violence, intersectional feminist practice.
• Knowledge of how to retain and motivate trainees’ engagement.

Key Selection Criteria

• Gender equity training: Experience in developing and delivering gender equity training
• Demonstrated knowledge of adult learning principles.
• Client relationship management: Demonstrated experienced in developing effective relationships with existing and new clients.
• Content development: Demonstrated ability to develop engaging and informative learning sessions for a range of audiences.
• Group facilitation: Recognised ability to facilitate group-based learning sessions both autonomously and collaboratively.

About WIRE

We are a proud intersectional feminist organisation, and we are committed to creating a fair society for all women, gender diverse, and non-binary people. We see ourselves as initiators of change. We have been actively involved in addressing systemic barriers to gender equity for over 40 years.

We take a proactive stance on issues related to gender inequity which often leads us to areas less explored and often overlooked. For us, gender equity is about meeting individuals where they are and allocating resources and opportunities as needed to create equal outcomes for all members of our society.

We recognised many years ago that economic equity plays a key role in achieving gender equity. Therefore, in the past 17 years, we have focused our efforts on developing practical solutions for improving economic outcomes for all women, gender diverse and non-binary people.

We seek to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the economic system.

WIRE’s Role in Addressing Gender and Economic Equity

We focus our efforts on creating possibilities for change. We break down the process of change into manageable steps and empower individuals, communities, and organisations to take action.

We achieve this by:

• Providing one-on-one support services for individuals
• Building capacity in community leaders to facilitate change
• Providing consulting services for organisations and professionals
• Sharing WIRE’s knowledge through its knowledge centre
• Helping individuals develop the skills and confidence to advocate for themselves and their communities
• By creating possibilities, we ensure that change, though slow and sometimes daunting, remains achievable and doable.

WIRE’s Inclusive Application Process:

WIRE welcomes applications from women and gender-diverse people, especially from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities, or who are multilingual or are from culturally diverse communities. WIRE acknowledges the skills and knowledge acquired through lived experience. This could include experiences of marginalisation such as migrancy, racialisation, extended financial insecurity and family violence. We would love to hear from people who can utilise the skills and knowledge they have gained from lived experience for this role.

Pre-employment checks:

All employees at WIRE are required to undergo a Police Check and a Working with Children Check to confirm they are fit to work with WIRE service users and program participants. Convictions relating to assault, harassment or violence may indicate an applicant is not suitable to work at WIRE. However, we know that many people are unfairly criminalised, particularly those who have experienced family violence and who are part of marginalised communities. We invite people who have relevant experience to apply for this role and to have a confidential discussion about the circumstances of any conviction which might be considered a barrier to your employment at WIRE.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss the role in more detail, please contact the Manager, Development & Partnerships, Mahsa Hajjari via email: mhajjari@wire.org.au using the subject line: Learning Experience Lead enquiry via EthicalJobs.

WIRE aims to make the application process simple. Please respond to the Key Selection Criteria demonstrating your skills, knowledge & experience using the ‘Apply Now‘ button via EthicalJobs.

If you are short-listed, WIRE will contact you and request your CV.

A position description is available here.