Outreach Support and Advocacy Worker

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Flat Out Inc

Hybrid
  • Career category: Advocacy/ Policy
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Not specified
  • Remuneration: AUD 15,900 AUD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Location: Australia
GBV / VAWG Health LGBTQI+ rights/ SOGIESC Trans rights
Organisational Overview
Flat Out is an independent, not-for-profit, community organisation that supports and advocates for women, trans and gender diverse people to get out and stay out of prison and live free from violence including state violence. We provide outreach to Victorian prisons and work with people who have experienced incarceration, homelessness, family violence, mental health and alcohol and other drug use.

Flat Out receives government and non-government funding to provide high-quality, innovative, and effective services and advocacy. We are committed to providing support at the highest professional standard within a holistic, person-centred, intersectional feminist, decarceral framework.
Flat Out leads and participates in research and education to the broader community about a person’s right to live free from trauma, injustice and violence, and the issues for women and trans and gender diverse people in the criminal legal system.

Flat Out is an intersectional feminist organisation that strives to be accessible and accountable to women, trans and gender diverse people with lived experience of criminalisation and incarceration. A volunteer Board provides strategic oversight and governance.

Key Selection Criteria
1. Demonstrated experience supporting and advocating for incarcerated or criminalised people particularly in the following:
a. housing and homelessness
b. family violence, intimate partner violence and sexual assault
c. complex trauma, mental health and disability
d. Alcohol and other drugs and harm reduction
2. Understanding of the issues and needs of women, trans and gender diverse people in the prison and criminal legal systems and the structural impacts of colonisation, white supremacy, misogyny, transphobia and transmisogyny.
3. Knowledge of available support services and resources demonstrated capacity to establish, maintain and develop effective referral networks
4. Demonstrated capacity to courageously, persistently and effectively advocate for the rights and interests of supported people
5. Demonstrated capacity to communicate and interact with sensitivity, diplomacy and clear, consistent boundaries to build effective, genuine relationships with supported people, colleagues and other services.
6. Demonstrated commitment to critical self-reflective and self-care practices, and professional development.
7. Demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively in a team
8. Demonstrated ability to balance competing priorities, excellent time management skills and ability to work independently (self-directed), within a team and the wider organisation.
9. Competency in using SHIP or a comparable data system to create and maintain appropriate records and files, including privacy and confidentiality issues, data sharing within the team for handovers, funding acquittals, time management and, financial accountability

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