Current Vacancies

Head of Financial Wellbeing

• Based in Dandenong (Hybrid)
• Full time

The Opportunity

Reporting to the CEO in this executive leadership role, you will be an experienced leader ready to apply your expertise and reshape how financial support is thought about at scale.

As our Head of Financial Wellbeing, you will lead SECL’s financial wellbeing and resilience portfolio, bringing a financial, commercial and risk-based lens to the organisation’s approach to financial stress — strengthening early engagement, sharpening pathways, and ensuring financial wellbeing is positioned and used as a high-impact specialist response.

 At SECL, we are very proud of our financial counselling & wellbeing work, delivering early intervention, crisis support and advocacy for people.

The Head of Financial Wellbeing role is to ensure this critical service is supported and complemented by strong early financial engagement, so people receive the right support at the right time.

Role Scope and Purpose

This role is focused on system design, leadership, influence, and impact.

Applying Financial Expertise Earlier 

You will strengthen how and when financial support is activated by: 

• Improving early financial conversations and decision points 
• Strengthening triage and escalation pathways 
• Ensuring specialist expertise is used where it adds the greatest impact 

Leading the Financial Wellbeing and Resilience Portfolio 

You will hold executive accountability for SECL’s Financial Wellbeing and Resilience portfolio, including: 

• Specialist financial counselling services 
• Community-based financial engagement initiatives, including Bring Your Bills 
• Emergency relief program
• Family violence prevention 
• Intake, access, and referral pathways across services 

Service Growth and Reach 

You will lead sustainable growth by: 

• Expanding outreach and place-based engagement models 
• Identifying new cohorts, locations, and delivery channels 
• Developing partnerships that improve reach
• Ensuring growth is underpinned by quality, capability, funding, and governance 

Executive Leadership and Influence 

 As a member of the Executive Team, you will: 

• Contribute to organisational strategy and decision-making 
• Embed a strong financial wellbeing lens across SECL’s work 
• Represent SECL as a credible leader in financial wellbeing and resilience 

Who we are looking for

• Senior leadership experience in any of the following: financial services, financial counselling or Government
• Strong understanding of how financial systems work and can fail for the community
• Strong people leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Effective change leader who drives adaptability within an integrated service environment

What is in it for you

• Be part of an orgnaisation actively working for social justice
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Paid parental leave
• Additional one weeks leave during Christmas and Easter
• Salary packaging and leave loading
• Have fun with a passionate workforce that is diverse and inclusive

As part of our commitment to child safety and to supporting vulnerable individuals, all successful candidates will be required to complete Safety Screening checks prior to commencing employment. This includes a national police record check and a valid Working with Children Check

For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Desiree Kisnorbo, Head of People and Partnership, at dkisnorbo@secl.org.au or 0423 309 967.

Apply via Seek: https://www.seek.com.au/job/91189145

Advocacy and Engagement Advisor

• Based in Springvale
• Full time

The Advocacy and Engagement Advisor is a change agent who helps turn community experience into influence, insight into action, and stories into systemic change. This role is for someone who wants to:

• Fight for inclusion
• Challenge injustice
• Shape public conversations
• And help communities be heard where decisions are made

You will help SECL amplify its public voice, speak with clarity and advocate with purpose across government, sector and community platforms

Lead Advocacy for Change

• Identify systemic barriers emerging from SECL programs and community voices
• Translate lived experience into clear, compelling advocacy priorities
• Develop briefing papers, submissions and issue snapshots that push for reform
• Support SECL’s presence in local, regional and state policy conversations

Build a Strong, Values‑Driven Public Voice

You will own and shape SECL’s advocacy communications, including:

• Developing key messages and position statements grounded in equity and dignity
• Creating practical templates that support consistent, confident advocacy
• Drafting content for newsletters, campaigns, stakeholder updates and public statements
• Ensuring SECL’s voice is bold, respectful, accessible and values‑led

Centre Community Voice

• Work closely with program teams to ethically elevate lived experience
• Support culturally safe consultation and engagement processes
• Help create opportunities for community members to influence decisions that affect them

Engage and Influence Stakeholders

• Build on SECL’s strong relationships with ministers, governments, media, peaks, regulators
• Represent SECL in forums, roundtables and collaborative advocacy spaces
• Track issues, relationships and outcomes to strengthen long‑term influence

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Believes advocacy is essential to social change
• Is confident turning complex social issues into clear, persuasive messages
• Understands the power of lived experience
• Is comfortable speaking up, taking initiative, and shaping conversations
• Wants their work to matter

What you bring

• Experience in advocacy, policy, or communications.
• Experience creating frameworks or advocacy tools
• Understanding of issues affecting multicultural communities, youth and women
• Confidence working independently and navigating complexity
• Understanding financial inclusion and community safety

What is in it for you

• Be part of an organisation actively working for social justice
• Use your skills to influence systems.
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Paid parental leave
• Additional leave during Christmas and Easter
• Salary packaging and leave loading
• Have fun with a passionate workforce that is diverse and inclusive

As part of our commitment to child safety and to supporting vulnerable individuals, all successful candidates will be required to complete Safety Screening checks prior to commencing employment. This includes a national police record check and a valid Working with Children Check

For a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Desiree Kisnorbo, Head of People and Partnership, at dkisnorbo@secl.org.au or 0423 309 967.

Apply via Seek: https://www.seek.com.au/job/91056681