Position Description

Employment Pathways Lead

Role Specifics

Direct reports | 1

Reports to | Director, Enable

FTE | 1.0 (Full-Time)

Location | Flexible - PLACE functions as a remote/hybrid workforce

PLACE Level | 3

Salary Range | $110,000 - $130,000 + superannuation

Role Summary

The Employment Pathways Lead will contribute to the development of a national workforce strategy to strengthen the capability and capacity of those engaged in place-based work. This role is focused on designing entry points and future career pathways into the place-based workforce, with an emphasis on creating a future-ready workforce through education and access. It will create pathways through cross-sector collaboration, alignment with educational institutions, and strategic partnerships.

The Employment Pathways Lead will conduct research and analysis to identify workforce trends, employment pathways, avenues of access to pathways and the feasibility of a registered training organisation. The Employment Pathways Lead will work closely with the Workforce and Sector Strengthening Lead and the Director, Enable to address workforce strategy from multiple angles, ensuring a coordinated approach to building a strong place-based workforce.

Who We Are

Partnerships for Local Action and Community Empowerment (PLACE) is a not-for-profit organisation, committed to collaborative, community-driven approaches to create impactful and lasting change.

It is our vision to enable communities and governments to jointly decide on matters that are most important to our lives. We lead national initiatives to develop workforce strategies, enhance place-based practices and improve data monitoring and evaluation.

At PLACE, we are dedicated to creating lasting change through understanding, action and empowered governance.

Areas of Responsibility

1. Leadership and Collaboration

  • Provide leadership and guidance to staff and project teams. 

  • Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment. 

  • Ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope

  • Work closely with all PLACE functional areas to ensure workforce insights are captured, shared, and acted upon organisation wide.

2. Workforce Strategy Development

  • Contribute to a national strategy that addresses skill gaps, training needs, and workforce challenges in place-based initiatives.

  • Map available training to identified place-based skills.

  • Produce a white paper on the feasibility of PLACE becoming a registered training organisation.

3. Capacity Building and Training

  • Work with local place-based initiatives to ensure training programs are tailored to specific community needs and contexts. 

  • Partner with educational institutions to align pathways with real-world demands of place-based methodologies.

  • Support the development of innovative, cross-sector approaches to workforce planning and training delivery.

4. Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with government, funders, educational bodies, and relevant associations to support workforce development goals. 

  • Convene practitioners and professionals across sectors to align employment pathways. 

  • Support channels for stakeholders to share experiences and insights, fostering collaboration and shared ownership of outcomes.

  • Represent PLACE in external engagement, ensuring consistent, values-aligned communication.

5. Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Support the development and use of mechanisms to track the implementation and impact of the workforce strategy, including stakeholder satisfaction and strategy adoption rates. 

  • Use evaluation data to inform the strategy, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of place-based initiatives and sectors. 

  • Share lessons learned and best practices to promote continuous improvement and sector-wide learning.