Manager Project Support

Make a real difference

Be part of one of Victoria’s leading not-for-profits and help create meaningful change in the community every day.

Location

Negotiable across VincentCare metro sites: Glenroy, North Melbourne, Box Hill

Work type

Maximum term until 31^st December 2026

Full time (part time can also be considered)

Working model

Hybrid

A little bit about you

You are an experienced community services professional who thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments and brings emotional intelligence, professionalism and a genuine commitment to creating better outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

You will also bring:

• Experience leading projects in a community services, not-for-profit or government-adjacent organisation, with a track record of working alongside or reporting to senior leadership
• Sound knowledge of homelessness, AOD, family violence or related service sectors and an understanding of how government-funded services operate
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing reports, submissions or funding documentation
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder engagement skills. You know how to influence without authority and bring people along with you
• A tertiary qualification in community services, social work or equivalent or experience in Policy, Management or Project Management
• Formal project management qualifications are not required

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join VincentCare's senior management team in a newly created, fast-paced role that will make a real difference. Reporting to the Senior Manager Specialist Services, you will work alongside Senior Managers and Hub Managers across our Inner Melbourne, Northern and Hume hubs to drive forward a portfolio of high-priority projects at a time of significant organisational growth and activity.

This is a hands-on project role, you will lead project meetings, manage documentation and governance and keep complex workstreams moving across the organisation. With no direct reports, your influence will come through your ability to build relationships, communicate with clarity and work effectively with people at all levels, from frontline teams to executive leadership and external partners including government, funders and sector bodies.

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Key responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate project management activity across multiple concurrent projects, including property and construction, service relocation, program reform and policy development
• Drive project meetings, forums and consultations, ensuring actions are tracked, documented and progressed
• Support Senior Managers with project governance, reporting and stakeholder communications at an executive and board level
• Work collaboratively with Hub Managers across Inner Melbourne, Northern and Hume to progress large-scale projects that improve outcomes for clients
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams, government representatives, partner agencies and sector bodies
• Ensure project documentation, financial reporting and compliance requirements are met in line with VincentCare's policies and funding obligations

Why join Vincentcare?

• Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
• Career Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• We offer a place where you know you are contributing to a firm committed to helping others. We are passionate about #SocialJustice.

About Vincentcare Victoria

VincentCare Victoria is an award-winning organisation established to provide a range of accommodation and support services to people that are facing disadvantage throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.

We are a leading community-focused organisation dedicated to supporting people experiencing disadvantage, including homelessness and those impacted by family violence. We are committed to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.

VincentCare has over three hundred dedicated, talented and enthusiastic staff working across a range of programs and services and offers a number of benefits including career development opportunities; salary packaging; study leave; family friendly, flexible working environment.

VincentCare is committed to demonstrating the principles of self-determination, reconciliation, intersectional inclusion, equity, and social justice. This means that we will resolutely:

• Take specific steps to ensure that all staff, volunteers and clients feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect.
• Celebrate people’s diverse physical and cognitive abilities, mental or cognitive health status, cultural background and ethnicity, gender identity, sex characteristic, sexual orientation, age, faith or non-faith.
• Critically review our work to identify disadvantages and we actively seek to place the voices and expertise of marginalised people at the centre of our actions when improving our inclusion strategies.
• Lead by example in how we challenge disadvantage and contribute to a more equitable world which is free from discrimination and marginalisation.

Want to know more?

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How to apply

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Please submit:

• Your CV
• A short cover letter outlining your suitability

Applications close: 29^th July 2026

Please note: applications will be reviewed as they are received and the role may close earlier. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Phone enquiries may be made to Molly O'Shaughnessy, Senior Manager, on 0431 633 245.

Important information

• Pre-employment checks are required (including National Police Check, Working With Children Check and right to work)
• We are committed to child safety
• We value diversity and inclusion and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of all backgrounds

No agencies please.

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