Innovation Lead

For over 150 years, Anglicare Southern Queensland has been walking alongside Queenslanders, offering care, support, and dignity to those who need it most. By providing a range of support services, including aged care, foster care, family support, homelessness services, youth support and counselling, our mission is to make a lasting impact by fostering hope, independence, and inclusion.

At the heart of everything we do is a simple belief: everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, respect, and care. Join our team today, and make a difference today, tomorrow and together. Be where you’re needed. Belong right here.

The Role

We are currently seeking to hire an Innovation Lead to join our Mission, Research and Advocacy team and enable Anglicare Southern Queensland to become a more innovative organisation in a way that is faithful to our mission, values, and history.

The role designs, stewards, and continuously improves Anglicare’s innovation framework and the practical resources that make innovation possible in day-to-day practice. It supports the organisation to identify meaningful challenges and opportunities, test and validate ideas responsibly, embed learning, and translate insight into practical improvement and change.

The Innovation Lead plays a critical role in shaping organisational culture, leveraging Anglicare’s existing values and legacy, strengthening cultural signals that support learning and experimentation, and helping leaders and staff adopt more open, confident, and evidence-informed approaches to innovation and change.

How you will make help us make a difference

• Ensure Anglicare has a clear, disciplined, and usable innovation framework supported by practical resources so innovation activity is consistent, effective and aligned across the organisation.
• Lead and enables a values-led innovation culture to embed innovation as faithful stewardship grounded in mission, values and history.
• Build a shared understanding of discovery, ideation and validation and leads to the design and oversight of triage, concept framing and validation processes so ideas are assessed rigorously and fairly.
• Enable organisational learning, continue and recognition by capturing learning and insights to support continuity from innovation to implementation.

What our team are looking for

• Valid Aged Care Worker Screening Check or ability to attain (NPC or NDIS).
• Degree qualified with related practical experience (e.g. innovation, strategy, organisational development, design, research, evaluation, or public/social sector fields)
• Demonstrated experience enabling innovation, improvement, or culture change within complex organisations
• Strong capability in structured discovery, sense-making, and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence
• Experience facilitating cross-functional collaboration, workshops, and leadership conversations
• Proven ability to balance experimentation, learning, and creativity with governance and risk discipline
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including translating insight into clear, decision-ready outputs
• High level of professional judgement, credibility, and influence with senior leaders
• Demonstrated commitment to values-based practice, ethical decision-making, and responsible stewardship

Why you’ll love working with Anglicare Southern Queensland

• Voted Reader’s Digest Most Trusted Brand in Aged Care eight consecutive years in a row.
• Know your role is making a real difference supporting Queenslanders in need.
• Value-driven organisation rooted in Love, Care, Hope & Humility.
• Flexible Working Environment and work from home possibilities.
• Not for Profit Salary Packaging (Reduce your taxable income by up to $18,550).
• Novated Lease – pay for your car and running costs with pre-tax dollars!
• Corporate Health Insurance Discounts with Bupa and Medibank.
• Benefits App – discounts and cash back at retailers (Woollies, Big W, Myer & much more!).
• Referral App – $1 for each time you share job and up to $300 for a successful referral.
• Wellbeing App – Mental, Physical and Financial wellbeing support.
• A culture of recognition with our Annual People Awards.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program & Pastoral Care Support.

What’s next?

Apply now and send us your most recent CV.

For further information please contact Daniel Walsh – ***email_hidden***

Applications will be progressed as they are received.

Anglicare is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, those from cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds, LGBTIQ+ communities, people with disabilities and people with a lived experience of mental health issues. We promote a child-safe environment and are committed to providing on- going care and protection.