Team Leader

Save the Children Australia; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 48,000 - 80,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Award rate salary (Level 6.1)

PBI salary packaging benefits

Extra leave

Employee Wellbeing Program

Individual learning plans

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Save the Children Australia is seeking a collaborative and compassionate leader for a part-time Perth Metro role in Kelmscott. You will mentor and lead a high-performing team to provide safe, responsive and culturally informed support to children, families and caregivers.

You will champion children’s voices, build staff capability, and ensure services comply with funding, policy and best-practice frameworks while partnering with communities to improve outcomes.

Qualifications

• Evidence of leading and developing high-performing teams delivering child-centred services.
• Ability to supervise, mentor and manage performance.
• Strong relationship-building with communities, services and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and support a high-performing team to deliver safe, high-quality, child-centred services.
• Build capability, wellbeing and professional development through supervision and mentoring.
• Ensure services align with policies, funding, and legal obligations and best-practice frameworks.
• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with children, families, communities and stakeholders.
• Monitor service delivery and program performance to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching

Stakeholder engagement

People management

Decision making

Trauma-informed practice

Child-centred practice

Job description

Save the Children Australia 4.96K subscribers

Are you a collaborative and compassionate leader who wants to make a real difference? Join an already amazing team and play a key role in mentoring, inspiring and leading by example. You'll champion children's voices, support staff to thrive, and help ensure children, young people and families receive safe, responsive and culturally informed support to achieve their goals.

54 reasons is Australia’s leading child rights organisation – no ordinary not-for-profit.

Proudly part of the Save the Children Australia Group and global movement, we’re here to make sure that children and young people have their rights met and thrive, in all their diversity.

With the child’s voice at the centre, we provide quality services to children and their caregivers in every state and territory, and across regions, remote areas and capital cities. From our programs to our support services - this is the place to realise your purpose.

A place to make a difference:

In this part-time role (30.4 hours per week - Mon, Tues, Thurs & Friday - 7.6 hrs per day) maximum term role (till 30 th June, 2028) you’ll work as a part of our Perth Metro team located in Kelmscott to help us create lasting change for children everywhere.

You will make a difference by

• Leading, coaching, and supporting a high-performing team to deliver safe, high-quality, and child-centred services.
• Building the capability, wellbeing, and professional development of team members through effective supervision, mentoring, and performance management.
• Ensuring services are delivered in line with organisational policies, funding requirements, legislative obligations, and best-practice frameworks.
• Developing and maintaining strong partnerships with children, families, communities, and key stakeholders to improve outcomes and strengthen service integration.
• Monitoring service delivery, resources, and program performance to ensure positive outcomes for children, young people, and families.

A place to feel valued:

Your deep expertise in supporting vulnerable children, young people, and families will be invaluable. You're a compassionate and authentic leader who builds trust quickly, develops the capability of others, and creates a positive team culture. You are confident navigating complexity, making sound decisions, and balancing operational priorities with a strong focus on achieving positive outcomes for children and families.

This role requires:

• Demonstrated leadership skills to motivate and guide a high performing team to achieve collective goals, program and client outcomes.
• A genuine passion to support and manage a high-performing team to meet and exceed objectives and achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder engagement skills, with a strong understanding of place-based practice and the ability to work collaboratively with communities, services, and partners to achieve shared outcomes.
• Sound judgement and the ability to navigate complex situations, balance competing priorities, and make informed decisions in a dynamic environment.
• A commitment to strengths-based, trauma-informed, culturally safe, and child-centred practice, ensuring the needs and voices of children, young people, and families remain at the heart of service delivery.

A place to belong:

At 54 reasons, we invest in the development and wellbeing of our people. Our workforce is approximately 600 people strong, and proudly diverse, whether in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, cultures and beliefs.

It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

• Award rate salary (Level 6.1 - $58.37 per hour) plus access full PBI salary packaging benefits - use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!
• Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
• Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development
• Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We have a highly inclusive culture and diverse workforce reflecting the communities we serve, allowing you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want)!

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.

Applications Close: Sunday October 4 th , 2026 . Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they come in, so don’t delay in applying!

We understand the need for work-life balance. We've advertised this role as part-time but if you're looking for something different, please let us know.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure its straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at [e-mail]. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your r ace, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation.All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.