Location: Macquarie Park, NSW
Date advertised: 25th March 2025
Job Type: Part time
Closing Date: 25th April 2025
Anglicare Sydney is a leading and highly regarded community NFP organisation in Australia.
Our vision is to see Jesus Christ honoured, lives enriched and communities strengthened. To achieve this, we are looking to attract the most capable and mission aligned people to join us.
For over 160 years Anglicare has been serving people in need- providing care to older people and services to the vulnerable. We began because of people who saw a need in the community and who were compelled to make a difference. People motivated by Christian love and a passion to serve. If this describes you, we would love to invite you to join us!
Community Engagement Officer – Foster Care
If You’re Looking For...
- A pioneering team that is actively scaling the impact of foster care in churches and communities across NSW.
- A leadership opportunity where your passion and vision can shape the future of community engagement.
- A role where faith, social justice, and practical action come together to create lasting change.
As a Community Engagement Officer – Foster Care, you will bridge the gap between churches, community organisations, and foster care families. You’ll empower local churches to step into the foster care story—offering pastoral support, mobilising volunteers, and ensuring foster families are wrapped in a network of care.
Foster care isn’t just about carers—it’s about the entire community responding together. In this role, In collaboration with the Anglicare Foster Care team you’ll:
- Build strategic partnerships with churches, ensuring they are actively supporting foster families.
- Facilitate engaging training on trauma-informed care, pastoral support, and community development.
- Provide one-on-one pastoral care to foster carers and volunteers, offering them guidance and encouragement.
- Collaborate with local organisations to create practical opportunities for communities to contribute to foster care.
- Support the growth of the holistic Foster Circle model, helping churches establish wraparound care teams for foster families.
This is a role where faith meets action. You’ll be instrumental in growing a movement where churches become safe havens for foster carers and children. You’ll help transform communities so that no foster family walks this journey alone.
This is a Permanent Part Time (3 days a week) role based at Macquarie Park.
Who We’re Looking For
We’re searching for a dynamic, faith-driven leader with a heart for vulnerable children and families. If you’re passionate about mobilising churches, equipping volunteers, and supporting foster carers, this is the role for you.
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Have experience in pastoral care, chaplaincy, or church ministry and a deep understanding of faith-based community engagement.
- Understand the complexities of foster care and are passionate about making a difference.
- Have exceptional relationship-building skills and can engage with diverse stakeholders—from ministers to foster carers.
Desirable (but not essential!):
- Lived experience as a foster carer or working closely with vulnerable children.
- Qualifications in theology, community development, or social work.
- Experience working with trauma-affected individuals or families.
If you’re ready to be part of something bigger than yourself, to use your passion for vulnerable children and families in a role that creates real, lasting impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Benefits of joining Anglicare:
- A warm, welcoming culture
- Ongoing training and development with a focus on career growth
- Experienced and passionate leadership team who are supportive and consultative
- Not-for-profit salary packaging benefits - reducing your taxable income by $15,900 plus an additional $2,650 for salary packaging accommodation, meals and entertainment.
- Employee Assistance Program - Free, voluntary and confidential counselling service
- Fitness Passport
- Access to discounts from over 400 retailers on our rewards program
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.
Anglicare - Jesus Christ honoured, lives enriched and communities strengthened.
Anglicare is committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and has zero tolerance of child abuse.
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.
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