Targeting:
Females

Committee of Management – Treasurer Role

• Innovative specialist NFP directly supporting women and gender diverse people
• Strong values orientation
• Advocating for structural change to end gendered violence
• Voluntary treasurer role

About Project Respect

Project Respect is a not-for-profit, non-faith-based community organisation that supports women and gender diverse people with experiences in the sex industry, and women and gender diverse people with experiences of sexual exploitation. We work from a feminist and intersectional framework, which positions our service users at the centre of our work and recognises the structural systems which underpin and perpetuate gender inequality. Our service provision understands the intersection of family violence, sexual violence, and sexual exploitation, including from intimate partners and family members.

We support the decriminalisation of sex work and the safety of sex workers.

Project Respect’s purposes are to:

• Support women and gender diverse people with experience in the sex industry to achieve self- directed goals, including equitable access to services,
• Support women and gender diverse people who have experienced trafficking for sexual exploitation, whether current, historic, international, or domestic
• Advocate for structural change to end sexual exploitation.

We provide a platform to elevate and amplify the voices of, while also being informed and guided by, those with past and present lived experience.

About the role

With a skilled and dedicated Committee of Management and staff, and with a desire to consolidate our impact and collaborative capacity, Project Respect would like to invite applications from suitably qualified candidates with aligned values to join the Committee and contribute to the organisation’s strategic direction and governance.

Project Respect is seeking to appoint a new Treasurer to the Committee of Management and have identified the following priority skill/experience areas to complement the existing skills mix of the current members.

We are seeking applicants with:

• Strategic Financial Management skills;
• Accounting qualifications, including CA/CPA Professional Membership;
• Knowledge and experience of contemporary best practice corporate governance (particularly in the not-for-profit context);
• Understanding of, and alignment with feminist principles and how they can be applied in a Committee of Management context;
• Experience working effectively and collaboratively within a Committee of Management, Board or similar context.

Applicants with the following would be highly regarded:

• Skills as a sector strategist or thought leader, and be well networked in this respect;
• Ability to think strategically, ideally within the context of relevant State and Commonwealth Family Violence and Modern Slavery National Plans, policies, and priorities;
• High level reputation and networks in the broader business and/or public sector, or local community services, social justice, women’s health communities and associated key stakeholders, with the ability to effectively engage and communicate with those stakeholders;
• Previous experience at board level (particularly NFP or FDV-related boards);
• Knowledge, or understanding and appreciation, of the implications arising from State and Commonwealth family and sexual violence sector reforms, decriminalisation of sex work, and/or contemporary responses to victim survivors of modern slavery;
• Knowledge, experience, and networks related to sex work, women’s well-being (including government Policy), immigration, women’s health, women’s legal services, or resource allocation;
• A formal governance qualification from an Australian institution; and/or
• Experience as a Lived Experience Advocate, either with experiences in the sex industry, or experiences of sexual

What We Offer

• A meaningful opportunity to contribute your skills to a community-led organisation supporting women and gender diverse people;
• Orientation and induction, including support from the Chair and Executive Director;
• Financial information prepared by a skilled Executive Director, supported by an external bookkeeper
• A Committee culture that protects privacy, confidentiality and disclosures of lived experience
• Professional development opportunities and opportunities to represent the organisation
• Directors and Officers Liability and Volunteer Insurance coverage

Note: In accordance with our Constitution, Project Respect utilises the exemption provisions of S88 and S28 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 to only employ people who identify as a woman or are gender diverse. Applicants for Committee of Management positions must meet this criteria.

Please provide a Committee of Management focused resume of up to 4 pages, and cover letter which addresses the skills/experience criteria above. Applications close on 10 November and should be directed to the Chair, Jacquie O’Brien, at  Jacquie@projectrespect.org.au. You can also contact Jacquie on 0409 115 003.

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