Looking for a leadership role with genuine impact? This is your opportunity to shape brighter futures in Shepparton as our next Regional Manager. Leading passionate teams across a range of early childhood and youth justice programs, you'll strengthen community connections, inspire excellence, and help deliver life-changing outcomes for children, young people and families.
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 full time, permanent role based in Shepparton, you’ll lead teams that deliver our community based early childhood and youth justice programs in the region. Reporting to the Director of VIC, SA, TAS and NSW, you’ll be a key member of our leadership team in Victoria to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. We've advertised this role as full-time but if you're looking for something different, please let us know.
You will make a difference by:
- Overseeing delivery, quality assurance, evaluation and reporting across a range of child, youth and family programs including a kindergarten.
- Leading and supporting program teams through supervision, capability development and performance management across the full employee lifecycle
- Identifying and pursuing partnership, growth and business development opportunities, including potential collaborations
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with government, community and sector stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, early issue identification and timely resolution
- Proactively identify, manage and monitor risks relating to service delivery, quality, staff wellbeing and child safeguarding
A place to feel valued:
Your deep expertise in working with community services or early childhood will be invaluable. You’re proactive, creative and flexible in your approach to supporting teams and understand the importance of working with families and children driven by a trauma-informed, strengths-based and culturally sensitive approach. Your knowledge of early childhood, youth and family support programming will allow you to make well informed decisions and lead with impact.
This role requires:
- Qualifications in Social Work, Human Services, Psychology or related field, or significant relevant experience
- Significant experience leading teams a variety of teams in the children and family’s sector in Australia
- 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
- Proven experience managing budgets and developing reports
- Experience working with First Nations families and communities
- Proven experience with complex strategic planning, program management and delivery
- Experience in stakeholder management including contract management
- Current driver’s licence
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:
- Access to full salary packaging benefits –
- Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum
- Opportunity to work on additional projects to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way
- Internal employment and development opportunities
- Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
- 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.
Does this sound like the place for you?
We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.
We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates to apply.
Applications Close: Sunday 2nd August 2026. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they come in, so don’t delay in applying! Previous applicants do not need to reapply.
Position Description: Regional Manager - Northern Victoria
For more information about this position, please contact Director, Claudia Lennon on [email protected] Or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.
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 [email protected]. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, 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.
If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact [email protected] for further support.
