About the program
The Men’s Project is an initiative of Jesuit Social Services launched in 2017. We provide leadership on the reduction of violence and other harmful behaviours prevalent among boys and men and build approaches to improve their wellbeing and keep families and communities safe.
Our vision is for good men, respectful relationships and safe communities.
We will achieve this by:
promoting positive change around gender norms and stereotypes and what it means to be a man in the 21st century; learning from and expanding programs that build positive relationship skills and improve the wellbeing of boys and men; and developing innovative ways to stop cycles of violence and harmful behaviour among boys and men.
Current priorities for The Men’s Project include:
research into better understanding the attitudes and behaviours of boys and young men; developing new early intervention approaches with a focus on educational settings; and piloting innovative responses working with perpetrators of adolescent family violence.
The Men’s Project builds on Jesuit Social Services’ 45-year engagement with boys and men in trouble, but it will also involve us leading new work to reduce violence, to improve the wellbeing of boys and men, and to keep families and communities safe.
Targeted early intervention with young men and boys to prevent violence
This role will be focused on the implementation of an early intervention project in various settings, with boys and young men at risk of using violence. The project has commenced and will run until September 2025, and aims to:
Trial models across several pilot sites that engage at-risk boys and young men aged 12-25 years, from diverse communities, to challenge harmful gender norms, promote more flexible ideas about what it means to be a man, address violence-supportive attitudes and behaviours and build skills (e.g. self-regulation; challenging sexist behaviour as a bystander) that can contribute to reducing violence.
Build the capacity of key workforces to work with boys and young men to prevent violence including (but not limited to) by promoting positive conversations about gender, challenging rigid masculine stereotypes and engaging as a bystander.
Working in collaboration with an independent evaluator, build the evidence base to understand the extent to which the program is likely to improve outcomes for participants.
About the role
- To use professional knowledge to guide and inform design, implementation, facilitation and evaluation of multiple at-risk psycho-education programs that reduce gendered violence.
- Provide program team with current knowledge of issues impacting young people aged 12-16, and the intersectionality of trauma and healthier masculinities that engage at-risk young people in behaviour and/or attitudinal change.
- To use skills to build positive relationships with at-risk youth who are currently or have previously been exposed to trauma.
Competitive remuneration, plus salary packaging benefit, is offered together with ongoing professional and career development as well as opportunities for personal growth.
What Jesuit Social Services can offer you:
- An organisation that lives its values, through its day to day work
- A welcoming and supportive relational environment
- A comprehensive Induction and Orientation program
- Ongoing training and development related to your role
- Employee assistance program
- A competitive salary plus salary packaging benefits
- Generous leave
About you
- Demonstrated experience in building strong, trusting, trauma informed relationships with young people who are disadvantaged and have a range of complex needs.
- Experience facilitating group programs and delivering one-to-one support to young people.
- Understanding of the current issues which impact young people aged 12-16, including trends, social influences, online gaming and gambling, harmful ideas about masculinity, and pornography use.
- Capacity to understand and challenge violence supportive attitudes and implement strengths-based strategies that will help young people identify and change harmful attitudes and behaviours and solve problems without using violence.
- Demonstrated capacity to work as a productive and positive member of a multi-disciplinary team
How to apply
- Upload your resume and cover letter incorporating your responses to the Key Selection Criteria from the Position Description.
- For further information please contact Kirsten Meyer, Manager Early Interventions-Youth on 0477 956 758
Applications close at 5.00pm on 12 February 2026
Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and the closing date may be subject to change without notice.
Jesuit Social Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, sexuality, disability or religious affiliation.
We strongly encourage applications from all community members including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, members of the LGBTIQA+ community, people with a disability, people of culturally diverse backgrounds and working parents.
Jesuit Social Services is a Child Safe organisation and is committed to protecting children and young people from harm. We require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening process prior to appointment.
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