Peer Educator in Melton

Make a lasting impact in a values-driven organisation supporting diverse communities

Why Mi Care?

Save on tax with generous salary packaging benefit s — novated leasing, general living expenses, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation and venue hire.

Enjoy exclusive perks via our employee wellness portal

— access to amazing discounts on everyday items.

Act as a change agent

— drive real transformation in a purpose-led organisation.

Be part of a multicultural, values-led team making a real difference in the community.

Grow with us

— access professional development in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Mi Care is a not-for-profit organisation that exists to enable people from diverse backgrounds to lead dignified and meaningful lives.

We offer aged care, home care, retirement living and migrant support services, with a strong focus on culturally appropriate care and community connection.

With teams located across Victoria and Queensland, we embrace diversity in both our workforce and the communities we support.

At Mi Care, you’ll join a compassionate, dedicated group of people working to deliver real impact every day.

The Role

The Peer Educator’s will use their lived experience of navigating the Victorian primary and/or secondary education system by assist newly arrived young people from refugee backgrounds with their school work and basic literacy and numeracy skills.

The role will provide assistance to students on subjects such as Maths, English, Science as well as supporting students to develop independent thinking and research skills.

The Peer Educator will attend our school term based tuition clubs and engage with students to increase their confidence socially and academically to participate in their literacy and learning in a more empowered way.

Key attributes to successful do this include providing encouragement and positive feedback to students when appropriate in order to build their confidence in their abilities and studies and utilising strong interpersonal skills to connect with primary and secondary school students.

• What We’re Looking For
• Key Result Areas
• Program Delivery and Facilitation Provide literacy and numeracy support to primary and secondary school students at the tuition clubs.
• Community Engagement and Youth Participation Engage directly with young people and families to encourage participation in activities at the tuitions clubs
• Monitoring and Reporting Contribute to monitoring and evaluation processes, and assist with reporting on outcomes.
• Risk Management and Child Safety Ensure all activities are delivered in line with Mi Care’s child safety, safeguarding, and OH&S requirements.

Experience

• Lived experience of refugee experience and navigating primary or secondary school in a country of settlement.
• Supporting primary or secondary school aged students who speak English as an additional language (EAL) with literacy or numerous skill development and/or activities increasing their confidence is highly desirable.
• Speak Burmese, Karen, Karenni, Hakka Chin or another language from the Myanmar diaspora.
• The ability to work in a culturally sensitive manner and appreciate cultural differences.
• Enthusiastic individuals with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to connect with young people of diverse backgrounds.
• Proficiency in English, both written and oral.
• Proficiency in numeracy
• Are able and want to confidently engage with school-aged children and young people.
• Willingness to undertake training to fulfill requirements of the role.

To be considered for this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand Citizen or permanent resident.

The successful applicant must satisfactorily complete all pre-employment checks, including a National Police Check and working with children (employee) check.

Mi Care is handling this recruitment independently and is not engaging agency support at this stage.

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