For the full Position Description and details on how to apply, see the Out For Australia website.

Overview

The State Director is responsible for leading and managing the State Team. The State Director is a people manager who grows, equips, influences and empowers their team to drive OFA’s activities and programs in their state. The two primary functions of State Team are:

1. Events: Support event volunteers to run events in your state, that showcase visible role models and thought leadership, and create safe spaces for aspiring young LGBTIQA+ professionals to be their most authentic selves in the workplace; and

2. Outreach: Foster relationships in your state community through our outreach strategy (particularly with universities and key local community partners), both to better understand our community and to promote OFA, to successfully support our events and to promote our mentoring program.

The State Director works through their team to implement the OFA national strategy and report on state activities, primarily overseeing these two functions, while also collaborating with our Mentoring Team, Communications Team and other national teams

Responsibilities:

Team management/leadership (35%)

• It is your role to provide the State Team with a clear sense of direction and purpose and to manage and empower your State Team to implement outreach and event strategies and to succeed with their respective projects. This involves the following:

1. Recruit and onboard to build a strong QLD team.
2. Helping team members articulate their visions/set goals.
3. Checking in with team members periodically to ensure those goals are being met.
4. Connecting team members with adequate resources to achieve their vision.
5. Working with other national portfolio leaders (eg. Mentoring Director, Events Director, P&C Director, etc.) to align state and national strategies.

• In addition, you should take a mentoring/coaching role with your team members (where appropriate). At a minimum, you should be organising 1-1 catch-ups with individual team members (in person or via Google Meets) every few months to chat about their volunteer experience and their professional development.

Event Delivery and Strategy (40%)

• Within your first month, you will be expected to review and update a goals and strategy document with your long-term (one year) vision for OFA in your state/territory which aligns with the national strategy, as well as goals for three months, six months and one year. You will report against this strategy in your regular check-ins with the CEO.
• You will deliver events in collaboration with OFA partners and relating to successful grants. Events will be organised by the State teams with ultimate responsibility for organisation and delivery with the State Director.
• On an ongoing basis, you will talk with and work with the CEO and the other State Directors to share ideas and address issues of national importance.
• On an ad-hoc basis, you may collaborate with external stakeholders and execute on existing or create new initiatives together with the partnership, community and state teams.

Organisational responsibilities (15%)

• Organise and run monthly State Team meetings (preferably face-to-face but with the option for remote meetings). Before these meetings, you must liaise with other portfolio areas in OFA (chiefly Mentoring and Partnerships) so you can report to your team on national developments and ensure that state projects and activities align with these (i.e. these meetings are not just a ‘show and tell’, they are a crucial information exchange).
• Oversee and coordinate annual State Team recruitment and succession planning, with the support of the People and Culture Team (such as by helping draft Position Descriptions and holding interviews).
• Manage the state budget and ensure compliance and recording-keeping needs for the state are met.

General volunteer expectations (10%)

• Undertake an OFA volunteer induction and role onboarding.
• Understand and implement OFA’s strategy, vision and mission.
• Uphold our volunteer code of conduct.
• Assist with initiatives as required.

Note: State Directors should ordinarily reside in that State, since a major part of the role is to organise and attend in-person events.