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Job Opportunity: AWAVA Administrative Assistant

AWAVA is seeking an independent, motivated, innovative, and solutions oriented administration assistant to join our team. The administration assistant will provide administrative, organisational, and communication support to the AWAVA Chair and Program Manager, AWAVA Executive and Advisory Group or AWAVA delegate and WESNET as Lead Agency, to deliver the aims and objectives of AWAVA and AWAVA funded contract deliverables.

For more information, including position description and selection criteria, closing date and interview dates, please follow the link

The position is based in Canberra.

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Priorities for Women – Violence Against Women Policies

As part of AWAVA’s ‘Priorities for Women’ activities, AWAVA sent letters to all major parties asking them about their policies for addressing violence against women and girls; their views of the challenges; their commitment to the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their funding commitments.

We asked the following four questions (in no more than 500 words per question) and requested meetings with the politicians that hold the violence against women portfolio:

1.What are your party’s major priorities for addressing violence against women and their children?

2. What does your party see as the major challenges in addressing violence against women and their children?

3. Given that ending violence against women and girls requires long-term investment and a sustained approach, will your party continue to commit to the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and Their Children 2010-22?

4. What funding commitment is your party making to address and prevent violence against women and their children?

Here’s what they had to say, unedited:

What is the Priorities for Women Project?

The ‘Priorities for Women‘ project encourages women to vote independently, effectively and in an informed manner; it is a joint National Women’s Alliances project led by Equality Rights Alliance.

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Budget Review 2013-14: Stronger, Smarter, Fairer…?

The budget announcements under personal safety of women and children (National Plan) for 2013-14 include $44 million:

  • $5.2 million over 5 years for the establishment and operation of the Foundation to Prevent Violence against Women and their Children
  • $7.6 million over 3 years to continue and extend DV-Alert training program
  • $28.5 million to June 2017 to continue and expand 1800RESPECT, enabling an increase in the number of counsellors for the service, translation of online materials and online community for workers to access specialist professional support
  • $3 million over 3 years to dedicated research stream on perpetrator interventions through the National Centre of Excellence to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children

Other funding announcements that relate or could potential have an impact on preventing violence against women and their children include:

  • $434.1 million over 4 years for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.  This includes $45 million to provide expert services to help support survivors
  • $0.5 million  between 2012-13 in grants for advocacy, research, training, and service provision for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
  • $10.3 million over 4 years, for Community Legal Centres and $42 million over 2 years for Legal Assistance Services
  • $21.4 million, over 4 years to the Fair Work Commission to provide a legal remedy for victims of workplace bullying
  • $4.6 million over four years to establish the Andrew Fisher Applied Policy Institute for Ageing
  • Funding between 2012-2013 for sexual assault counselling in remote NT areas as part of the “mobile outreach services plus”
  •  Major internet service providers (ISPs) will be required to block child abuse websites on the INTERPOL ‘worst of’ child abuse list

Read more in AWAVA’s full media release on the positives and areas to strengthen or focus on for addressing all forms of violence against women and girls: AWAVA 2013-14 Budget Media Release

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First Progress Report on National Plan

The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) have announced the online publication of the first Progress Report to the Council of Australian Governments on the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022.

Comments from FaHCSIA:

“This report is the first in a series of progress reports to the Council of Australian Governments and the general public on our efforts to reduce violence against women and their children.  It details the actions taken and progress made by Commonwealth, state and territory governments and the non-government sector during the National Plan’s first two years of implementation, from 2010 – 2012. 

The report shows that, although there is more to be done, we have made a significant amount of progress in the past two years.  Your commitment to this work and your input to the development of this report are very much appreciated.

We look forward to continuing to work with you to build on these achievements”

 

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Protecting Domestic Violence as a Protected Attribute

AWAVA joined 96 other organisations, including many of our member organisations and Friends & Supporters, in calling on the Government to pass the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012 through parliament by the end of June this year and welcoming the additional protected attributes suggested in the recommendations made by the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee. 

See the letter here: Joint NGO letter to Attorney-General

AWAVA also issued a Media Release: Protecting Domestic Violence As A Protected Attribute

AWAVA Call to Action

We need your help to make sure that the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012 is heard this parliamentary sitting.  The Bill’s passage is essential to secure the status of being a survivor or victim of domestic violence as a protected attribute in discrimination cases.

What we want you to do:

  • Call your local MP and other members now and cover the points in this letter or
  • Drop a personalised version of this letter into your local MP’s office or
  • Email the attached personalised version of this letter to your local member and other members and follow-up with a phone call to check it is received
  • Pass on the letter to your networks to send to their members

This is a local issue, there will be women in constituencies and clients seen at local support services that are facing discrimination and who would greatly benefit from this much-needed protection.

You can also:

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Media Release: Protecting Domestic Violence As A Protected Attribute

How will we now protect survivors and victims of domestic violence from the discrimination we know they face in the workplace and in accessing safe, secure, long-term accommodation?

The Attorney General, Mark Dreyfus QC, has just announced that the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012 will be on hold, missing a once-in-a-decade opportunity to introduce much-needed protections for survivors and victims of domestic violence.  The Government will be introducing the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Intersex Status) Bill to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex people from discrimination in Commonwealth laws, which is obviously welcomed, but the protections must go much further.  Read the Government media release

AWAVA are very supportive of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012 and are extremely disappointed that the recommendation to include the status of being a  survivor/victim of domestic violence as a protected attribute stands and falls with the Bill

“We have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to make a real difference to women who are currently experiencing, or have experienced, domestic and family violence by including the status of being a survivor/victim of domestic violence as a protected attribute in the consolidated Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination (HRAD) Bill 2012.  Not taking this opportunity to provide a much-needed protection and support to women is an absolute travesty.” 

“How do we protect Australia’s most vulnerable women if there is no specific legislative protection from the discrimination we know they still face in the workplace and when seeking safe, secure and long-term accommodation? If we can include protections in the Fair Work Act and workplace indicators, why not in our discrimination laws? We know that this is absolutely needed for the safety and security of women and their children to find their way out, and stay out of,abusive relationships.” – Julie Oberin, Chair of AWAVA

Read AWAVA’s full Media Release here

 

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“A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women” Media Release: IWD 2013

“We need to keep our promise to women and children who are victims or survivors of any form of violence against women, to end that violence. Globally, nationally, locally we must take responsibility, each and every one us, and commit to speaking out against violence and changing attitudes and behaviour that allow it to continue unabated. The levels of violence are unacceptable, we are facing a global pandemic, we must act now.”

Julie Oberin, Chair of AWAVA

 

 

Read AWAVA’s International Women’s Day 2013 Media Release which includes AWAVA’s international and national efforts to raise awareness and to end violence against women and girls.

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Position Vacant: Administration and Communications Assistant

The Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) is seeking a suitably qualified Administration and Communications Assistant to provide administrative, organisational, and communication support.

 

On a day-to-day basis the Administration and Communications Assistant will undertake administrative, organisational and communication tasks as directed and supervised by the Program Manager. Regular activities include providing logistical and organisational support to the AWAVA Chairperson and staff (currently Program Manager) and volunteers, responding to emails and phone calls, updating AWAVA’s social media platforms, updating AWAVA’s Website, developing AWAVA’s weekly e-bulletin, developing  communications materials, data entry, filing and recording, updating and maintaining contact registers, scheduling meetings and appointments, organising and taking accurate minutes of meetings, preparing draft minutes and circulating the final copies to attendees after clearance, managing membership enquiries and data bases, organising travel, accommodation and associated requirements for AWAVA delegates, event management for face-to-face meetings which require venue and equipment hire and catering, assist in submission preparation, including cost estimates and  budgeting information, meeting deadlines and managing time well, communicating verbally and in writing to a variety of stakeholders. Not all duties in the position description are required each week.

 

The position is directly responsible to National Chair of WESNET through the AWAVA Program Manager

 

See http://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/Members/WESNET/administration-and-communications-assistant for more information!




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