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• Draw on lived experience to help co-create a safe environment for CARM (Culturally and Racially Marginalized) peoples experiencing distress
• Full Time, Fixed term 12-month role
• Geelong Location

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds.

Mind Australia is one of Australia’s largest providers of community-managed psychosocial services, supporting people experiencing mental health and wellbeing challenges to find help, hope and purpose in their lives. Operating for more than 45 years and employing more than 1,300 staff around Australia, Mind is a leading employer of people with lived experience of mental health challenges, recognising their unique ability to connect with and motivate clients and guide recovery.

About the role

The Lived Experience Residential Service will provide free short-term support in a home-like setting for people experiencing mental health crisis and distress. This innovative trial service is designed and run by a highly experienced and skilled peer workforce.  The Equity and Cultural Wellbeing Coordinator will draw on their lived experience to help co-create a safe enough environment for CARM peoples experiencing distress.

We are seeking a compassionate Lived Experience Equity and Cultural Wellbeing Coordinator for a 12-month fixed term, fulltime opportunity in the Geelong area. You will work to to foster cultural awareness, develop and support mechanisms for cultural safety, promote intersectionality, and in reach to communities most harmed by mental health services. This role will collaborate and focus on relationships, building connections within the community, and championing community voice within the service.

Key responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for collaboration with intersectional communities (including First Nations, Culturally and Racially Marginalized, and other marginalised communities) and broader sectors to advance equity, inclusion, and service development on social justice issues.
•  Work to form pathways and develop relationships with external stakeholders to help connect with communities.  
• Provide advice and guidance on Lived Experience and Intersectional Equity issues to all relevant areas of the service and more broadly if required. 
• Draw on lived expertise approaches informed by a commitment to social change and human rights to help shape the delivery of lived experience workforce development strategies.
• Support intersectional and culturally diverse strategies that build capacity of the LERS team in line with evidence-informed approaches.
• Actively embed cultural safety, responsiveness, and humility mechanisms to create spaces where intersectional communities can feel seen, valued, and heard.

What you’ll bring

• Lived or Living Experience of intersectional identities, specifically CARM communities and lived experience of mental distress
• Completion of Intentional Peer Support Core and/or Advanced training. 
• Experience working in, or closely with, intersectional communities and/or broader sectors, to advance intersectionality and equity, or organisational development on related social justice issues.
• Proven experience designing, delivering, and evaluating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs alongside intersectional and marginalised communities.
• Strong capability in cultural bridging, cultural safety, and humility to build trust, respect, and meaningful collaboration.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to coordinate groups of people and create connections and build relationships and community.

Benefits

• Salary packaging up to $15,899 p.a. allows you to allocate a portion of your pre-tax income to cover living expenses (e.g. rent, mortgage, child care, car leasing expenses etc.)
• Option to access Meal and Entertainment allowance up to $2,650 p.a. via Salary Packaging.
• Generous leave entitlements including 8 weeks paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, and Monthly Accumulated Day off (Full time employees).
• Fitness Passport - Access to our corporate health and fitness program, providing you and family with access to a wide choice of fitness facilities.

Interested?

To apply visit Mind Careers - reference number 498857. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Sunday 11 January 2026. Please contact the person below for more information.

Doyle Barrow – Senior Lived Experience Project Manager
Doyle.Barrow@mindaustralia.org.au

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require any support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please contact us at hr@mindaustralia.org.au

Position Description

 PD Lived Experience Equity and Cultural Wellbeing Coordinator (LERS) 20251219.pdf

The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening Check.