At Life Without Barriers, we deliver inclusive, trauma-informed services that support children, young people, families, and carers to thrive.
From foster care, family support, residential care and youth programs, we work alongside communities to create safe, supportive environments where every child and young person can reach their potential.
Join us to discover a purpose you can wrap your heart around!
Employment Type: Full-time Max-term 12 months
Location: Any where across Victoria (remote opportunity)
Benefits: Tool of Trade vehicle with fuel card
Do you thrive on building relationships, networking, and connecting with people? Are you passionate about your community and motivated by making a real difference?
We are looking for a proactive, energetic Carer Engagement Officer to help grow our network of foster carers across Victoria. This isn't a desk-bound recruitment role—it's a community-focused position where you'll be out meeting people, creating partnerships, attending events, and inspiring everyday Australians to become foster carers.
This role would suit someone with experience in:
- Fundraising
- Sales or Business Development
- Community Engagement
- Recruitment
- Marketing
- Membership or Donor Development
- Customer Relationship Management
- Community Services
If you're confident starting conversations, building trust, and creating opportunities, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Role
As a Carer Engagement Officer, you'll be responsible for increasing community awareness of foster care and generating enquiries from prospective foster carers through proactive community engagement and relationship building.
You'll establish meaningful partnerships with local businesses, schools, sporting clubs, councils, health services, faith groups and community organisations, creating opportunities to promote foster care and inspire people to take the first step towards becoming carers.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working autonomously, thrives on building connections and is motivated by achieving meaningful outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain strong relationships with community organisations and key stakeholders.
- Develop innovative strategies to attract prospective foster carers.
- Attend community events, expos, markets and networking opportunities.
- Deliver engaging presentations and information sessions about foster care.
- Generate recruitment enquiries through community engagement and partnership development.
- Manage and nurture enquiries from prospective carers throughout the recruitment journey.
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure a positive and supportive experience for prospective carers.
- Monitor recruitment activities and contribute to regional recruitment targets.
- Identify emerging community engagement opportunities and implement local recruitment initiatives.
Learn more about Life Without Barriers' services for Children, Young People & Families here: https://www.lwb.org.au/services/child-youth-and-family/
Skills & Experience
- Tertiary qualifications in marketing, sales, recruitment or other relevant field and/or equivalent experience
- Drivers Licence
- Demonstrated experience in a marketing, sales or recruitment role.
- Demonstrated experience in managing competing priorities and to deliver outcomes within agreed timeframes and quality standards
- Demonstrated experience with engaging with people who are caring for children and young people who may be experiencing grief, loss and trauma
- Experience and skills in undertaking child focused assessments and reviews
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and any relevant stated based checks.
How to Apply:
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For general role enquiries contact zina.campbell@lwb.org.au . Please note we do not accept applications to this email.
Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.
Applications close at midnight, Sunday 12th July 2026
We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.