About the role
Ready to Make a Real Difference? Join Us as an Education Specialist in Bendigo!
(Part-time position)
Are you passionate about transforming young lives through education? Are you looking for a meaningful role where your skills create real, lasting change?
We’re looking for a dedicated and dynamic Education Specialist to join our passionate team at MacKillop Education in Bendigo.
At MacKillop Education, our mission is simple but powerful: to champion educational equity and ensure that every vulnerable and disengaged young person has the opportunity to succeed. In this role, you won’t just teach — you’ll inspire, support, and empower.
As an Education Specialist, you’ll work closely with young people in Therapeutic Residential Care (TRC) settings — students who’ve often faced significant barriers to education. You'll build strong, trusted relationships and create learning environments that are safe, inclusive, and trauma-informed.
This is your chance to:
- Reignite a young person’s belief in their potential.
- Collaborate with allied professionals to tailor support strategies that meet each learner’s unique needs.
- Be part of a passionate, purpose-driven team that values compassion, resilience, and impact.
Who we’re looking for:
Someone with experience working with disengaged youth (12–17 years), especially those in out-of-home care. You’re empathetic, adaptable, and ready to meet students where they are — academically and emotionally.
This is a Permanent Part-Time (0.6 EFT - 45.6 hours per fortnight) opportunity based in Bendigo within our MacKillop Education and Engagement Programs. The position reports to the Education Specialist Team Leader.
Key Selection Criteria:
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Appropriate experience and/or qualifications in education.
- A knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal culture and values and an awareness of the current issues faced by Aboriginal children, young people and their families.
- Experience working with children and young people who are disengaged or at risk of disengaging from education.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively within a team (e.g. colleagues, professionals and other stakeholders).
Please address the full Key Selection Criteria outlined in the PD as part of your application.
For a full position listing, please click APPLY. The Position Description is available for review at the bottom of the page.
For more information, please contact:
Brona Walshe at [email protected] or on 03 8317 9747.
Our Offer:
- Generous salary and leave entitlements in line with the Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2022.
- Salary packaging up to $18,500 (helps increase your take home pay).
- Discounted workplace health and fitness program available to you and your family.
- Paid on-site training that contributes to your professional development.
- Regular supervision.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – free and confidential counselling, coaching and emotional support for work and personal challenges.
Key Requirements:
- Valid and current Driver’s Licence;
- Satisfactory Criminal History Check (paid for by MacKillop);
- Valid Employee Working with Children Check; OR a valid VIT registration
- Valid and current NDIS Workers Screening Check
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Appropriate experience and qualifications in education.
- Experience working with children and young people who are disengaged or at risk of disengaging from education.
- A sound understanding of how trauma impacts on learning.
- Experience in developing, implementing, and reviewing individual education plans.
Please address the full Key Selection Criteria outlined in the PD as part of your application.
For further information about this position, please contact Brona Walshe at [email protected] or on 0400 834 396. We are happy to answer your questions and provide additional information about this exciting opportunity.
MacKillop celebrates and draws strength from diversity and respects the dignity of all people. Every person at MacKillop has the right to be safe and to be treated justly. We value every person’s ability, cultural or linguistic backgrounds, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, intersex status, relationship status, religious or spiritual beliefs, socio-economic status, and age.
It is our goal that MacKillop Family Services continues to evolve as a culturally safe, culturally competent, and welcoming organisation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, families, and communities.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.
Child Safe Standards
MacKillop Education and Engagement Programs are committed to providing child-safe environments. Our programs actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all participants, and all staff are dedicated to protecting individuals from abuse or harm, in line with legal obligations, including adherence to child safe standards.
