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About Women’s Aid

Women’s Aid is a national, feminist organisation working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse. We do this by advocating, influencing, training, and campaigning for effective responses to reduce the scale and impacts of domestic abuse on women and children and providing high quality, specialised, integrated, support services.

Benefits of Working with Women’s Aid

• Annual Leave: Annual leave entitlement is 25 days per annum pro rata.
• Privilege Days: Good Friday and Christmas Eve.
• Pension: Women’s Aid operates a contributory pension scheme, which all employees may join after 6 months in the organisation.
• Maternity Leave: Women's Aid will pay full salary (less Social Welfare benefits) for the period of the 26 weeks paid leave (subject to 1+ year service).
• Parent’s Leave: 7 weeks’ leave topped up to full salary during the first 2 years of a child’s life, or in the case of adoption, within 2 years of the placement of the child with the family for eligible employees.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Women’s Aid provides an extensive employee assistance programme operated by Peninsula.
• VHI: Women’s Aid operates a group VHI scheme, which you may join.
• Death in Service Benefit: Available for all employees to the value of 2 years’ salary.
• Health Services Staffs Credit Union: Employees of Women’s Aid may join the Health Services Staffs Credit Union.
• Trade Union Membership: The staff of Women’s Aid has an option of joining the recognised representative Trade Union Forsa.
• Training Allowance: Annual allowance for staff members to undertake training to enhance skills and expertise (subject to budget availability).
• Travel Supports: Bike-to-work schemes and tax saver commuter tickets.
• Equality and Diversity: Women’s Aid is committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and cultural diversity.

About the High Risk Support Project

The High Risk Support Project (HRSP) provides a multi-agency response to women at high risk of ongoing abuse and homicide from their ex-partners. This unique and innovative project is embedded in Women’s Aid One to One Support Services. The HRSP has developed, since its initiation in 2013, to operate in 2024 across the Greater Dublin area (Dublin Metropolitan Region, D.M.R.), and the ten counties of the Eastern Region, with well-established practices and procedures among key partners.

Women’s Aid partners with An Garda Síochána, Vodafone Foundation, and local domestic abuse services to deliver a coordinated rapid response system for women and families. The High Risk Support Project supports and empowers women to feel safer and to begin rebuilding their lives free of constant fear. Referrals of appropriate candidates for participation in the HRSP are received from the Gardaí or other domestic abuse services with whom Women’s Aid has an established Memorandum of Understanding for this purpose.

Women’s Aid is generously funded by the Department of Justice to Co-ordinate this unique project.

About the Role

Title: High Risk Support Project Southern Region Project Leader

• Reference: WA-HRSP-STH-PL24
• Reports to: High Risk Support Project National Coordinator
• Contract: Two years (24 months) which may be extended subject to project review and available funding.
• Hours: 35 hours per week, excluding lunch breaks, during core office hours.
• Location: Place of work will primarily be based from home, subject to necessary connectivity, however there will be a requirement to attend the Women’s Aid headquarters at 5 Wilton Place, Dublin 2 for a minimum of two days per month during the initial induction period and one day per month after this. The role will require regular travel throughout the Southern Region which includes counties: Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Clare and Tipperary.
• Salary: €48,806.00

Primary Purpose of the Role:

The Southern Region Project Leader will have responsibility for delivering and overseeing the High Risk Support Project in the Southern Region, (which includes counties, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Clare), developing and maintaining strong partnerships with domestic abuse services and the Gardai, and ongoing contact with service users from referral to case closure. The H.R.S.P Southern Region Project Leader will not replace a woman’s designated Outreach Support Worker; the project will complement existing support work provided in order to enhance her safety.

Please see Recruitment Pack and Application Form attached below.

How to Apply

Application Form: Application forms, clearly referenced WA-HRSP-STH-PL24 in the subject line, should be sent by email only to laurie.dool@womensaid.ie

CVs will not be considered.

Closing date: 5 p.m. May 1st, 2024.
Interview schedule: It is anticipated that first round interviews will be held during the week beginning May 6th 2024.
The successful candidate is expected to start in post in June 2024.