Executive Director Lived Experience

Drive lived experience leadership, innovation and impact

- Based in Melbourne, this is a rare opportunity to join the Executive Team of a highly respected national mental health organisation.
- Drive organisation-wide transformation through lived experience leadership, ensuring lived expertise is embedded across every aspect of Mind Australia.
- Influence mental health policy, practice and reform at a national level, partnering with consumers, carers, government and sector leaders to create lasting impact.

Mind Australia is a leading provider of mental health and wellbeing services, committed to a vision where people and communities have strong mental health and wellbeing.

With people and community first, at Mind we lead with integrity, uphold respect for all, inspire possibility and co-create to shape change together., Mind is continuing to evolve how lived experience shapes the organisation, services and contribution to the mental health sector.

We are seeking an exceptional Executive Director Lived Experience to lead this important program.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Executive Team and Senior Leadership Group, the Executive Director will provide organisation-wide leadership to ensure lived experience, lived expertise, intersectionality, equity and justice are embedded across Mind’s strategy, culture, workforce, governance and service delivery.

This is a highly influential role with sector influence at the intersection of lived experience leadership, organisational transformation, service innovation and mental health reform.

About you

You will be an established and credible lived experience leader with the personal authority,



strategic capability and executive presence to influence an organisation of Mind’s scale and complexity.

Importantly, you will bring publicly disclosed personal/consumer lived experience, together with demonstrated lived expertise and professional experience commensurate with an executive leadership position.

You will have:

- Significant executive leadership experience and a sophisticated understanding of lived experience as a discipline.
- A strong track record of embedding lived experience, co-design and participation into organisational strategy, governance, workforce and service delivery.Deep understanding of peer work and contemporary lived experience practice, including Intentional Peer Support.
- Experience leading organisational or system-level change and influencing senior stakeholders.
- The credibility to work effectively with consumers, families and carers, government, sector leaders, lived experience peaks, researchers and community partners.
- A strong understanding of intersectionality, diversity and inclusion, human rights and social justice.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams and managing budgets and organisational performance.
- Commercial curiosity and the ability to identify opportunities for growth, innovation, research and recent models of service delivery.
- Exceptional communication, influencing and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to represent Mind publicly.

If you are a respected lived experience leader ready to operate at executive level and help shape the next chapter of Mind’s impact, we would welcome your interest.

Ccentric Executive Search has been exclusively retained by Mind Australia to conduct this search. For a confidential discussion about the opportunity or to receive a Candidate Information Pack, please contact:

Pam Lubrainschik, Managing Consultant, on 0452 295 088 or [email protected]

📌 Executive Director Lived Experience (Melbourne)
🏢 Ccentric
📍 Melbourne