Chief Executive Officer

Inaugural Chief Executive Officer

Regional Alliance of Justice Associations (RAJA) Western Australia | Regional engagement required

A rare opportunity to shape an emerging organisation from foundation.

The Regional Alliance of Justice Associations (RAJA) is a new not-for-profit backbone organisation, formed by six regional Community Legal Centres and place-based services across rural, regional and remote Western Australia. After three years of careful design through the Better Together initiative, RAJA is now incorporating as a standalone entity and seeking its inaugural Chief Executive Officer.

This is a system-level role. The CEO will lead RAJA's establishment as a regional backbone, coordinating across autonomous member organisations and driving reform across three connected agendas: system coordination, collective advocacy, and workforce sustainability.

The inaugural CEO will lead RAJA through its foundational phase: formal incorporation, the build-out of governance and reporting infrastructure, and the operationalisation of RAJA's work across its three strategic pillars.

That work spans:

• System coordination : strengthening integrated, place-based responses across regional services, reducing fragmentation and enabling collective responses to complex justice challenges.
• Integrated advocacy and policy influence : building RAJA's collective regional voice with government, funders and the broader social justice ecosystem, and translating regional evidence into system reform.
• Workforce sustainability and sector disruptio n, leading the response to one of the sector's most pressing challenges, through coordinated workforce strategies, education partnerships and mobility initiatives across the regional network.

We're looking for a senior executive who is energised by building thoughtfully. You'll bring experience leading complex organisations, comfort with governance discipline and fiduciary accountability, and a track record of building credibility with government, funders and partner organisations.

Beyond that, we're more interested in disposition than checklist. The successful candidate is likely to be politically aware, structurally minded, and a genuine collaborator, able to lead without dominating in a peer-of-peers environment. Experience across community sector, justice, regional service delivery, workforce reform, alliance or federated structures, and impact measurement will all be valued.

What matters most is authentic commitment to access to justice for Rural, Regional and Remote communities, and the patience and pragmatism to do the foundational work of building a new entity well.

RAJA has been three years in the making. Member organisations have done careful preparatory work and the structure is ready. The successful candidate will leave a lasting structural imprint on regional access to justice in Western Australia.

For a confidential conversation about the role, and to receive a full candidate pack, contact Kirsten Pitt-Nash, Tribed Consulting — ***email_hidden***

We particularly welcome conversations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates, candidates with connection to Aboriginal-led service delivery, and candidates from regional and remote Western Australia.