Aboriginal Community Engagement Project Officer

**_Aboriginal Community Engagement Project Officer (Identified)_**

**Employment Type**: Full Time, Permanent
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 2
**Remuneration**: $109,857.00 - $129,624.00 per annum, plus superannuation and 17.5% leave loading
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Location**: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards, Sydney
**Requisition ID**: REQ616734

- **Be part of an organisation that makes a difference in cancer control in NSW**
- **Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply**

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Where you’ll be working_**

The Cancer Institute NSW is the NSW Government’s cancer control agency, established to lessen the impact of cancer across the state.

Working at the Cancer Institute NSW means joining a team of committed and dedicated staff who are proud to be a part of the Institute’s purpose of overseeing and accelerating the effectiveness of cancer control in NSW.

The Cancer Institute is a collaborative working environment that encourages diversity and inclusion in how we work and the way we work together. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Greater consideration will be given to suitable applicants, in order to improve access to employment and career opportunities (GSE Rule 26).

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What you’ll be doing_**

The Aboriginal Community Engagement Project Officer plays a key role in strengthening relationships, while coordinate and supporting the development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of a range of Aboriginal-focused projects that aim to achieve equity of cancer outcomes at a system level for the New South Wales State's Aboriginal communities, organisations, and services to improve cancer outcomes.

This role will develop and maintain internal and external relationships with stakeholders including cancer services, the Aboriginal Health and Medical research Council of NSW (AH&MRC), Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services, Local Health Districts, Primary Health Networks and non-government organisations to drive the improvement of cancer outcomes of Aboriginal communities.

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Remuneration/Benefits_**

In addition to base salary:

- 12% superannuation
- 4 weeks annual leave (plus 17.5% leave loading)
- 10 days sick leave
- 40 hours per week which include accrual of monthly Allocated Day Off (ADO) x 12 per year.

Access to:

- Generous Flexible Working practices
- Fitness Passport: a membership card for NSW government employees that gives you and your family unlimited access to 400+ gyms and other facilities at one low price.
- Novated car leasing arrangement
- Salary sacrificing to superannuation.

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- Your resume (maximum five pages)
- A covering letter addressing the Essential Requirements, as outlined in the Role Description
- A response to the Pre-screening questions, as outlined below.

**_ Essential requirements_**

- Must be of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent through parentage, identification as being Aboriginal and being accepted in the community as such under section 14 (d) of the NSW Antidiscrimination Act (1977), with knowledge and experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
- Demonstrated commitment to improving health outcomes for Aboriginal communities, with the ability to work respectfully and effectively with Aboriginal peoples, organisations, and communities to support culturally safe and responsive cancer prevention initiatives.
- Operates with autonomy regarding day-to-day activities and accountable for managing competing priorities; own workloads, multiple projects with diverse group of internal/external stakeholders.
- Responsible negotiating and consulting with identified stakeholders and for the delivery of projects within agreed timeframes, budgets and quality standards.
- Exercises discretion and judgement in providing quality advice and responding to enquiries and correspondence, escalating any contentious issues to manager.

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Pre-screening questions_**

- **_ How do you approach engaging with Aboriginal communities to ensure your work is culturally grounded, respectful, and led by community priorities?_**
- **_ Can you share an example of how you’ve built and maintained strong relationships with Aboriginal stakeholders or communities over time, and how you ensured accountability back to those communities?_**

**_ Interested?_**

For more information:

- Click here for the Role Description

**Applications Close: Thursday, 13**th** November 2025 at 11:59PM**

The CORE+4 Values define what is important to the Cancer Institute NSW and our employees.
Our values are: Collaboration, Openness, Respect, Empowerment, Strategic, Supportive, Innovative and Flexible.

The Cancer Institute NSW is unable to offer salary packaging. Salaries will be negotiated commensurate to experience and qualifications of the role.

To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

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