Assistant Director Student and Teacher Engagement

**Assistant Director Student and**
**Teacher Engagement**
**Executive level 1**

This is an Affirmative Measures opportunity**
This position will be filled using the Affirmative Measure provision, which allows for the
targeted recruitment of Indigenous Australians into the Australian Public Service. The vacancy
is only open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. The filling of this employment
opportunity is intended to constitute an Affirmative Measure under section 8(1) of the Racial
Discrimination Act 1975.

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**Our Journey**
AIATSIS has a proud identity as Australia’s only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led
national cultural institution that celebrates, educates, and inspires people from all walks of life
to connect with the rights, knowledge, cultures and stories of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples. We play a vital role in developing deeper and shared understandings of
our Nation’s history and future on Australia’s truth-telling journey, working towards collective
healing.

In 2024, AIATSIS celebrates our 60th anniversary and reflects on our evolution as an
organisation during that time. Over the next five years, our operating environment will continue
to change, and we must position ourselves to respond to this change.

**Our Vision**
To create a world in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights, knowledge,
cultures and stories are recognised, respected, celebrated and valued.

**Our Purpose**
We are the only national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural institution solely
dedicated to telling the story of Australia’s First Nations peoples.

We collect, steward and appropriately share Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’
knowledge through our collection, our leadership in research and our network of collaborations
and partnerships by:

- Creating opportunities for everyone to encounter, engage with and be transformed by

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ rights, knowledge, cultures and stories.
- Enhancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural vitality; and
- Shaping our national narrative.

Our functions are established under the _Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait _
- Islander Studies Act 1989_.

AIATSIS is a statutory authority under the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth) and a Corporate
Commonwealth entity under the PGPA Act.

AIATSIS employees are employed under the Public Service Act 1999, with terms and conditions
of employment as set out in the AIATSIS Enterprise Agreement.

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR STUDENT AND TEACHER
ENGAGEMENT

Vacancy Information

Job Reference 271_12/24

Classification Executive level 1

No. of vacancies 1

Salary $110,115 - $120,025

Group Research and Education

Area Education

Employment Status Ongoing

Hours Full time

Close Date 11.30pm, Sunday 02 February 2025

Contact Person Sara Tomkins
02 6129 3966

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**About the Group**
The purpose of the Research and Education Group is to define, lead, produce, share and
support cutting edge research and learning by, with, and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples. The Group supports an annual flagship AIATSIS Summit and connects
AIATSIS with universities and the wider research sector to coordinate and influence research
agendas.

**About the Program Area**
The Education Team sits within the Research and Education Group. Through the AIATSIS
Education Strategy, the Education team strives to influence what children learn at school about
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia and support educators to teach confidently. The
key activities the team undertakes are developing and delivering culturally responsive
professional learning for teachers, creating culturally safe curriculum resources mapped onto
the Australian Curriculum, and developing a cutting-edge schools program.

**Role Summary**
The Assistant Director Student and Teacher Engagement will lead the development and
implementation of an AIATSIS Education schools program. They will also oversee the
development and delivery of professional learning workshops and resources for educators
around culturally responsive teaching. The Assistant Director Student and Teacher Engagement
will manage a small team that will initiate and develop these projects as well engage with
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and educational stakeholders, including
students and teachers nationally.

**Key Responsibilities**
Key responsibilities of the role include:

- lead the development and delivery of a cutting-edge schools program grounded in truth
- telling, including developing a world-leading, evidence-based schools program to be
available from day one of Ngurra: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isla