Health Translations Project Officer

**Work with us**:
Our organisation is a busy health hub in the middle of Richmond. North Richmond Community Health, which includes the Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health, is a great place to work. You’ll find an environment where staff are inspired through meaningful work and supported by colleagues and management. We prioritise an inclusive and positive working atmosphere at North Richmond Community Health. With flexible working arrangements, we help ensure that people of all circumstances are well-represented in our staff.

As an employee, there are a number of benefits available:

- flexible working arrangements, including purchased leave
- wellbeing policy, with on-site subsidised fitness classes including pilates and personal training, work health checks and social events
- comprehensive and competitive salary packaging options.

We enjoy rich cultural diversity in our workforce. Approximately 55% of our staff were born overseas and over 75% identify with an ethnicity other than Australian. Over 65% of our staff speak languages other than English. We would like to hear from you if you have:

- superior skills in delivering culturally-responsive services in your given field
- keen ability to contribute to a respectful collegiate environment
- can contribute to innovation and service improvement
- effective relationship building skills to foster a harmonious workplace.

**North Richmond Community Health (NRCH) **is committed to making healthcare more accessible and culturally relevant. With Victoria’s first Medically Supervised Injecting Room, NRCH works with community members to support social justice principles which afford all people the right to dignity, respect, and the highest quality of care.

**The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health (CEH)** is a program of North Richmond Community Health. Uniquely, CEH offers expertise in cultural diversity and health, cultural competence, social marketing, cross-cultural communication and consumer participation and health literacy to organisations across Australia.

We assist other organisations to provide a high quality of service to clients from migrant and refugee backgrounds. Our clients include hospitals, government departments, local councils, health centres, community services and higher education providers. We support them with training, social marketing services, advice, resources and information.

The** Health Translations Project Officer (Collection) **(0.4EFT fixed term) will focus on our Health Translations (HT) project. Health Translations is an online library of high-quality, consumer-focussed translated resources that enable equitable access for people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to the Australian health and social services sector through the provision of relevant and reliable information in their first language. Resources such as Health Translations that make health information accessible to non-English speakers are critically important for refugee and migrant communities, as the recent experience of COVID-19 19 demonstrates.

As part of a small team of dedicated professionals, you will manage, maintain, and support the Health Translations project, you will:

- Your role will focus on the collection, and you will share some of the weekly tasks maintaining the database and its key functions.
- Review, edit, publish, and coordinate high-quality and accurate multilingual online content according to the content review schedule, which meets departmental standards.
- You will source, catalogue and publish translated materials as per Editorial Guidelines and that meet the requirements of the Collections policy.
- You will maintain the Editorial Guidelines, add to keywords and thesaurus developed for the collection.

**Key Selection Criteria**

Essential qualifications, attributes and skills include, but are not limited to:

- Demonstrated experience with web publishing using content management and other content production systems.
- Experience working in a community library setting.
- Demonstrated understanding of the public, human services, or community health sector.
- Experience in categorising and indexing resources for the collection.
- Demonstrated experience with web publishing using content management and other content production systems.
- Experience working in a community library setting and categorising and indexing resources for the collection.
- A qualification in information and library studies would be desirable.

We are seeking someone to work 2 days per week, the actual days and hours of work can be negotiated. Hours need not be two full days. This role may suit a person returning to the workforce who need flexibility around school hours.

Please note it is a requirement for all employees of North Richmond Community Health to demonstrate evidence of mandatory immunisations/vaccinations prior to commencement of employment, based on the Immunisation Category their position falls under. This includes **3 doses of the