Aboriginal Organisation Development and Training

**Aboriginal Organisation Development and Training Advisor -**

**YASMAR,**

**Youth Justice**
- **Temporary, Full time up to 2 years**:

- **Location: Haberfield **(flexible working arrangements may be considered i.e other locations if it can be co-located at an existing Youth Justice community office & some working from home may be possible)
- **Clerk Grade 7/8, Salary ($101,947- 112,849 pa), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**_This role is open only to male Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons, Australia’s First Nations people._**

**Your role**

Design and deliver quality training and development programs, particularly programs aimed at Aboriginal Young People and ensure they are a key link between the unit and Aboriginal stakeholders at all levels across the state.

The role provides services, solutions and identifies training and development needs; contribute to the formulation of programs, plans & services to ensure managers and staff have the skills, tools and capabilities to perform their roles safely, professionally and with cultural competence in a child related context.

This role is committed to building a workforce that better reflects the perspectives of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities we serve.

**What you’ll do**
- Design and deliver quality training and development programs, particularly programs aimed at Aboriginal Young People and ensure they are a key link between the unit and Aboriginal stakeholders at all levels across the state.
- Carry out the role of program owner or content owner/ reviewer where assigned, particularly all Aboriginal Programs, ensuring that all aspects relating to the design, scheduling, delivery, conduct and recording of the program regardless of venue is managed successfully within required standards, goals and timeframes and ensure work always meets the required standard and is delivered appropriately on time and in budget.
- Provide services, solutions and identifies training and development needs; contribute to the formulation of programs, plans & services to ensure managers and staff have the skills, tools and capabilities to perform their roles safely, professionally and with cultural competence in a child related context.
- Providing advice and solutions to management as they seek to identify skill / performance gaps and seek to ensure that the required capabilities and ongoing development needs of their staff are available and delivered in a quality, cost effective manner.
- Represent the unit at Aboriginal staff conferences and dedicate time to collaborate with internal and external Aboriginal stakeholders to ensure currency with key issues and to ensure that the management is aware of practices across the regions and is in a position to quality control program deployment.

**What we’re looking for**
- Aboriginality and demonstrated cultural competence sufficient to meet all requirements for an identified role.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications/ training and assessment qualification or experience and background in the area of practice and program delivery to mandated clients.
- Current driver’s licence
- Working with Children Check
- Extensive and regular travel will be required

As an Identified role, this role is open only to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons, Australia’s First Nations people.

Where a position is identified, an applicant’s race is a genuine occupational qualification and authorised by Section 14(d) of the _Anti-Discrimination Act 1977_.

There are two alternatives to confirming your Aboriginality, one of which must be uploaded to be considered for the role as follows. **Either will be accepted**:
Confirmation of Aboriginality form

or

Written confirmation from 2-3 Aboriginal organisations within the community in which you live/work, which addresses the three criteria listed below:

- is of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, and
- identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, and
- is accepted as a such by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

Download the role description.

**We do work that really matters**

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

**Are you ready to join us?**
- Discuss how you have had to work with a range of stakeholders to develop a cultural training program / development initiative. What was it, how did you go about it and what was the outcome?
- Discuss the most challenging cultural initiative that you led? What made it challenging and how did you handle it? What were the outcomes for the target audience? Did you achieve everything you wer