Aboriginal Organisation Development and Training Advisor

Department: Northern CPPYJ
- Location: Haberfield, NSW, AU, 2045
- Custom Field 4: 78213

**Aboriginal Organisation Development and Training Advisor,**

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

- **Location: Haberfield/Hybrid role with travel requirements**:

- **Clerk Grade 7/8, Salary ($113,574 - $125,720 pa), plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**
- This position is open to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people group only_

**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 including services outside of Youth Justice.

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**
- Develop and maintain relationships with the Aboriginal community and key stakeholders to successfully deliver programs
- Work with managers, teams and individuals to identify gaps and learning / development needs and recognise opportunities for interventions to improve capability and performance of individuals and teams.
- Review and evaluate training and development programs, events and services and implement continuous improvement strategies to ensure key Departmental objectives are delivered and / or to provide a sustainable and capable workforce and a high-performance culture.
- 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.
- Contribute to the design, development, implementation and evaluation of capability development strategies and work with others to deliver / demonstrate measurable improvements in workplace performance.
- Provide 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.
- Evaluate and report on the outcomes of events / programs / services and benchmark against other relevant comparisons to ensure we have current, evidence based and appropriate offerings, including resubmitting programs for mandated review following accreditation according to the review schedule.
- Prepare correspondence, briefings, reports and analysis on programs, research findings, emerging issues, risks and potential improvement opportunities / solutions.
- 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**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications
- Training and assessment qualification or experience
- Background in the area of practice and program delivery to mandated clients.
- Current drivers licence required
- NSW Working with Children Check
- Extensive and regular travel will be required
- Aboriginality and demonstrated cultural competence sufficient to meet all requirements for an identified role.

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.
- National Criminal History Record Check in accordance with the Disability Inclusion Act 2014

Download the role description.

**What We Offer**

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and develo