Aboriginal Organisation Development and Training

Division: Northern CPPYJ- Location: Haberfield, NSW, AU, 2045- Req ID: 48053**Aboriginal Organisation Development and Training Advisor - YASMAR, Youth Justice**
- **Ongoing Full-Time**:

- **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 ($99,431 - $110,064 pa), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**About us**

The Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) is the lead agency under the Stronger Communities Cluster. DCJ works to enable everyone's right to access justice and help for families through early intervention and inclusion, with benefits for the whole community. Stronger Communities is focussed on achieving safe, just, inclusive and resilient communities by providing services that are effective and responsive to community needs. For the first time, the creation of DCJ and Stronger Communities provides an opportunity to focus on prevention and early intervention across both the social welfare and justice systems.

Youth Justice is a dynamic organisation in a period of exciting change. Youth Justice supervises and cares for young people in the community and in detention centres in NSW. The division provides diversionary and community-based services, as well as custodial services in detention centres for young people on remand and on control order.

**About the role**

Reporting to Manager Organisation Development & Training - Community your duties include but are not limited to
- 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.
- 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.

**Essential Requirements**
- 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
- Extensive and regular travel will be required
- It is an essential requirement of the role that successful applicants are fully vaccinated and able to provide acceptable proof of vaccination status.

**This position is open to Female Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants only.**
- Documented verification of Aboriginality.

The division will accept proof of Aboriginality confirming the following:

- You are an aboriginal person of Aboriginal descent.
- You identify as being Aboriginal; and
- You are accepted as such by the community in which you live

An acceptable form of documented verification is a “Confirmation of Aboriginality” letter, provided to you by a local Aboriginal organisation that includes a common seal from that organisation.

**About you**
- Are a female Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons who is culturally aware and responsive to the needs of Aboriginal people and communities
- Taking interest / ownership of cultural programs aimed to assist Youth Justice community staff understand how to work with female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients and other cultural groups.
- Experience or strong knowledge in practice implementation and evaluation.
- Has a commitment to carry out extensive and regular travel as required
- Capability to learn and deploy training either face to face or online.
- High level of cultural sensitivity and insight into women’s business.
- Does this sound like you ?_

For any technical support please contact the Recruitment team on 1800 810 316 Option 4 or the Talent Acquisition Officer - Lisa Smith on 02 8688 1119

1. Answer the two pre-screening questions below - we are looking for you to demonstrate your competency in this focus capability.
- 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