Indigenous Liaison Officer

APS Level 6
- Perth, WA
- $98,105 - $107,880

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We enable access to quality skills, training and employment to support Australians to find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces - supporting individuals and our nation to prosper.

As part of this commitment, the Department is focussed on building organisational capability and marshalling professional expertise on how we better support Aboriginal and Torren Straight Islander peoples in employment services, as well as First Nations organisations that support participants in employment services.

**The Role**
The Western Australia State Office within the Workforce Australia Provider Support Branch is responsible for service delivery management of the government’s employment and skills agenda, with a focus on appropriate placed-based responses.

The State Office is responsible for program and contract management of employment and skills service providers, regional and place-based strategies, programs, and initiatives that respond to local labour market needs and industry and employer focussed initiatives that respond to workforce shortages and seasonal labour needs.

The Indigenous Service Officer role on offer in the State Office is a unique and exciting opportunity to shape and influence policy, generate insights, and to inspire the capabilities and mindsets needed to strengthen a partnership approach to our work. The role will contribute to meaningful initiatives that genuinely matter to First Nations people while connecting with the diverse and vibrant cultural fabric of the state. It is an opportunity to utilise your cultural competency to play an important role in shaping employment services to be more culturally competent and provide better services to First Nations Australians.

Reporting to the Director, the Indigenous Service Officer is responsible for engaging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and networks and business to better capture Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ perspectives and provide advice to the Director to enhance servicing in provider performance frameworks, assurance activities and evaluation of employment services.
The role will be a valued member of the State Office team to support engagement activities as well as representing the State Office in a professional context.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Core responsibilities of the Indigenous Service Officer include:

- The ability to undertake a wide range of stakeholder consultations with First Nations people in a culturally competent and appropriate way.
- Provide advice and cultural expertise across a broad range of activities including performance frameworks, assurance activities and evaluation of employment services.
- Promote a healthy and safe workplace environment, model ethical behaviour in accordance with APS Code of Conduct and APS Values.
- Demonstrate an understanding of metro and regional Western Australia in a First nations context and develop strong stakeholder relationships and gather intelligence to influence policy direction and identify potential place-based servicing options.
- Represent the WA State Office and the Department in a professional context at forum’s, meetings, presentations etc.

**Qualifications and Education**
- A driver’s licence is essential.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide up to a one-page summary (no more than 500 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

**Please refer to the Job Information Pack for more information about the role.**

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