Team Leader

**Team Leader - Aboriginal Heritage Resilience and Integration**
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**10L6**

**Primary Location** WA-Perth - Inner-John Tonkin Water Centre - Leederville

**Organization** Aboriginal Affairs
- **Create a best practice Aboriginal Heritage management system**:

- **Integrate best practice into current and future business processes**:

- **Permanent opportunity - $123,176 plus Super**

**This position is pursuant of Section 50(d) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984, the occupant of this position must be of Australian Aboriginal descent.**

**Where can water take you?**

**Advancing your career will advance our community too.**

Aboriginal people have been the custodians of the natural environment for over 60,000 years. We have much to learn from them about our land, waterways and communities in order to protect our most precious resource.

Through our Reconciliation Action Plan, we are committed to creating meaningful employment and training pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across all roles and levels. For us, it is important that our people are representative of our communities in which we live and work.

We know that water is essential for our future and the giver of life. In every Water Corporation role, you’ll have the chance to develop a career and help your community. We seek people who want to make a change for the better.

**About the Aboriginal Heritage & Native Title Section**

Our purpose is to ensure all Aboriginal cultural heritage issues and Native Title rights are managed in a culturally appropriate and sensitive manner. We empower the business so that the impacts that our activities can have on cultural heritage and Native Title, are fully identified, understood and wherever possible avoided as part of planning and operations.

We provide the business with a positive centre of excellence that delivers a high-level quality of customer service through being a highly agile and functioning Section.

The Aboriginal Heritage and Native Title Section comprises of three teams
- **Aboriginal Heritage & Native Title Management -** Implements and governs the frameworks to ensure Aboriginal Heritage and Native Title requirements and expectations are understood and managed as part of our activities.
- **Aboriginal Heritage & Native Title Strategy - **Provides strategic advice to the business to ensure that Native Title and Aboriginal Heritage expectations and agreement obligations are meet while identifying and influencing mutuality beneficial opportunities for Traditional Owners and Water Corporation.
- **Aboriginal Heritage Resilience & Integration** - Designs methodologies and frameworks for a whole of business approach to Aboriginal Heritage management. Integrates these methodologies into current and future business processes.

**About the **Aboriginal Heritage Resilience & Integration **Team.**

The newly created Aboriginal Heritage Resilience and Integration team will be responsible for creating a best practice Aboriginal Heritage management system. The team will design the methodologies and frameworks for a whole of business approach to Aboriginal Heritage management. The Aboriginal Heritage management system will align with our cooperate strategy (Thrive 2035), our Aboriginal engagement strategy, legislative changes, and community expectations. The team will also integrate these methodologies into current and future business processes.

The team will comprise of the following new roles
- Team Leader - Aboriginal Resilience & Integration
- Senior Advisor - Aboriginal Resilience & Integration
- Advisor - Aboriginal Resilience & Integration

**What the role will offer you**

Join the team in Leederville, a trendy suburb, 5 minutes from Perth CBD - and only a 5-minute walk from the nearest train station. You’ll support and develop a cohesive team of people to do their best work.

This is a permanent, full-time role with flexible working arrangements, which means you’ll have more time for the important things in life. No explanations required.

Being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander decent is a genuine occupational qualification for this position within the meaning of section 50(d) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984. Therefore, only applicants of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background will be considered.

**What you’ll do**:

- Lead the design and delivery of a ‘whole of business’ approach to Aboriginal heritage management
- Identify and the deliver efficiencies in process, systems and ensure the Corporation operates in accordance with best practice regarding Aboriginal Heritage and Native Title
- Ensure that business operations strategy, planning, policies and systems development considers Aboriginal Heritage and Native Title protection
- Build platforms to empower and train staff across the Corporation on Aboriginal Heritage protection
- Ensure delivery of Aboriginal Heritage Resilience and Integration team accountabilities and objectives by