Aboriginal Assistant Manager

Your role

The Aboriginal Assistant Manager manages a multidisciplinary team to reduce reoffending of juvenile offenders to reintegrate youth into the community.

Working at a Dubbo Community Office, you will be committed to building a workforce to reflect the perspectives of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

What you’ll do

You will influence, develop, and manage staff and complex client needs in a high demand work environment while adapting to changes to ensure continuous improvement.

Provide support to clients to access services with limited resources and barriers while advocating and creating solutions to meet client needs.

What we’re looking for

• Develop and deliver successful programs with the Aboriginal community and key stakeholders at front of mind.
• Manage and supervise a service delivery team, supporting day to day conferences, case plan reviews and reports, while allocating resources, undertaking performance management, and supporting employee development to contribute to effective service delivery.
• Undertake risk assessments and mitigating client risks posed to the community ensuring employee safety.
• Support effective planning, decision making, quality assurance, record keeping, and CIMS system data integrity.
• Work collaboratively and communicating effectively with employees, managers and non-government stakeholders to implement and communicate changes to ensure employees meet their expectations.

As an Identified role, this position 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 under the exception in 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.

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To apply directly via the DCJ Careers site click here.

For more information and advice on applying for roles at DCJ, visit Careers for Aboriginal people.

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 development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

Want more information?  Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.

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.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply. You will need to attach an up-to-date resume (maximum five pages) and a cover letter (maximum three pages) with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role and answer the following target questions:

1. Provide an example of how you used information from systems to analyse customer service issues and come up with solutions.
2. Provide an example of how you communicate with your team to explain roles, responsibilities and set expectations for outcomes.

Applications close Wednesday, 27 November 2024 at 11:59pm AEDT.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Kimble Appleyard on 0407 068 200 or at kimble.appleyard@dcj.nsw.gov.au.

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please contact Steve Mifsud on 02 9765 4094 or at steve.mifsud@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience, and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers, and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

For more information visit Your recruitment journey on the DCJ website (for all roles except Aboriginal Identified).

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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