First Nations Employment and Capability Lead – Sport4All
Position Title: First Nations Employment and Capability Lead – Sport4All
Program: Sport4All
Location: Melbourne/Naarm (hybrid working model)
Employment: Fixed term 12 months (continuation pending funding)
Time Fraction: 1.0 FTE (full time)
Remuneration: $90,000 + super
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Would you like to work for a high-performing team committed to advancing social change through sport?
If you have the skills, experience and desire to create change, apply to be the First Nations Employment and Capability Lead at Sport4All.
- First Nations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Employment and Capability Lead
- Full time First Nations leadership role!
- Lead the growth and development of Sport4All’s First Nations Cultural Capability
- Grow First Nations employment in Sport4All’s National Inclusion Coach Program
- Melbourne/Naarm office location, hybrid work model
- Flexible and inclusive workplace
This is an identified position and is open to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only.
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About Get Skilled Access
Get Skilled Access (GSA) was founded in 2016 by multiple Wheelchair Tennis Grand Slam Champion, Paralympian, and former Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott AO. Our aspiration is inclusion, choice, and control for all people with disability. At GSA, we aim to create a new generation of disability inclusion that is equitable for all.
About Sport4All
The Sport4All (S4A) program employs local Inclusion Coaches into communities to helps sporting clubs and schools to be more accessible and inclusive for people with disability. The program is designed and delivered by Get Skilled Access (GSA).
About the role – First Nations Employment and Capability Lead:
As First Nations Employment and Capability Lead you will be responsible for leading Sport4All’s approach to growing our First Nations employment and improving cultural capability across all our people, programs and processes.
You will design and deliver a program to grow Sport4All’s connection with First Nations organisations and communities in our current and proposed delivery locations, with the goal of ultimately increasing the employment of First Nations people within the Sport4All Inclusion Coach program.
Key responsibilities and activities of the role would include:
First Nations cultural capability development:
- Ensuring that First Nations voices and perspectives are represented in all project decision making
- Co-designing new initiatives to build the cultural capability of Sport4All’s staff, programs, processes
- Identifying opportunities to enhance the cultural safety of existing processes, implementing improvements to support and empower First Nations people and communities engaging with Sport4All
- Establishing and encouraging key cultural learning and development opportunities for all Sport4All staff, promoting culturally inclusive leadership with internal and external stakeholders
First Nations community engagement:
- Leading the development and creation of a national Sport4All First Nations Project Advisory group to ensure ongoing and diverse representation of First Nations voices and perspectives included in Sport4All program implementation
- Establish relationships and partnerships with First Nations people and organisations at national, state and local levels in Sport4All delivery locations
- Review and provide advice on current strategies and approaches to community engagement and Sport4All program delivery
First Nations employment:
- Reviewing Sport4All’s current recruitment processes and identifying opportunities for improved cultural safety
- Implementing improvements to Sport4All’s existing recruitment processes with the goal of increasing First Nations employment in Inclusion Coach roles
- Co-design new strategies to grow Sport4All’s First Nations workforce
Some useful qualities to support you in this role include:
- This is an identified position and is open to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only.
- Ability to build respectful relationships and engage effectively with First Nations people, organisations and communities.
- Understanding of recruitment processes, hiring and onboarding staff
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Organised with the ability to plan, prioritise tasks and meet deadlines
- Ability to delegate effectively and work autonomously.
- A commitment to ongoing learning and development.
Some to extra qualities to support you in this role include:
- Experience in the disability and/or sport sector
What you can expect from working with Get Skilled Access and the Sport4All program
- All abilities friendly flexible working arrangements
- A hybrid work arrangement which offers staff to work from home and from the employer’s location(s)
- Opportunities for Professional development and Training
- A supportive and positive work environment
Conditions of Employment:
- Right to work in Australia
- Current Working with Children Check (employee)
- Subject to a satisfactory National Police Check (must be provided by candidate prior to commencing in role)
As part of our commitment to safety for all, we require all applicants that may work with children to undergo an extensive screening process prior to appointment.
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How to Apply
How to apply?
Would you like to work for a high-performing team committed to advancing social change through sport?
If you have the skills, experience and desire to create change, apply to be the First Nations Employment and Capability Lead at Sport4All!
To apply for this position, please click the link below.
- Please submit your CV/Resume (written, audio or video accepted)
- Please submit a short response to the following question (written, audio or video accepted – maximum 250 words or maximum 2 minutes recording per question):
- Why are you passionate about First Nations and disability inclusion in sport and what attracted you to this role in particular?
Applications close 11.59pm AEST, Sunday 15th September, 2024
If you have any questions after reading the Job Description, please contact Mitch Gourley for a confidential discussion (mitch@sport4all.com.au).
If you experience any technical issues please contact Mitch Gourley (mitch@sport4all.com.au).
GSA is committed to implementing a leading approach to inclusive practices in all of our processes across the organisation. This recruitment process may include any of the following: online application form, phone conversation, face to face or virtual interviews (via Microsoft Teams).
If you have any accessibility requests or reasonable adjustments required to any elements of the recruitment process and feel comfortable doing so, please contact Mitch Gourley (mitch@sport4all.com.au) for a confidential discussion.
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Our take home message:
Get Skilled Access is a Disability Owned Business Enterprise (DOBE), meaning we are managed and run by people with disability, and people with lived experience of disability.
We’re passionate about empowering people to lead happy, healthy, and active lives. GSA and Sport4All recognises and celebrates the diversity of our communities in all its forms. We foster and promote inclusivity and encourage everyone to apply, especially those who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. There is a place in sport for everyone, exactly as you are.