Level: 7.1
Salary: $103,774 per annum/pro rata
Hours/Employment Status: Permanent Full Time
The Community Centres Division provides innovative, unique, place-based programs support Aboriginal children (0-5 years), school age children (6-12 years), youth (12-18 years), families and kin to achieve positive outcomes in community safety, education, and wellbeing. The Child Family Centres (CFC) program is a core service delivered through Town Camps Community Centres.
The CFC Strategic Project Officer position is part of a dynamic team that uses client-centred, community-led approaches to respond to client identified needs by facilitating links and referrals to a broad range of internal and external programs and service providers.
The CFC Strategic Project Officer role is a new role as part of the Child Family Centre (CFC) initiative. The CFC Program supports the delivery of services to children, young people, and families to assist them to navigate local service system to make sure their needs are met. The Centres will assist families to access a range of support services and programs designed to strengthen family and community capacity in achieving outcomes in overall wellbeing, equity of opportunity and improved outcomes.
The objectives of the Child Family Centres are:
- To assist and support local families experiencing risk of vulnerability to address their needs
- To strengthen community leadership and capacity to support families to raise children, and
- To put in place strong, sustainable, and accountable systems for improving child and family wellbeing.
Tangentyere’s CFC model locates 5 specialist family and service connection staff in hubs at existing Community Centres in a ‘Hub and Spoke Model”. The ‘hub” is Tangentyere’s Community Centre Division, and the spokes are the Community Centres located at Hidden Valley, Larapinta Valley, Trucking Yards, Walripiri/Charles Creek, and Karnte/Little Sisters Town Camps. This model ensures staff are supported to work in teams that can rapidly respond to individual and community needs, and link families to support services by helping them navigate the local service system.
This role will work under guidance form the Division manager and in close collaboration with the 5 CFC Service Connectors and 5 Community Centre Coordinators to provide strategic development of the practical partnerships with internal and external service providers.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated individual with excellent communication and facilitation skills who is committed to working with vulnerable families and children. Additionally, they will engage with stakeholders and community members to promote the program, ensuring it is culturally safe, accepted by and responsive to individuals, families, and communities across the Alice Springs region.
Closing date: 14/06/2023
Please see for How to Apply and application requirements.
