The Australian Human Rights Commission is seeking an EL1 Community Engagement Manager, Community Support in their Race Discrimination Team for a full time non-ongoing role until 30 June, 2025.

The Race Discrimination Team undertakes a program of policy, project, education and public awareness work under the Commission’s National Anti-Racism Strategy including a national anti-racism campaign and initiatives to progress a National Anti-Racism Framework.

The Commission has recently been given funding to deliver a program of anti-racism work to support Muslim, Palestinian, Arab, Jewish and other communities in Australia affected by the Hamas-Israel conflict.

Purpose of the position

The successful applicant will:

• Lead the delivery of a time sensitive program of community engagement with Muslim, Jewish, Arab and Palestinian communities, leaders and representative bodies.
• Support the delivery of tailored anti-racism content and awareness raising anti-racism initiatives to combat antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism and hate including through Commission campaign and other channels.

Key responsibilities

Community engagement:

• Undertake time sensitive community engagement and consultations taking a trauma-informed, solutions-based approach.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key interest groups and communities as well as internal stakeholders ensuring stakeholder interests are recognised and managed sensitively, positively and professionally.
• Support the design and implementation of best practice community engagement.
• Represent the Commission in community engagement settings.
• Ensure engagement with hard to reach and hardly reached communities.
• Undertake monitoring, evaluation and reporting on community engagement outcomes.

Public awareness and education:

• Contribute engagement experience and outcomes to the design and development of tailored, engaging anti-racism public awareness and education content.

Strategic thinking and leadership:

• Support the Director – Campaign & Engagement to provide strategic advice to the Race Discrimination Commissioner and Commission Executive.
• Manage a high performing team of multi-disciplinary professionals.
• Identify and effectively manage risks in a complex operating environment.

Key capabilities and role requirements

Experience, qualifications and accreditations:

• Demonstrated expertise in community engagement and consultation including the development, preparation and management of consultation documents and reports.
• Demonstrated experience in campaigns and/or public awareness initiatives.
• Lived experience with First Nations or other racialised communities is desirable.
• Demonstrated specialist knowledge, understanding and/or experience in anti-racism is desirable.
• Demonstrated proficiency in identifying and developing complex, practical policy solutions

Strategic thinking and judgement:

• Demonstrated capacity for strategic thinking, sound judgement and creative problem solving in a complex, sensitive and dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated high level representational skills.
• Demonstrated capacity to identify and effectively manage organisational risks.

Relationships and interpersonal skills:

• Exceptional relationship management skills with a capacity to ensure stakeholder interests are recognised and managed successfully.
• Collaboration and negotiation skills with an ability to navigate challenging situations in a dynamic environment.

Communication:

• Exceptional communication skills including a demonstrated ability to communicate:
  • With all stakeholders with respect, empathy and discretion utilising a trauma-informed approach, and
  • Confidently and persuasively to a range of stakeholders.

Professional knowledge and skills:

• Project/Program Management skills including knowledge of best practice engagement with an ability to deliver effective outcomes.
• Monitoring and evaluation skills including the application of evaluation frameworks to assess the effectiveness of engagement.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We value inclusivity and diversity and seek people who support and model the behaviours we promote in our workforce. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations Australians, mature workers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, carers, LGBTQI+ and people with disability.

Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS) unless the Agency Head has agreed otherwise, in writing.

The Commission is committed to providing an accessible, inclusive work environment to enable people with a disability to participate fully in all aspects of employment. Applicants are encouraged to request reasonable adjustment as required to assist your participation in this recruitment process.

to apply

Click 'Apply Now' to please provide a resume and covering letter outlining your interest in this position. You are not required to address each selection criterion individually but should provide sufficient information to demonstrate that your skills, knowledge and experience are the right fit for this position. Please be accurate, succinct and show a clear connection with the selection criteria for the role.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to fulfil the requirements of the role in an impartial and respectful manner as required by the APS Code of Conduct. The successful candidate will uphold the integrity and independence of the Australian Human Rights Commission.

As part of the recruitment and selection process, applicants will be required to consent to and undergo background checks which may include character and social media checks.

Additional information may be sought from [email protected] using the subject line: Community Engagement Manager, Community Support enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.