• Salary Packaging - generous tax concessions
• Central Collingwood office
• 24 Month Contract 

About the opportunity

The Senior Project Officer – Oral Health will lead the development and implementation of the Victorian Aboriginal Oral Health Strategy. The Strategy aims to strengthen culturally safe oral healthcare and prevention programs and services, to improve health outcomes for Victorian Aboriginal Communities. It has a key focus on children and families, and priority groups requiring acute dental treatment.

This role will combine evidence-based practice, project management and capacity building expertise to build oral health competencies across ACCO workforces while integrating oral health into holistic approaches to Aboriginal health and wellbeing. The role involves a significant amount of community engagement to drive strategic partnerships, stakeholder relationships, project governance and state-wide leadership and advocacy

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the planning, implementation and evaluation phases of the project, ensuring all deliverables and milestones are met in line with funding contracts.
• Develop and maintain internal project documentation including project briefs, progress reports, communication plans, risk registers, program management plans, and other related documents.
• Work with the Executive Manager and Executive Director to monitor project budget and timeline.
• Support the development of locally tailored health promotion programs for successful grant applications, with a particular focus on embedding Culture and Kinship.

About you

The ideal candidate will have:

• Identifies as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
• Qualified in Public Health/Health Promotion, Community Development, Aboriginal Primary Health Care, or Dental Health
• Evaluation or strategy project management experience
• Experience in the development and provision of health education and/or training programs, specifically for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations.

Get in touch

For more information regarding this role, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Project Officer - Oral Health enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Other employment related information

Employment is subject to satisfactory and ongoing police records check (international where relevant), and Working with Children Check.

About Us

We are a centre of expertise, policy advice, training, innovation and leadership in Aboriginal health and wellbeing.

Visit us here for more info: https://www.vaccho.org.au/.

About Salary Packaging

As a Public Benevolent Institute (PBI), we are able to offer generous tax concessions to our staff. For further information, please
click here.

VACCHO is committed to welcoming and embracing the diversity of cultures, identities, gender, sex, and sexually diverse identities and expressions, experiences, beliefs, and values of all people.

We believe in the right for all people to be treated with the respect and dignity at all times, and that all people who work for, govern or undertake work at or visit us should at all times feel safe and included.

A position description is attached.