The Drug Education Network (DEN) is seeking an experienced and skilled Educator to join our creative and talented team.

DEN has served the Tasmanian Community for 30 years, working to prevent and reduce the harms from drugs through leadership and education and has been recognised as an Employer of Choice since 2018. DEN neither condones nor condemns the use of drugs. Rather, we acknowledge that drug use exists irrespective of legal status or societal norms.

DEN is committed to supporting inclusion and diversity. The Educator with DEN will provide a range of health promotion, prevention, and early intervention education initiatives aimed at reducing the harm associated with alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) use across Tasmania. The experience and proven ability to develop innovative and informed educational resources and products, such as educational short videos, eLearning study units support ATOD prevention programs is essential.

We are seeking an individual who has:

1. Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly acquire, contemporary alcohol, tobacco and other drug issues, recommended approaches, best practice, related legislation, regulations, and policy frameworks.
2. High level understanding and knowledge of the principles of health promotion, prevention and early intervention education, with a demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge in the analysis, design, delivery and evaluation of quality learning experiences for a wide range of stakeholders.
3. High level of understanding and ability to use a community development approach when developing and delivering health promotion, prevention and early intervention educational programs.
4. High level written communication skills including a demonstrated ability to research, critically examine and identify quality sources of information, develop and produce quality, accessible resources to support DEN’s PPEI ATOD educational service provision.
5. High level interpersonal skills, including the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with a diverse range of people across a diverse number of settings and with the ability to effectively represent the DEN service.
6. Demonstrated ability to organise own work schedules, use initiative, set priorities and work with limited supervision as a collaborative member of a small team.

The Position – Level 6, Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award

Part-time Employment 0.6FTE - fixed-term, until June 2022.

The successful applicant will be offered the opportunity to salary package to maximise the value of their remuneration. The Drug Education Network also offers on the job training and orientation, and flexibility to facilitate work/life balance. Use your skills and experience to contribute to a growing organisation, a great team environment and positive workplace and culture.

The statement of duties is available here.