Job Summary
- $35 - $39.99 per hour
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 9th Aug 2022
- Brisbane & Gold Coast > Brisbane
Multicultural Australia is a leading Queensland multicultural organisation, providing settlement services for migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum. We aim to grow multicultural values across our State and to empower newly arrived Queenslanders from diverse cultural and language backgrounds through advocacy, community development and a range of client services.
Multicultural Australia is currently offering an opportunity for a Cultural Support Worker to work as part of our Humanitarian Settlement Program team. The roles are casual, with service regions across Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich and Gold Coast. As the roles cater to support a variety of languages, please include your spoken languages in your resume upon application.
Our Cultural Support Workers are diverse, representing many of Queensland cultural, ethnic, and faith-based communities. They are employed on a casual basis by Multicultural Australia as part of our settlement team to assist with delivering culturally appropriate and responsive support (e.g., advice, language, capacity building, etc.) alongside Multicultural Australia staff and our clients, to achieve outcomes. Cultural Support Workers are not employed as interpreters or community leaders. Among other duties, the successful candidate will:
You will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and have effective communication and interpersonal skills. As well as having a confident and positive personality, you will possess:
Successful candidate will be required to have a valid driver’s licence, police check and apply for a Working with Children Blue Card. It is a condition of employment with Multicultural Australia to fulfil all our current and future COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
Please peruse the position description on our website for full details about the role: https://www.multiculturalaustralia.org.au/current_vacancies
If your next move aligns with this position, please apply directly using the apply link!! You will redirect to our internal recruitment system to register your interest and submit a covering letter along with your resume.
We encouraged you to submit your application as soon as possible as we might interview and appoint suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
At Multicultural Australia, we pursue a workforce that is as diverse as our community - in race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and belief - and reflects the communities we work in. We recognise diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and we are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect.
We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability, and people of diverse genders and/or sexual orientations.