Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) is an Aboriginal community-controlled organisation, providing services and running social enterprise activities for the benefit of Aboriginal people from the Alice Springs Town Camps, urban Alice Springs, and Central Australia.

The Family Safety & Social Services (FS&SS) Division includes a variety of programs including Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention Program (FVPP) under which sits the Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP), Domestic Violence Specialist Children’s Service (DVSCS), Strong Families Program and the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group (TWFSG).

The ‘Prevent. Assist. Respond. Training – do your part’ (PART) project is specialist ongoing domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) training for police and healthcare workers in the Northern Territory.

The PART project was developed by a consortium led by Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation, with its partners Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia (WoSSCA), the Domestic Violence Legal Service (DVLS) and the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission. Northern Territory Police, Northern Territory Department of Health, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory, and Territory Families sit on the PART Steering Committee and provide oversight and guidance on the project.

The PART project has four central aims:

• To ensure the voices of victim-survivors, particularly Aboriginal women, inform the training materials and package for police and healthcare workers
• To increase collaboration and strengthen relationships between the DFSV sector, health and police
• To increase knowledge and understanding of domestic, family, and sexual violence, including emerging forms and key challenges, as well as trauma-informed culturally safe and non-collusive practice, among stakeholders and community members
• To support healthcare workers and police through the development and delivery of targeted ongoing specialist training materials and packages.

While initially focused on police and health sectors, PART is now expanding into a broader community education context. The PART Community Educator will play a key role in delivering foundational DFSV training across a range of organisations, including Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), specialist DFSV services, legal services, safe houses, and other community contexts throughout the Northern Territory. The successful candidate will be a highly organised and motivated individual with excellent communication skills, who is committed to reducing violence against women and children across the NT. The position will involve adapting content and developing resources, delivering in-person training, significant travel, stakeholder engagement, and administrative tasks associated with implementing the PART program in community and frontline service contexts. This role reports to the PART Coordinator and works closely with the PART project team to ensure the training is effectively delivered beyond the police and healthcare sectors.

To successfully fill this role, the PART Community Educator will have completed tertiary studies in Community Development, Social Work, Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, or a related discipline, and have significant experience in DFSV work as well as in training and education. Experience in, and an understanding of, the Northern Territory context—along with experience working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities—will be highly advantageous.

As part of your role, you will be working with children, people with a disability and people who are vulnerable. It is your obligation to always ensure their safety and report any concerns in line with our duty of care obligations. There is a zero tolerance for abuse of any kind, whether abuse has occurred or where failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse has taken place. It is therefore an expectation that the successful candidate upholds this and acts accordingly if or when required.

Responsibilities

• Support the Coordinator to schedule, promote, and deliver DFSV training for community organisations across all five divisions of the Northern Territory.
• Develop, engage and manage relationships with stakeholders throughout the Northern Territory.
• Adapt and develop PART training resources and materials for community settings.
• Contribute to knowledge product development.
• Contribute to monitoring and evaluation processes for PART, including reporting.
• Assist with achieving quality management objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving safeguarding objectives across the organisation.
• Assist with achieving compliance objectives across the organisation.
• Other reasonable duties as required.

Qualifications and Selection Criteria

Required

• Completed tertiary studies in in Community Development, Social Work, Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, or a related discipline
• Demonstrated experience in domestic, family, and sexual violence work
• Demonstrated experience in training, education or facilitation – including content and resource development
• Demonstrated understanding of the evidence-base in relation to gender-based violence, and specifically domestic, family, and sexual violence
• Excellent communication skills and the ability positively to engage and manage stakeholders across a variety of sectors.
• The ability to engage and work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Demonstrated strong administration and organisation skills
• Current NT Drivers Licence, NT Working with Children (Ochre) Card, satisfactory Police Check, and proof of full (3) vaccination against COVID-19.

Desirable

• Experience in monitoring and evaluation, including data collection, maintaining consent and data security protocols and upholding data sovereignty
• Current First Aid Certificate, or ability and willingness to attain.
• An understanding of Aboriginal culture as well as a broad range of contemporary issues affecting Australian Aboriginal people.
• An understanding of the Northern Territory, including the various ways that domestic, family, and sexual violence manifests in the Northern Territory and the barriers/challenges experienced by victim-survivors.

Our organisation is committed to child safety. We have zero tolerance of child abuse. Our robust human resources, recruitment and vetting practices are strictly adhered to during the application and interviewing process. Applicants should be aware that we carry out working with children, police records and reference checks to ensure that we are recruiting the right people.

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A suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.

A position description is attached.