Job Description

Aboriginal DFV Primary Prevention Manager

Location – Parramatta, with flexible and hybrid working arrangements available

Employment type – Temporary full-time until 30 June 2028

Salary - $154,231.00 - $178,369.00 pa, plus superannuation and leave loading

This is a targeted recruitment. While all applicants are welcome, preference will be given to candidates who meet the established standards of the role and are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander descent. This is because the Department acknowledges this lived experience contributes a perspective valuable to our work with this community.

Your role

The Aboriginal Primary Prevention Manager plays a critical leadership role in leading initiatives and strategies that contribute to preventing domestic, family, and sexual violence before it occurs by driving culturally informed community-led initiatives that strengthen protective factors, challenge the drivers of violence, and promote respectful relationships. The role works in partnership with Aboriginal communities, organisations, and broader government and sector stakeholders to ensure prevention strategies are grounded in Aboriginal cultural knowledge, self-determination, and healing approaches.

This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate who is passionate about creating long-term social change and improving outcomes for Aboriginal people and communities. The role offers the chance to influence state-wide prevention efforts, build strong partnerships, lead innovative programs, and contribute to a future where Aboriginal families and communities can thrive free from violence. It combines strategic leadership with meaningful community impact, making it both professionally rewarding and culturally significant.

What you’ll do

The Aboriginal Primary Prevention Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating initiatives that prevent domestic, family, and sexual violence before it occurs by addressing its underlying drivers and strengthening protective factors within Aboriginal communities.

Key duties include developing and implementing prevention strategies, building strong partnerships with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and other stakeholders, providing strategic advice, managing projects and funding opportunities, and ensuring programs are culturally safe, evidence-informed, and community-led.

Day-to-day work involves engaging with communities and partners, leading consultation and co-design processes, overseeing program delivery, monitoring outcomes, supporting workforce capability, and advocating for approaches that promote Aboriginal self-determination, cultural strength, gender equality, and community wellbeing.

The Aboriginal Family Violence Team within the Women and Family Community Safety (WFCS) branch of the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) is focused on improving safety and wellbeing for Aboriginal families and communities through culturally informed policies, programs, partnerships, and service system reform. The team works closely with Aboriginal communities, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), government agencies, and sector partners to address domestic, family, and sexual violence while supporting Aboriginal self-determination, healing, and community-led solutions.

Within this environment, primary prevention plays a vital and complementary role. While many areas of the team focus on responding to violence and supporting victim-survivors, primary prevention seeks to stop violence before it occurs by addressing its underlying drivers and strengthening protective factors. The Aboriginal Primary Prevention Manager works at the forefront of this long-term change agenda, partnering with communities to promote cultural strength, respect, gender equality, healthy relationships, and community wellbeing. This work aligns closely with the team's values of collaboration, cultural safety, accountability, and Aboriginal leadership, ensuring that prevention approaches are community-led, evidence-informed, and grounded in Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing.

The role is well positioned within a supportive and purpose-driven team culture that values Aboriginal culture as a fundamental and stabilising influence, innovation, partnership, and meaningful engagement with Aboriginal communities. It provides an opportunity to contribute to both immediate and long-term outcomes by helping create the conditions for future generations of Aboriginal children, families, and communities to live free from violence.

What we’re looking for

In addition to the essential requirements outlined in the role description, the ideal candidate will:

• Be a highly motivated and culturally informed leader with a strong commitment to preventing domestic, family, and sexual violence in Aboriginal communities. They will demonstrate a deep understanding of Aboriginal cultures, communities, and the principles of self-determination, with a passion for trauma-informed responses and driving long-term social change through community-led and strengths-based approaches.
• Bring demonstrated experience in primary prevention, community development, social policy, public health, domestic and family violence, or a related field, with the ability to lead complex projects and build effective partnerships across government, non-government, and Aboriginal Community Controlled sectors.
• Have experience working directly with Aboriginal communities and stakeholders, with the ability to translate community priorities into meaningful strategies, programs, and outcomes.
• Possess strong strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills, with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build trust across diverse groups and sectors.
• Be confident providing high-quality policy and program advice, managing competing priorities, and leading initiatives from design through to implementation and evaluation. Strong project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills are essential.
• Hold relevant tertiary qualifications in Aboriginal studies, community development, social sciences, public health, social work, human services, or a related discipline (highly regarded).
• Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary primary prevention frameworks, the drivers of domestic, family, and sexual violence, Closing the Gap, and the broader policy and service landscape impacting Aboriginal communities.

Above all, the ideal candidate will be a respectful and collaborative leader who values cultural safety, partnership, accountability, and continuous learning. They will demonstrate the ability to work with sensitivity and integrity in a complex policy environment, while maintaining a clear focus on improving outcomes for Aboriginal children, families, and communities and contributing to a future free from violence.

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What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career

• Flexible, autonomous work environment

• Competitive pay and conditions

• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

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Applications close Sunday, 9 August 2026 at 11:59 pm AEST.

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For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Sussan Maybury on 0458 865 810 or at sussan.maybury@dcj.nsw.gov.au

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