Job Description

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 Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention Division’s (FVPD) approach is underpinned by the Northern Territory’s Domestic, Family & Sexual Violence Reduction Framework 2018–2028: Safe, Respected, and Free from Violence and the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010–2022 These frameworks guide our work in addressing Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV) among Aboriginal community members residing in the Alice Springs Town Camps.

FVPD is an integrated program supporting men, women, young people, and children impacted by DFSV. It includes Primary Prevention Programs, Early Intervention Programs and intervention programs such as the Men’s Behaviour Change program.

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 police and healthcare workers through the development and delivery of targeted ongoing specialist training materials and package.

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 throughout the Northern Territory. The position will involve content and resource development, training delivery, significant travel, stakeholder engagement and administrative elements to delivering specialist domestic, family, and sexual violence training to police and healthcare workers throughout the Northern Territory.

They will have completed tertiary studies in Community Development, Social Work, Gender Studies, Sociology, Psychology, or a related discipline and have significant experience in domestic, family, and sexual violence 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

• Coordinate the PART program, including the coordinator and management of PART facilitators, employed both internally at Tangentyere Council and externally as consultants.
• Arrange, schedule, promote, and deliver training for police and healthcare workers throughout the Northern Territory.
• Develop, engage, and manage relationships with stakeholders throughout the Northern Territory.
• Develop resources and training materials.
• Oversee monitoring and evaluation processes.
• 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.
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation, including data collection, maintaining consent and data security protocols and upholding data sovereignty.
• 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.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to positively 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.

Desirable

• Current First Aid Certificate, or ability and willingness to obtain.
• An understanding of Aboriginal culture as well as a broad range of contemporary issues affecting Australian Aboriginal people.