Mental Health Promotions Coordinator
Australian Department of Defence
Posted 16 days ago
The Role
The role of a Mental Health Promotions Coordinator within the Directorate of Military Mental Health and Psychology will allow you to be innovative, creative, flexible, and challenge you to think outside the box in the way you deliver Mental Health Promotion strategies, activities and training to an incredibly unique audience.
You will get to work collaboratively with a geographically dispersed team to promote and communicate training, resources, and events to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) community using a variety of channels.
The role requires overnight travel, providing administrative support as part of training governance requirements, minor technical support to online training, occasional work on weekends and outside of core business hours (with accrual of flex time), and requires a large amount of time away from your desk delivering training and engaging with ADF members.
About our Team
The Military Mental Health Training and Promotions team sits within the Directorate of Military Mental Health and Psychology.
The Directorate of Military Mental Health and Psychology is involved in a range of activities supporting the mental health and psychological effectiveness of Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel, including training and education, mental health support programs, policy and governance, organisational climate surveys, and monitoring and evaluation.
Within this Directorate, you will be part of an agile and geographically dispersed multi-disciplinary team that provides mental health promotion, prevention, and early intervention services to support ADF members.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Our ideal candidate will have the following skills and attributes:
- Ability to work closely and collaboratively with immediate manager.
- Able to work effectively as part of a small team, with capacity to work independently as required.
- Confidence to engage with broad and diverse stakeholders.
- Ability to engage and tailor communication styles, to a wide range of audiences either face-to-face or virtually (online).
- Able to deliver a number of workshops across different topics including: suicide prevention, mental health & wellbeing and alcohol, tobacco & other drugs.
Application Closing Date: Sunday 8 June 2025.
For further information please review the job information pack, reference DPG/03902/25 on https://defencecareers.nga.net.au/?jati=6F602D6A-A76C-AEA2-D50B-E3D5443F0221
About Australian Department of Defence
Role
The primary role of Defence is to defend Australia against armed attack.
Australia's defence policy is founded on the principle of self-reliance in the direct defence of Australia, but with a capacity to do more where there are shared interests with partners and allies.
Strategic Direction
The Defence White Paper was released on 25 February 2016 together with an Integrated Investment Program and Defence Industry Policy Statement.
Defence White Papers are the Government's most important guidance about Australia's long-term defence capability. They provide an opportunity for the Government and community to understand the the opportunities and challenges for Australia's future defence and security needs.
The White Paper provides a strategy aligned with capability and resources to deliver a future force that is more capable, agile and potent and ready to respond to future challenges.
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