People of Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged to apply

Due to the nature of this role, applicants are required identify as female

Based in Alice Springs with some travel to NPY lands

Salary packaging benefits

Relocation assistance available

ABOUT US

Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council was founded and is still led, governed and directed by women from the NPY region. It was created to give a voice to women across 26 desert communities in the cross-border regions of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Today, we continue to provide progressive, innovative and evidence based work in service delivery, advocacy and support.

At its core NPY Women’s Council is about family and community – walytja. Our purpose is to work with women, children and their families of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara region in central Australia. Our role is to work side by side and help increase their capacity to lead safe and healthy lives with improved life choice

ABOUT THE TEAM

‘Atunypa Wiru Minyma Uwankaraku’ Service works from a ‘holistic and relational’ standpoint, and is structured so that caseworkers are supported to develop relationships in the communities in which they work using a community development approach. We recognise that this is our key tool for individual and community engagement. ‘Casework’ is thus very broad in its scope and ranges from working with individuals in crisis and short-medium term follow-up (including supporting clients through the legal system), to working with women and their families in recovery and with longer term goals, through to a variety of community-level and other group activities driven by community members.
Caseworkers are supported by the Community Programs Team (CPT), which is made up of project workers who have specialist skills in Anangu culture and language, community development, legal advocacy and education and narrative therapy. The Malparara-Malparara project sits within this team.
The Malparara-Malparara project is a group of Anangu women who have come together to create culturally safe ways of engaging in healing and violence prevention work, with an emerging focus on engaging with young
women. Supporting the work of the Malparara- Malparara project are two project officers, the community programs team leader and an Anangu Support Worker (ASW) who provides cultural guidance to the Malparara-Malparara project workers and DFVS staff more broadly.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a project officer of the Malparara-Malparara project, you will collaboratively plan and facilitate regular workshops with other project staff, the ASW and Anangu participants, and support these participants to use learnings from the workshops to engage in primary prevention and healing work in remote community locations.
Guided by the NPYWC Ngapartji-Ngapartji Working and Learning Together Workforce and Capability Framework, you will support Anangu employment within the DFVS through the collaborative delivery of Anangu led, remote based violence prevention and healing activities, including On Country picnics and overnight camps. You will be required to travel to remote locations as a part of this work.
You will also support Malparara-Malparara group participants to feed their reflections back to the broader DFVS to help guide the practice of the service, and you will contribute to the facilitation of the ongoing evaluation of the project using a developmental evaluation approach.

You will work collaboratively within the Malparara-Malparara team, and report directly to the Community Programs Team Leader.

ABOUT YOU

You will have relevant qualifications in Social Work, Community Development or other relevant field. You will Demonstrated knowledge of community development and its application in a remote Aboriginal context.

NPY Women’s Council is led and governed by women from the NPY region and follows strong values and high principles that guide our work. We provide a comprehensive orientation program, best practice supervision, professional development that includes vicarious trauma and a range of counselling services to support you.

In addition to this we offer a generous remuneration package. You will receive an above award salary, salary packaging benefits, generous annual leave package, 3 weeks of personal leave (to care for you and your family) and a retention bonus.

TO APPLY

Please complete the form on our website: https://www.npywc.org.au/employment/

A detailed position description can be found here:https://www.npywc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Malparara-Malparara-Project-Officer_.pdf

For initial enquiries about the role, please contact Heather Smith, Manager DFVS on 08 8958 2345

Please note, we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis and a suitable candidate may be appointed prior to closing date.