Position Summary
Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation (TCAC) is a community controlled Public Benevolent Institution delivering human services and 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 Programs (FVPP) approach is underpinned by the Northern Territory’s Domestic, Family & Sexual Violence Reduction Framework 2018–2028 Safe, Respected, and Free from Violence Framework principles and the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children 2010-2022 (the National Plan). Both Frameworks guide our approach and responses to Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV) with Aboriginal community members who live in the Town Camps of Alice Springs.
The FVPP is an integrated program with components designed to meet the needs of men, women, young people, and children who have been impacted by DFSV, as well as primary prevention work, and also consists of a Men’s Behaviour Change Program, the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group, and the Young Women’s Family Safety Group.
The Domestic Violence Specialist Children’s Services (DVSCS) provides specialist early intervention support for Aboriginal young people, aged between 12 and 18, who have been impacted by DFSV.
The Step Up! Respect program will sit alongside the DVSCS and will build on program content already designed by the DVSCS in current group programs. The Step Up! Respect Group Facilitator will also work closely with program partner Her Story Consulting to co-design and deliver the program.
Step Up! Respect aims to have conversations with young people about jealousy, controlling and violent behaviours, and risky and harmful sexual behaviours. Step Up! Respect will particularly focus on young people who are disengaged from school settings and who may miss out on any school-based programming. Step Up! Respect aims to have these conversations and deliver programming in positive and engaging ways by taking a strength-based approach to promote healthy relationships.
The successful candidate will have completed tertiary studies in Social Work, Youth Work, Community Development, or a related discipline, and/or have relevant experience working alongside young people. Having a strong understanding of DFSV is desirable, however training can be provided to the right candidate.
You will work as part of a team of the Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention program supporting the co-design of the Step up! Respect program this will include the co-design of group work content and the delivery of group programs to young people and their influential adults. Importantly, you will ensure the program is accessible, trauma informed and culturally safe, and is accepted by young people, families, and communities.
The successful candidate will be a highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills who is committed to reducing violence against women and children and supporting young people to engage in safe and respectful relationships.
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. We have zero tolerance when it comes to abuse of any kind and will take disciplinary action, including and up to termination of employment, should we determine that abuse has taken place or there has been a failure to report any suspected or alleged abuse.
Responsibilities
• Develop a culturally safe contextually specific program for young people disengaged from school.
• Develop program materials to be delivered in group sessions for young people and their influential adults focusing on preventing Domestic, Family and Sexual violence related harm.
• Facilitate group sessions for young people.
• Support the facilitation of group sessions for young people’s influential adults.
• Develop and maintain appropriate stakeholder relationships.
• Contributing to the preparation, collection, and dissemination of data for the purposes of reporting to the funding body and evaluation.
• 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
• Experience working alongside young people.
• Experience working alongside Aboriginal people, and/or a demonstrated ability to work in a cross-cultural context.
• An understanding and commitment to Human Rights, the reduction of DFSV related harms and improving the safety of women, children, and young people.
• A strong understanding of DFSV, trauma informed and strengths-based theories, and childhood development theories and practice.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal Tangentyere programs and external stakeholders.
• Current NT Drivers Licence, NT Working with Children (Ochre) Card, satisfactory Police Check, and proof of full (3) vaccination against COVID-19.
Desirable
• Completed tertiary studies in Social Work, Youth Work, Community Development or a related discipline, or relevant experience.
• A demonstrated understanding and commitment to a gendered analysis of domestic and family violence and experience in group facilitation are desirable, however training can be provided to the right candidate.
• Demonstrated strong administration, data collection, analysis and writing skills, however training can be required for the right candidate if necessary.
• 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 Central Australian Aboriginal people.
