Summary:
The Tangentyere Youth and Community Safety (YCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street Youth Service, Child, and Youth outreach Services as well as Night & Youth Patrols and the Looking after the kid's program providing afterhours programs to young people on Town Camps and out-of-school hours services. The YCS Division is increasingly working in an integrated fashion, ensuring staff and programs work together to provide holistic services for young people to achieve positive outcomes in education, safety, and wellbeing. This means that all staff, including Youth Workers are working across program to provide client and placed-based focused services that are flexible and responsive to needs.
Responsibilities:
* Lead, deliver and evaluate age & gender appropriate programs and community-led youth family and community development initiatives (6-18 years old)
* Promotion of youth and community safety, education, health, and wellbeing.
* Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and YCS policies and procedures.
* 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:
* Qualification or experience in Sport and Recreation, Youth Work, Education, Social Work, Community Development, or relevant area.
* Previous experience in working with youth at risk – preferably with Aboriginal people and communities.
* Good communication skills and ability to develop rapport and support with young people, family members and key stakeholders (internal and external).
* Current NT Drivers Licence, NT Working with Children (Ochre) Card, satisfactory Police Check, and proof of full (3) vaccination against COVID-19.
* Desired
* 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.