Senior Advisor, Aboriginal Health Liaison Workforce (Identified) - Hybrid WFH

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Meals & accommodation tax savings

Annual leave loading

Christmas leave

Early finish Fridays

Culturally safe workplace

Wellness spaces

Leave loading 17.5%

Job summary

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health (VACCHO) in Collingwood, VIC, offers a full-time, hybrid role focused on workforce engagement and communities of practice. The position emphasizes culturally safe practices and collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff.

The role involves coordinating events, developing professional development activities, and advancing VACCHO advocacy on cultural safety within mainstream healthcare, supported by flexible work arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating events and workforce development activities.
• Ability to plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate events and workforce programs.
• Experience building trusted relationships and handling sensitive information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and project management tools.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate communities of practice and related activities.
• Lead planning and delivery of workforce engagement events and professional development activities.
• Coordinate projects to raise standing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in mainstream healthcare.
• Liaise with Indigenous staff to share information and understand support needs, handling sensitive information with care.
• Escalate issues and prepare briefs for VACCHO leadership on equity and access in healthcare.
• Support VACCHO advocacy work to improve cultural safety in healthcare.

Skills

Event coordination

Project coordination

Stakeholder engagement

MS Office

Job description

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health – Collingwood VIC

VACCHO is committed to supporting our staff through a hybrid work model that balances flexibility with connection.

You will be able to discuss flexible working arrangements after completing a three-month office-based onboarding and training period. Full-time staff may request up to two days working from home per week, with arrangements scaled for 0.8 FTE and 0.6 FTE roles.

Location: Collingwood, VIC (Hybrid Work Model)

Salary: $105,000-115,000 per annum (plus super)

Benefits of working at VACCHO

• Access generous Salary Packaging entitlements (living expenses up to $15,900 tax savings per annum + meals & accommodation up to $2,650 tax savings per annum) and annual leave loading.
• Relax with 2 weeks gifted Christmas Leave during shut down (if commencing before 20 November 2026).
• Enjoy a 4pm finish on Fridays with gifted hour paid.
• Work for Community in a culturally safe Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation.
• Work in inner-city Collingwood with wellness spaces and end of trip facilities available.
• Receive 17.5% leave loading on annual leave + additional generous leave benefits.

Identified role

This employment opportunity is only available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

This is an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander designated position, classified under Section 12 Special Measures of the Equal Opportunity Act (2010).

You will

• Coordinate the organisation of communities of practice.
• Lead the planning and delivery of high-quality workforce engagement events and gatherings, including the development of professional development activities.
• Coordinate the delivery of projects to support, develop, and/or increase the standing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people working in mainstream healthcare services, in accordance with agreed workplans.
• Proactively liaise with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who work in mainstream healthcare settings to share information, understand the current levels of support provided by their employers, and the challenges they face in their work. This includes ensuring information of a sensitive nature is handled with due care, confidentiality, and respect.
• Escalate issues of concern, and develop briefings for VACCHO’s leadership team, to enable responses to matters that impact equity and access in mainstream healthcare services, in accordance with guidelines in agreed workplans.
• Support the development of VACCHO advocacy positions, and direct action, in relation to the continuous improvement of cultural safety in mainstream healthcare services.

Essential skills/experiences

• Demonstrated event coordination and project coordination experience, in a related role or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience planning, delivering, monitoring and evaluating events and workforce development events.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining trusted relationships, handling sensitive information and/or developing advocacy positions.
• Demonstrated proficiency and experience using Microsoft applications (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Project Management) combined with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Highly Regarded

• Demonstrated knowledge, understanding, and commitment to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures, and health.
• Demonstrated understanding of the philosophy and practice of Aboriginal Community Control.
• Experience working within the ACCO sector, and/or within a mainstream Aboriginal health or social services context
• An understanding of LGBTQIASB+ issues and respect for diverse identities.

We believe in the right for all people to be treated with the respect and dignity at all times, and that all people who work for, govern or undertake work at or visit us should at all times feel safe and included.

Visit us here for more info: https://www.vaccho.org.au/

Other employment related information

Employment is subject to a satisfactory and ongoing police records check (international where relevant) and Working with Children Check.

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion Statement:

VACCHO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We embrace the diversity of cultures, identities, gender, sex, and sexually diverse identities and expressions, experiences, beliefs, and values of all people.