Training & Capability Coordinator

Nrmjoenvironmental Jobs, Nrm; City Of Karratha; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks annual leave

Annual flight allowance

Salary sacrifice

Rental and well-being subsidies

Job summary

Ngarda-Ngarli Marlpa is seeking a Training and Capability Coordinator to lead Ranger and Coordinator career development across the Pilbara. The role includes coordinating training partnerships, events, and programs, and supporting professional growth across ranger teams.

Based in Karratha with regular regional travel. You will build relationships with training providers and funders, ensure training is delivered on country where possible, and establish systems in the first year while developing

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in training coordination or capability development.
• Experience working with Indigenous communities or ranger teams.
• Sound organisational and communication skills.
• Willingness to travel regularly across the Pilbara.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate network-wide training with ranger teams and providers.
• Manage training logistics: venues, travel, accommodation, equipment and safety.
• Develop and maintain ranger coordinator career development resources.
• Build and maintain relationships with training providers and partners.
• Maintain training records and support reporting and learning processes.

Skills

People development

Relationship building

Organised and practical

Autonomy in small team

Education

Relevant qualification in VET or resource management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

• Lead training, capability and career development across the Pilbara Ranger Network.
• Karratha (with regular travel in the Pilbara)
• Full-time (0.8 considered)

About you

You will be someone who is genuinely inspired by helping people recognise their strengths, build confidence and create meaningful career pathways while supporting the enduring work of caring for Country. Warm, patient and culturally respectful, you will take the time to listen, earn trust and build productive relationships with ranger teams, coordinators, training providers and community partners across the Pilbara. You will also be highly organised and practical to coordinate training schedules, travel, venues, participant communication and accurate records, adapt calmly when plans change, and travel regularly across regional and remote locations. Most importantly, you will know when to step forward to provide structure and when to step back so people can shape solutions that reflect their own needs, aspirations and communities.

About us

Ngarda-Ngarli Marlpa, together caring for ngurraRanger teams across the Pilbara are caring for their country, combining cultural practice with contemporary land management. The Pilbara Ranger Network is an Aboriginal-led corporation that grew out of eight years of regional collaboration between eleven ranger teams and more than 200 rangers, across a region of more than 178,000 square kilometres.

Everything PRN does rests on good cultural governance and cultural protocols. From that foundation, we work with ranger teams to come together and support each other as rangers and coordinators, and to strengthen ranger programs and grow careers and pathways. We also help build partnerships the right way, connecting teams with the expertise they need and lifting the profile of the Pilbara ranger sector.

Each ranger team is independent and works on its own country. PRN supports teams individually with what they need and brings them together on the challenges and opportunities that reach across the region.

We are a small and growing team based in Karratha, working closely with ranger teams across the region. Working here means working alongside ranger teams continuing one of the world's oldest living traditions of caring for country, in one of Australia's most biodiverse regions.

About the role

Growing ranger and coordinator careers is one of Pilbara Ranger Networks (PRN's) core priorities, and its members have identified training and career development as a critical need. The Training and Capability Coordinator takes responsibility for that work across the network leading training partnerships, coordinating training events and programs, supporting ranger and coordinator professional development, identifying career pathways, and building relationships with training providers.

The PRN connects and supports Aboriginal ranger programs across the Pilbara, bringing people together to share knowledge, build skills, and strengthen land and sea management across Traditional Owner groups. PRN now spans eleven ranger teams and a growing staff and consultant team.

Training in the region is delivered by TAFE, registered training organisations and independent trainers. You build and hold those relationships, shape what is offered so it is tailored to ranger work and delivered on country, and bring in other opportunities where they fit. Each ranger team is independent and sets its own priorities, and part of the role is finding where those priorities line up across the network. As a new position, the first year involves establishing systems and relationships as much as running programs.

You report to the General Manager and work closely with PRN staff, ranger teams, ranger coordinators, training providers, and funders. You work with a high degree of autonomy, setting your own day-to-day priorities, with regular check-ins and support from the General Manager. The role is based in Karratha, with regular travel across the Pilbara including to remote communities and on-country training.

Position and broad outline of duties

Training coordination

• Plan and coordinate training across the network, working with ranger teams, ranger coordinators, and providers to identify needs and match them to what can be delivered
• Manage all logistics for training delivery, including scheduling, venues, travel, accommodation, catering, equipment, safety requirements and participant liaison, drawing on PRN's shared vehicles, equipment and travel systems
• Coordinate training for rangers and ranger coordinators across both the technical skills of conservation and land management and the broader capabilities that strengthen ranger programs
• Identify and coordinate ranger exchanges, conference attendance and other leadership and development opportunities
• Work with providers to account for varying literacy, numeracy and digital confidence across the network so training is accessible to all participants
• Maintain records of training participation and outcomes across the network

Provider relationships

• Build and hold relationships with training providers, including TAFE, Registered Training Organisations, independent trainers and subject experts
• Work with ranger teams and training providers so training is contextualised to ranger work, scheduled around work programs and delivered on country where possible

Ranger and coordinator development

• Finalise and implement the Ranger Coordinator Capability Framework, working with ranger coordinators and program managers to track progress and identify needs
• Deliver the initiatives that sit under the framework, including the annual ranger coordinator and manager workshop
• Develop and maintain resources to support ranger coordinator and manager professional development

Network knowledge and learning

• Develop and maintain a regional strategy for ranger and coordinator career development, informed by a gap analysis across the network
• Advocate for sustainable, regionally delivered training, working with providers, funders, and government to improve training availability and quality across the Pilbara
• Support PRN's monitoring and evaluation of its training and capability activities, contributing to reporting and learning processes
• Keep across developments in the Indigenous ranger sector, including training standards, funding programs, and good practice

Systems and administration

• Maintain systems for tracking training activity, coordinator development, and career data across the network
• Manage training budgets across PRNs funded programs within delegated limits, tracking expenditure and working with the Finance team on program budgeting
• Contribute to funding reports and proposals relating to training and capability work
• Work with the General Manager and Programs Manager to identify funding opportunities for training and career development

Work Health and Safety

• Undertake all activities per WHS best practices, policies, and procedures
• Adhere to Safe Work Methods, including wearing PPE as required or directed
• Complete all documentation and reporting as required
• Participate in WHS continuous improvement

Other Duties

• Build relationships across the network and with partners and stakeholders, through the contact your role brings
• Represent PRN professionally in all interactions
• Other duties as required

Selection Criteria

Essential Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in training coordination, career development, or a comparable training and capacity building role.
• Experience negotiating with or managing external providers, contractors, or partners to deliver services.
• Experience working with Indigenous communities, organisations or ranger teams, and the interpersonal skills to build productive working relationships across members.
• Experience coordinating logistics and managing budgets for training, events, or programs in remote or regional locations.
• Experience working with capability frameworks, competency standards, or similar professional development tools.
• Sound organisational, written communication and computer skills, including proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite and confidence learning new systems.
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy in a small growing team, with willingness to travel regularly across the Pilbara.

Desirable Requirements and Experience

• A relevant qualification or experience in vocational education and training, or in cultural and natural resource management.
• Familiarity with the Indigenous ranger sector in Australia, including experience in a peak body, alliance, or network organisation.
• Experience managing activities out of remote or arid zone Indigenous communities, including driving 4WD vehicles on dirt roads and off-road.

Personal attributes

• Genuine interest in people development and in what helps people grow in their work.
• Patient and persistent in building relationships across a dispersed network.
• Practical and solutions-oriented when plans change.
• Comfortable supporting people to find their own answers rather than providing them directly.

Licenses and requirements

• Australian residency or citizenship
• Current Drivers License
• National Police Clearance
• Working with children check

This vacancy is open to all applicants with experience working in remote or regional Australia and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Remuneration

A competitive base salary of level 4 of the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award will be negotiated dependent on experience. The role will also include standard award allowances and superannuation, 5 weeks annual leave, salary sacrifice, rental and well-being subsidies and an annual flight allowance.

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