Indigenous Community Engagement Officer - Darwin Flexible School

Job No: DWNICEO01
Location: Darwin
Employment Status: Full -Time
No. of Vacancies: 1
Closing Date: 8 Jan 2026 AEST

Indigenous Community Engagement Officer - Darwin Flexible School

  • Continuing, Full-Time
  • Start to be negotiated as soon as possible with successful applicant


ABOUT THE ORGANISATION:

Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) Flexible Schools Ltd currently educates over 2,500 young people in 21 Flexible Learning Schools (12 based in Queensland and 9 other schools across Australia) and two Special Education Services Schools in NSW, with approximately 800 staff nationally. We’re excited to share that the Darwin campus of St Joseph’s Catholic Flexible School is preparing to open its doors, offering a new opportunity for Young People in the Northern Territory.
Our schools provide a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment for Young People who have experienced barriers to education. Here at Flexis, we focus on helping students reconnect with learning, build confidence, and feel part of a caring community.
As part of the national EREA Flexible Schools network, and building on the success of our Alice Springs campus, Darwin will offer relationship-based, trauma-informed education that meets each student where they are. 


ABOUT THE ROLE

Staff are expected to work within the framework of common ground and demonstrate the ability to work under the four principles of operation; Respect, Honesty, Participation and Safe and Legal.

To perform this role, it is essential that the person who holds the position be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. It is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 that applicants are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders.

The typical duties of the role may include:

  • Supporting effective learning and teaching programs for young people in both middle and senior phases of secondary education
  • Promote and support the physical health and emotional wellbeing of the young people
  • Contributing to the development and implementation of the Flexible School’s objectives and planning
  • Contributing to the maintenance of a supportive and inclusive school environment with specific consideration for First Nations Young People
  • Build relationships and collaborate with the school, staff, young people and their families in relation to planning, actions and achieving outcomes
  • Support young people to engage with relevant external agencies through appropriate referral pathways and stakeholder meetings
  • Create and maintain connections and working arrangements with key stakeholders, elders, First Nations community and agency organisations
  • Liaise with staff and young people to coordinate activities and educational opportunities that acknowledge Sorry Day, Reconciliation Week, NAIDOC Week and other significant events
  • Advise school leadership team on matters effecting First Nations community, young people and families


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ABOUT YOU

  • Understanding of and commitment to the values of a Catholic educational system of schools in the Edmund Rice tradition
  • Able to demonstrate the high-level communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills necessary to be successful in a complex and layered organisational structure
  • Ability to diagnose problems, foresee potential issues and devise appropriate responses
  • Ability to lead, work in, and collaborate across teams with integrity and humility
  • Deep knowledge of and experience in First Nations Culture and Community

Requirements of the Role

  • To fulfil the role, a person must hold and maintain a current Queensland Working with Children Clearance (Blue Card).
  • No formal qualification or previous experience is required, however, a Certificate qualification or higher is highly desirable or previous experience in a similar role.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

  • Edmund Rice charism
  • Small group sizes with a flexible approach to learning
  • Salary sacrificing benefits, including FBT exempt payments of up to $15,900 p/a
  • Induction, Wellbeing and Professional Development Opportunities
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

HOW TO APPLY (Please upload documents in PDF format) 

To apply for a position, please complete the application form below. To support your application, you will be required to provide a current CV and Cover Letter highlighting your qualifications, experience and suitability for the role.

For a confidential conversation about the role, please contact Michelle Kinnane, EREA Flexible Schools Ltd., on 0428 123 715 or via email michelle.kinnane@flexi.edu.au .

 

Applications will be reviewed as they are received.

The successful applicant must possess (or be eligible to obtain) and maintain a current Working With Children Check.

All applicants will be subject to EREA and legislative screening procedures. These checks are consistent with EREA’s commitment to child protection policies and procedures.

Edmund Rice Education Australia is committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and dignity of all children and young people.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Edmund Rice Education Australia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

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Privacy Acknowledgment

EREA Flexi Schools Ltd is part of Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA), which is an organisation consisting of schools, entities and offices offering a Catholic education in the tradition of Blessed Edmund Rice.

  1. EREA Flexi Schools Ltd school’s collects personal information, including sensitive information about job applicants. This includes information provided in your job application, in the course of conversation or as collected from third parties on your behalf, such as employment referees. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the school to consider your application for employment with the school.
  2. Some of the information the school collects is to satisfy the school’s legal obligations, particularly to enable the school to discharge its duty of care to enrolled students.
  3. Laws governing or relating to the operation of a school require certain information to be collected and disclosed. These include relevant Education Acts and Public Health and Child Protection laws.
  4. In order to consider your application for employment and to facilitate and manage your employment relationship with the school, you consent to our collecting personal information about you from recruitment agencies, law enforcement agencies for criminal checks and working with children checks, educational institutions to verify your qualifications, and other individuals or businesses we contact for the purpose of reference-checking as agreed with you.
  5. The personal information that is collected about you will be stored securely in a recruitment record. If you are successful and become an employee then an employee record will be created and the personal information we have collected will be stored in this file. Employee records are exempt from the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988.
  6. If you are not offered a position or if you decline an offer of a position at the school the information stored in your recruitment record will be stored for 12 months, unless you advise us to destroy the records at an earlier time. At this time, the school will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify the information as appropriate.
  7. The school may disclose personal and sensitive information for administrative, educational and support purposes (or may permit the information to be directly collected by third parties). This may include to: government departments; people providing administrative and financial services to the school; anyone you authorise the school to disclose information to; and anyone to whom the school is required or authorised to disclose the information to by law, including under child protection laws.
  8. Failure to provide the information to the school will affect the school’s ability to evaluate your application and may result in the recruitment process not proceeding.
  9. The school may also use cloud computing service providers to store personal information (which may include sensitive information) on their servers in the 'cloud'. These servers may be located in or outside Australia. This may mean that personal information may be stored or processed outside Australia.
  10. EREA’s Privacy Policy contains further information about its use of cloud and other third-party service providers.
  11. EREA’s Privacy Policy is accessible via the school website or from the school office. The Policy sets out how job applicants and employees may seek access to, and correction of their personal information which the school has collected and holds. However, access may be refused in certain circumstances such as where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others or may result in a breach of the School’s duty of care obligations. Any refusal will be notified in writing with reasons if appropriate.
  12. EREA’s Privacy Policy also sets out how job applicants and employees can make a complaint about a breach of the APPs and how the complaint will be handled.
  13. If you provide the school with the personal information of others, such as other employment referees, doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you to inform them you are disclosing that information to the school and why, that they can request access to and correction of that information if they wish and to also refer them to EREA’s Privacy Policy for further detail about such requests and how the school otherwise handles personal information it collects and complaints it receives.

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Edmund Rice Education Australia

Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) Flexible Schools Ltd is a child safe organisation committed to the protection of children and has a zero tolerance of abuse of children. We are committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and dignity of all children and young people therefore, all applicants will be subject to EREA and legislative screening procedures.

These checks are consistent with EREA’s commitment to child safeguarding policies and procedures. This includes complying with our Child Safeguarding policy and code of conduct.
EREA Flexible Schools Ltd is an equal opportunity employer that promotes the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.