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Safe House Carer

Level: 1.1-3.1

Salary: $29.69 - $38.65 per annum/pro rata  

Status: Cas/PPT/PFT

The Tangentyere Safe House (Ndarndarinjika Safe Houses) provides short term crisis accommodation for Aboriginal children between the ages of 0-12 years old, including respite care.  Working from a child centred approach the aim of the program is to ensure that young people are supported therapeutically through the safe provision of a physically, emotionally, and culturally appropriate family environment. The program recognises continued connection to family and culture as integral to a child’s identity and has cultural safety as a fundamental principle of its service provision.

This position is responsible for the day-to-day support for Aboriginal children in our care, the primary focus of this role is to ensure the children are supported through a physically, emotionally, and culturally safe family environment.  Safe House Carers work on a roster system within a home care setting and are required to attend to all aspects of the house whilst on duty with a primary focus on the care and supervision of all children residing in our houses.

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Closing date: Ongoing

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Trucking Yards Bounce Club Youth Coach - Aboriginal Identified

This is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Identified Position

Level: 1.1

Salary: $37.11 Inclusive of casual loading

Status: Casual

Nyewente Bounce Club is an afterschool basketball program for young people aged 12-18years. This initiative aims to deliver strengths-based skills development program to support pro-social engagement of children and young people residing in the camp. This program will provide employment opportunities for local coaches to promote basketball as a means of engagement and providing an impacting experience that inspires them to set goals and be motivated about their own future. The Bounce Club training program delivers customised training in program facilitation and project management for Indigenous coaches to deliver the bounce club program in their own community, supported by the Trucking Yards Community Centre team. 

The bounce club program includes basketball skills & drills using social emotional learning research related to the development of resiliency and employability skills for young people. This program will run one a week for 2hrs during the school term.

The Trucking Yard Bounce Club Youth Coach will run weekly basketball sessions with children and young people. The ideal candidates will be Trucking Yards residents who are enthusiastic about sports and working with young people.

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Closing date: 10/09/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Patroller - Aboriginal Identified

This is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Identified Position

Level: 2.1 - 3.1

Salary: $34.58 - $38.65 per annum/pro rata Status: Cas/PPT

The Tangentyere Youth, Families and Community (YFCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street Youth Service, the Youth Development Service 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 Patrollers, are working across program siloes to provide client and placed-based focused services that are flexible and responsive to needs.  

With our Patrol service running seven days per week, the Patroller will drive a patrols vehicle alongside a support worker. They will provide safe and culturally appropriate transport through public areas of Alice Springs and Town Camps to both adults and children. 

The Patroller will also provide early intervention, education and support to Aboriginal people and the wider community in a way that respects culture and human rights.  With guidance from a Senior Patroller, they will provide referral and relevant information about support services to passengers. And will encourage responsible alcohol use, school, and healthcare attendance as well as support and empower Aboriginal people to make a choice that creates a safer environment within the Alice Springs community. 

The hours of work are 6.30pm to 2am, Monday to Sunday. Flexibility around rostered days and times will be provided to the successful permanent candidate.

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Closing date: Ongoing

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Youth & Community Safety Support Worker - Aboriginal Identified

This is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Identified Position

Level: 2.1

Salary: $67,627 per annum/pro rata  

Status: Casual

The Tangentyere Youth and Community Safety (YCS) Division brings together a range of programs and services for young people. This includes the Brown Street and Child &Youth outreach Services. As well as our Night and Youth Patrol Service, including Looking After the Kids case management service.  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.  

With services running seven days per week, and during school holidays, the YCS Support Worker will support activities across all these program areas. Including assistance with safe, fun, active, creative, and culturally appropriate activities and learning experiences for children and young people on at 3 Brown Street. Providing support to our YCS Night Patrol as a driver or support person. Or supporting our Youth Outreach Service to conduct activities at Town Camps without a place-based Youth Service.

The Youth Support Worker will have an excellent knowledge of the Town Camp community and families and be a part of the broader Town Camp communities.

The Youth Support Worker will work alongside a youth worker or patroller in delivering the program and activities.

The position is indigenous identified, preferably living in an Alice Springs Town Camp or having connections to one.

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Closing date: Ongoing

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Youth Worker

Level: 3.1

Salary: $75,586, per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Part Time

The Tangentyere Youth, Families and Community Safety (YFCS) 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. 

With services running seven days per week, and during school holidays, the YCS Youth Worker will provide a range of safe, fun, active, creative, and culturally appropriate activities and learning experiences for children and young people on Town Camps and across our other service areas. The YCS Youth Worker will facilitate, support, and evaluate these activities. Programs will be community-led, age appropriate (6-18 years) and gender specific when appropriate, with a strong focus on mentoring and support for young people to encourage school attendance, and support their personal, cultural, and vocational growth.

The YCS Youth Workers will directly report to the Team leaders and work alongside other YCS Youth Program teams, and Community Safety teams to plan and deliver larger youth activities and events. Either at Brown Street or around Alice Springs area and positive role modelling for young people. This role operates Tuesday to Saturday, after hours until 9:30pm during the week, and on Saturday’s hours vary. 

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Carpenter

Level: 6.1

Salary: $108,969, per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Full Time

Tangentyere Constructions, a subsidiary of Tangentyere Council, is a professional building contractor. Tangentyere Constructions promotes self-determination and community control in the construction industry.

Tangentyere Constructions delivers property management, new construction work, and trade repairs and maintenance works to Alice Springs Town Camps and remote communities & outstations. Carpenters will be allocated by the General Manager to work on projects under the supervision of the Property Management Team Leader or one of the Constructions Supervisors.

This Carpenter will work under the supervision of the construction supervisors, and undertake various construction related activities including but not limited to tasks such as constructing and upgrading municipal residences and buildings, maintenance services including carrying out necessary minor general repairs.

This position is also expected to work autonomously or as part of a team, demonstrate sound judgement and decision making. The Carpenter must be a responsible person and have the capacity to instruct and supervise unskilled labourers in basic construction related tasks.

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Supporting Healing for Families Practitioner

Level: 6.1

Salary: $108,969, per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Full Time

The Supporting Healing for Families (SHFF) Program is a collaborative initiative designed to support individuals, families and communities, impacted by child sexual abuse, through culturally informed healing practices. This initiative, based with the Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention Program team, supported by SNAICC, and in collaboration with local partners such as Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, focuses on raising community awareness, empowering community members, fostering cultural reconnection and both-ways support for healing and recovery. 

The four elements of the Mparntwe/Alice Springs SHFF healing service model will include:

• Community awareness to address stigma and shame and to prevent child sexual abuse through community-led education and public health campaigns that enable communities to identify and respond to child sexual abuse and promote individual and collective healing.

• Empowering community members through community-developed leadership programs that enable women, men, and young people to lead campaigns to address stigma and shame and to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse and to promote collective healing.

• Reconnection and healing through culture to strengthen relationships and support structures within families and communities so that victims and survivors of child sexual abuse are secure and supported within their communities.

• Both-ways support for individual and family recovery through therapeutic practices and traditional cultural practices.

The SHFF Program aims to strengthen community resilience, support safe family environments, and align with Closing the Gap targets by embedding trauma-informed, culturally safe practices. 

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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DVF Strategic Partnerships Practitioner 

Level: 6.1

Salary: $108,969, per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Full Time

The Family Violence Prevention (FVP) Division includes a variety of programs including Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention Program (FVPP) under which sits the Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP), Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Group (TWFSG), Strong Families Program, and Domestic Violence Specialist Children’s Service (DVSCS).

The Tangentyere Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP) incorporates Element Four of the Northern Territory’s Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Reduction Framework 2018-2028 Safe, Respected and Free from Violence and is one of the five key components of the Northern Territory Government ten-year plan to reduce the impact of domestic, family, and sexual violence in our community.

This role will work within a co-responder model with key stakeholders who include DFV victim survivor practioners, child protection practioners and police providing time-limited follow up to the person committing DFV after the initial occurrence when it is safe, appropriate, and/or more effective to do so. This may be by telephone, in person, at the police station, or at the DFV specialist service. This includes emergency support, risk assessment, information, safety planning for immediate needs, and connecting people committing DFV to supports to foster accountability and behaviour change and address immediate needs (including suitability assessment and referral to the Tangentyere men’s Behaviour Change program, specialist services, housing, mental health, and alcohol and other drug services etc.). This role will also represent Tangentyere Council on the Family Safety Framework. This includes attending the Family Safety Meeting every fortnight with the purpose of sharing information and collaborating on risk management actions to improve the safety of victim survivors identified as being at serious risk of DFSV related harm or death. 

The successful candidate will take a leadership role to build strategic partnerships in the context of Men’s Behaviour Change. This role is committed to building relationships with external stakeholders/partners and collaborating with other services. Secondary consultations will be undertaken with internal and external stakeholders to build capacity around men who use violence. 

The successful candidate will have completed tertiary studies in Social Work, Welfare Studies, Psychology, or a related discipline with experience in assessment and intake and the delivery of Men’s Behaviour Change work or in a similar field where intake and assessment is undertaken.  Those applicants working towards a relevant qualification will not be excluded from applying for the position where oversight, support and supervision is available from highly qualified and experienced supervisors.  Skills and experience in group work practices is highly desirable.      

The successful candidate will also be a highly motivated individual with excellent communication skills who is committed to reducing violence against women and children in Central Australia and will engage with stakeholders to promote the MBCP and to ensure the program is culturally safe and accepted by individuals, families, and communities across the Alice Springs region.

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Men's Behaviour Change Practitioner 

Level: 6.1

Salary: $108,969, per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Full Time

The Tangentyere Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP) aims to work towards the safety, well-being, human rights and dignity of women, children and others affected by men’s use of violence. It incorporates Element Four of the Northern Territory’s Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Reduction Framework 2018-2028 Safe, Respected and Free from Violence and is one of the five key components of the Northern Territory Government ten-year plan to reduce the impact of domestic, family, and sexual violence in our community. 

The MBCP offers a groupwork model and space for men who use violence and abuse in their intimate relationships. Our work with men is part of an integrated response, including contact with partners and ex-partners through Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia (WoSSCA).

MBCPs have three central aims: 

1. Increase the safety of women and children

2. Monitor risk through an integrated response

3. Support men to make change and stop using violence

The successful candidate will be highly motivated with excellent communication skills and is committed to reducing violence against women and children in Central Australia. They will build relationships with men individually and in a group setting to support them in making nonviolent choices. They will engage with stakeholders as part of an integrated response MBCP to keep men in view and continually monitor risk.

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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TACS Community Support Worker

Level: 1.1 - 3.1

Salary: $29.69 - 38.65 per annum/pro rata  

Status: Permanent Full Time 

Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS) is part of the Social Services Division, which aims to improve the quality of life of Central Australian Aboriginal people and the wider community through providing innovative, responsive, and culturally safe services.

TACS provide CHSP, HCP & NDIS home care ¢tre-based services to an extremely diverse and vulnerable cohort of people, where health is more than often secondary to other social determinants.  With more than 7 languages spoken and over 100 clients, TACS continues to uphold quality service provision and maintains its strong ties with members of the Alice Springs and wider community.

This position will be responsible for providing direct personal care and support to frail, aged people, and people living with disability in the community.

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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CAYLUS Youth Worker 

Level: 5.1

Salary: $63.76 Inclusive of casual loading

Status: Casual

CAYLUS services remote communities across Central Australia to reduce the supply, demand and harm caused by volatile substance use.

This position will be responsible for traveling to and residing in remote communities for extended periods of time. The Youth Worker will engage with community stakeholders to develop and implement strategies that prevent and reduce the impact of substance misuse on young people and families and deliver youth programs and activities outside of school hours and on weekends. 

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Closing date: 24/09/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Step Up! Respect Program Lead Facilitator

Level: 6.1

Salary: $108,969 per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Full Time

The Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention (FVP) Division’s 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 FVP 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 work within the Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention Program team and sit alongside the DVSCS to deliver training, messaging and campaigns that normalise conversations about sexual consent, jealousing, pornography and harmful sexualised behaviours. The Step Up! Respect Lead Group Facilitator will also supervise StepUp Respect Program Support Facilitator and work together to deliver training with young people disengaged from school and influencers of those young people throughout the community.

Step Up! Respect aims to have conversations with young people about sexual consent, jealousing, pornography 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 implementing the Step up! Respect program including leading the facilitation 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.

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Step Up! Respect Program Support Facilitator 

Level: 5.1

Salary: $99,741 per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Full Time

The Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention (FVP) Division’s 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 FVP 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 work within the Tangentyere Family Violence Prevention Program team and sit alongside the DVSCS and to deliver training, messaging and campaigns that normalise conversations about sexual consent, jealousing, pornography and harmful sexualised behaviours. The Step Up! Respect Program Support Facilitator will also be supervised by the Step Up! Respect Lead Group Facilitator and together they will deliver training with young people disengaged from school and influencers of those young people throughout the community.

Step Up! Respect aims to have conversations with young people about sexual consent, jealousing, pornography 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 Step Up! Respect program Lead Facilitator with the delivery of group programs to young people and their influential adults as well as engagement in community events, public campaign messaging and initiatives to normalise conversations about sexual consent, jealousing, pornography and harmful sexualised behaviours. 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.

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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TACS Social Worker  

Level: 5.1

Salary: $99,741 per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Full Time 

Tangentyere Aged & Community Services (TACS) is part of the Social Services Division, which aims to improve the quality of life of Central Australian Aboriginal people and the wider community through providing innovative, responsive, and culturally safe services.

TACS provide CHSP, HCP & NDIS home care ¢tre-based services to an extremely diverse and vulnerable cohort of people, where health is more than often secondary to other social determinants.  With more than 7 languages spoken and over 100 clients, TACS continues to uphold quality service provision and maintains its strong ties with members of the Alice Springs and wider community.

This position will also develop awareness campaigns and social support activities that will be co-designed with TACS clients and the leadership group at Tangentyere Council aiming to spread culturally safe messages to community members about elder abuse, neglect, and family violence.

This position will also support those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, to access appropriate and sustainable housing as well as community care, residential aged care, and other support services, specifically targeted at avoiding homelessness or reducing the impact of homelessness while providing early intervention strategies for clients to ensure their emotional, psychological, and physical health and wellbeing is maintained.

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Closing date: 01/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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Coordinator - Secretariat

Level: 7.1

Salary: $117,852 per annum/pro rata

Status: Permanent Full Time 

Led by our Board of Directors, the Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) is working closely with Town Campers to ensure all aspects of Housing Management across all Town Camps transitions back to TCAC in a manner which upholds principles of self-determination and supports strong governance within Housing Associations/Corporations utilising the local – decision making framework.

The Coordinator - Secretariat is part of the Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) and plays a key role in ensuring that new and existing governance and organisational policies and programs reflect the priorities and needs of Town Camps, supporting meaningful and lasting outcomes.

The purpose of this role is to support effective governance and compliance across the sixteen Town Camps (11 Town Camp Association Committees and 5 Aboriginal Corporation Boards) who are corporate members of Tangentyere Council. The Coordinator - Secretariat provides administrative and governance support services to assist the Associations and Corporations in meeting their compliance obligations under relevant legislation (CATSI Act 2006 and Associations Act 2003).

The role also promotes culturally safe governance engagement and supports Town Camp residents to have a clear voice in governance processes. Importantly, the Coordinator - Secretariat works to support Town Camp Associations and Corporations to operate in a way that upholds principles of self-determination and aligns with Tangentyere’s values, including the Town Camp Wellness Framework. 

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Closing date: 08/10/2025

Suitable applicants may be appointed prior to the closing date. 

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