School Community Partnership Officer (Identified) - Burketown State School

Job Reference QLD/NQR598553/24T
Closing date November 4, 2024
Location North West Qld
Type Full-Time
Contact 0448 025 136

About this job

About the role:

  • Strong Communication Skills: Ability to effectively engage with students, parents, and community members, fostering open dialogue and collaboration.
  • Relationship-Building Expertise: Proven track record in developing and maintaining positive partnerships within diverse communities.
  • Organisational Skills: Excellent ability to plan, implement, and evaluate community programs and initiatives that support school objectives.
  • Cultural Competence: Understanding and respect for diverse backgrounds, ensuring inclusive practices that meet the needs of all families.
  • Provide support to engage with key school, family and community stakeholders to inform local place-based action plans for shared outcomes as part of the Equity and Excellence Partnership initiative targeting tailored and differentiated support to regional, rural and remote Queensland state school sites.

Please view the Role Description for a full list of responsibilities

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

Interested? To Apply: 

  • Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history) 
  • Attach a 1-page written statement about how your achievements and capabilities meet the requirements of the role. 

Mandatory Requirements for and Identified Role: 

It is a genuine occupational requirement for Identified roles that the position be filled by an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander person as set out in Section 7 of the Anti Discrimination Act 1991 for the purposes contained in Section 25 of that Act. 

Verification of Aboriginality and/or Torres Strait Island heritage

For administrative purposes, in relation to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identified role, an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person is a person who identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person and is either:

  • of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent; 
  • accepted as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community in which he or she lives. 

By definition a person who is not an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cannot be employed (on any basis) to perform the duties of an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identified role.

Applicants to this position may have to provide confirmation of their Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage. Requesting proof of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage from applicants helps to make sure that this intention is honoured.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).

The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.