Fixed Term, Full Time Appointment | Backfill contract until October 2027

Professional Employee Level 8

Annual salary up to $122,491 pa + 17% superannuation & 6 weeks annual leave

Casuarina Campus | Larrakia Country

About the Position

The Safer Communities Team Leader provides strategic and operational leadership to CDU’s Safer Communities student service, ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed prevention and response support and activities across gender-based violence, racism, safety, bullying, and harassment and ensures LGBTQIA+ inclusion for CDU students. This role also manages student ambassadors representing Student Support (WARAtahs), who contribute to the ideation, planning, and delivery of events, activities, initiatives, and programs aimed at promoting respect, wellbeing, and equity.

The position ensures CDU meets compliance obligations under the National Code (particularly Standard 2), delivers complex case coordination, oversees discloser/respondent support arrangements, and drives institutional cultural change initiatives. The Team Leader plays a critical role in data management, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring CDU remains a safe and respectful community for all students across on-campus, online, regional and VET environments.

The Team Leader works autonomously and collaboratively to identify current and emerging safety risks, implement best-practice prevention programs, and strengthen CDU’s organisational capability to respond to student incidents involving violence, discrimination, or harm.

About You

To be successful, you will require:

- Relevant degree qualifications and registration (or eligibility) with an appropriate professional association.
- Extensive experience providing trauma-informed responses to gender-based violence, bullying, harassment or other safety-related behaviours.
- Demonstrated leadership experience, including supervising multidisciplinary teams.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in culturally diverse contexts, including First Nations and international student cohorts.
- Strong understanding of best-practice approaches to complex case management, risk assessment, and crisis response.
- Ability to exercise sound professional judgment, uphold confidentiality, and operate within legislative, ethical, and organisational frameworks.




- Experience in data collection, report writing and contributing to program evaluation and continuous improvement.
- High-level digital literacy, including use of case management systems and office software applications.
- Capacity to work independently and collaboratively, demonstrating ethical, anti-discriminatory and culturally safe practice.
- Commitment to the University’s values.

Remuneration

Appointment to this role will be at Professional Employee Level 8. The base salary will be in the range of $108,349 - $122,491 per annum. The total remuneration package will be in the range of $126,768 - $143,314 per annum, including 17% superannuation.

First Nations Priority Recruitment Measures

While this vacancy is open to all applicants, First Nationsapplicants are strongly encouraged to apply & will be grantedpriority consideration for this vacancy, in accordance with s57 ofthe Anti-Discrimination Act 1992 (NT) 1992. More information onFirst Nations Priority Recruitment at CDU.

What’s in it for you?

- An enviable lifestyle in the spectacular Northern Territory
- 17% superannuation
- Up to six weeks of paid annual leave
- Up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave (primary care giver), in addition to government payments (eligibility criteria apply)
- Recognition of prior service with another Australian university / NT Government for Long Service Leave (recognition applied to qualifying period only)
- Ability to negotiate transfer of leave entitlements under the Public Employment (Mobility) Act 1989
- Free on-campus parking in designated areas
- Employee Assistance Program
- Salary Packaging opportunities
- An employer who values your contribution to building a bigger, better and stronger University
- Work with a University committed to changing people’s lives for the better through training, education, and research
- Opportunities for professional development, paid study and career progression
- Access to over 5,000 courses via LinkedIn learning corporate membership





Do you need support?

CDU endeavours to establish and maintain effective systems and processes that support a flexible and inclusive workplace culture. Adjustments can be made to support you throughout the application and selection process, as well as during employment, in line with the University’s Workplace Adjustment Policy and Procedure.

Diversity and Inclusion

At CDU, we actively celebrate our diversity and believe that our differences will make CDU the most connected University in Australia. We are committed to maintaining a culture where every member of our University community feels respected, safe, encouraged to speak up and supported in achieving their professional goals, and that they truly belong.

Work Health and Safety

CDU is committed to providing a physical and psychological secure working environment. Confidential support can also be provided to employees who may be experiencing domestic, family, or sexual violence outside the workplace.

Charles Darwin University is guided by our core values of Courage, Kindness, Openness, Innovation, and Leadership, which shape our daily actions and decisions. CDU is committed to being a safe and inclusive organisation for everyone.

As part of the Charles Darwin University’s commitment to providing a safe, respectful and rewarding workplace, and to meeting our legal obligations, we ask candidates to declare whether they have ever been investigated for an allegation of Gender Based Violence or found to have engaged in conduct that constitutes Gender Based Violence, in any previous employment or through any legal process. This information assists us to comply with the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender Based Violence and will be considered when assessing a candidate’s suitability for employment, to help ensure the safety of our University community.

You make CDU. And we want you to be exactly who you are.

Applications Close: Sunday 16th July 2026

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For a confidential discussion about the position please contact Sonya Enkelmann on 08 8946 7*** or via email ***************@cdu.edu.au

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📌 Team Leader Safer Communities (Northern Territory)
🏢 Charles Darwin University
📍 Northern Territory