Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Disability Advocate Use Your Experience to Strengthen Voice and Choice

Are you passionate about using advocacy to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to exercise their rights and make informed choices?

Join ADA Australia’s Yarn2Action team as an

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Disability Advocate.

This

fixed-term opportunity to 30 June 2027

can be worked full-time or part-time. You’ll provide culturally safe advocacy and representation, help people navigate complex systems, and strengthen connections with communities and services.

Why Join ADA Australia?

$53.43 per hour + super + generous not-for-profit salary packaging benefits

Full-time or part-time options with flexible hybrid working

Meaningful, community-focused work with genuine impact

Gold Coast-based role with community outreach

Varied work across individual advocacy, community engagement and education

Supportive and collaborative team setting

About the Role

You’ll provide information, advocacy, referral and representation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, their families and unpaid carers.

Your work will include:

Supporting people to understand their rights, choices and available options

Providing individual advocacy and representation guided by each person’s wishes

Supporting people experiencing abuse, neglect, violence, discrimination or barriers to services

Helping clients navigate disability services and complaints processes, including the NDIS

Conducting culturally safe and respectful intake

Delivering information sessions, yarning circles and self-advocacy activities





Building relationships with communities and services, and representing Yarn2Action at events, workshops and forums

The role supports people across South East Queensland and may occasionally involve regional and overnight travel.

About You

We’re looking for someone with a strong understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, communities and protocols, combined with the advocacy, communication and problem-solving skills needed to support people through complex systems.

You’ll bring:

Experience working alongside Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, including supporting people to navigate services and achieve their preferred outcomes

Experience in advocacy, individual support, case management, service navigation or other relevant client-focused work

Knowledge of disability services and support options, or the ability to develop this knowledge

Confidence building relationships, communicating, negotiating and advocating with individuals, families, communities and service providers

Strong written communication, presentation and administration skills, including experience with client or data management systems

A relevant qualification in human services, social work, behavioural science or community services, or an equivalent combination of experience, education and/or training





Experience working specifically with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people with disability would be highly regarded but is not essential.

Your Experience May Come from Different Pathways

Your experience may come from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled services, advocacy, health, family support, housing, justice, community services or another rights-based setting.

What matters is your ability to work respectfully alongside people and use your experience to support their rights, choices and preferred outcomes.

What Success Looks Like

You’ll contribute to:

People understanding their rights, options and available pathways

Clients navigating disability services, complaints processes and complex systems with greater confidence

Strong connections between Yarn2Action, communities and service providers

Identified Position and Essential Requirements

This is an Identified Position. ADA Australia considers that being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld).

The position also requires:

Current National Criminal History Certificate

NDIS Worker Screening Clearance

Working with Children Blue Card

Willingness to undertake regional travel, including occasional overnight stays

About ADA Australia and Yarn2Action

ADA Australia is an independent not-for-profit organisation providing information, education, advocacy and legal services to help older people and people with disability understand and exercise their rights and make informed choice

📌 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Disability Advocate (Gold Coast)
🏢 ADA Australia
📍 Gold Coast