Position Classification: Health Manager Level 2 (Health Managers (State) Award)

Remuneration: $118,821.00 - $140,201.00 per annum, pro rata (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)

Employment Type: Permanent Full - Time

Hours Per Week: 38

Location: Negotiable across the Murrumbidgee Local Health District

Requisition ID: REQ701389

Closing Date: 25 November 2026

About The Role

Murrumbidgee Local Health District is seeking a Manager Aboriginal Engagement and Strategic Partnerships to lead and strengthen partnerships between MLHD, Aboriginal communities, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) and key stakeholders. The role ensures Aboriginal voices, perspectives and priorities inform the planning, design, delivery and evaluation of health services.

You will facilitate meaningful engagement and co-design processes, support culturally secure and responsive partnerships, manage projects and enable effective community participation in service improvement initiatives. The position also provides leadership, advice and cultural support to Aboriginal Health staff and stakeholders to advance MLHD strategic priorities and improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people and communities.

Being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a genuine occupational qualification for this position as described under Section 14(d) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW).

Key Accountabilities

- Support and contribute to the development, implementation,



monitoring and evaluation of Aboriginal health stakeholder and community engagement strategies that achieve the aims of the MLHD Strategic Plan and Aboriginal Health Frameworks.
- Support the Executive Director Aboriginal Health & Wellbeing to negotiate, establish and maintain formalised partnership arrangements with four Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services within MLHD, providing high-level administrative services and project management.
- Develop and maintain relationships with the Riverina Murray Regional Alliance (RMRA), including implementing, monitoring and reporting on the Local Decision Making Ngunggiyalali Accord and accompanying Health Schedule.
- Provide advice from an Aboriginal perspective on District programs and initiatives, including mapping of community-based service delivery, consultation and planning.
- Lead, monitor and participate in facility, program, management and partnership meetings across the district related to strategic planning, reporting and evaluation of Aboriginal health policies, strategies and services.
- Work with community partners under a shared decision-making model focused on genuine engagement, transparent negotiation, shared planning, monitoring and accountability.




- Promote the role of Local Health Advisory Committees with Aboriginal people and communities, with a focus on consumer engagement that improves the safety and quality of care for Aboriginal consumers.
- Prepare high quality reports, briefs, correspondence and other documents that inform decision making, as required by the Executive Director Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing.
- Lead and advocate for organisational change and project management, producing quality work within tight deadlines.
- Prepare and edit Aboriginal specific articles for Koori Grapevine each month for inclusion in the Murrumbidgee Matters Newsletter.

Essential Criteria

- Be of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent. Being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a genuine occupational qualification for this position as described under Section 14(d) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW). We need someone to bring their cultural knowledge and lived experience as an Aboriginal person to this role. As part of the recruitment process, we will ask you to provide documentation to confirm your Aboriginality and your cultural expertise will also be assessed through the recruitment process
- NSW Working with Children Check
- National Police Check
- Vaccination Category A
- Evidence of a current Class C drivers’ licence

Selection Criteria

- Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining effective partnerships with Aboriginal communities, ACCHOs and key stakeholders, including leading engagement, consultation and co-design processes that informed the developme

📌 Manager Aboriginal Engagement and Strategic Partnerships (Murrumbidgee River)
🏢 Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD)
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