Aboriginal Community Engagement & Culture Officer (ACECO),

Albury Community Corrections

Location – Albury Community Corrections, Corrective Services NSW

Employment type – Ongoing - 35 hours per week (Flexible working hours)

Salary - $102,936 - $113,579, plus Employer's contribution to Superannuation and Annual Leave Loading. (Clerk Grade 5/6)

The team is excited to welcome Aboriginal staff with great cultural knowledge and/or experience to help make a difference and improve the lives of the diverse communities that we work with.

This position is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only

A Bit About Albury

Located on the border of New South Wales and Victoria, Albury offers the perfect blend of career opportunity and lifestyle. With excellent schools, recreational facilities, and a thriving local economy, Albury provides a welcoming regional community with all the conveniences of a larger city. Renowned for its exceptional food and wine culture, Albury is home to outstanding restaurants, cafés, and wineries. Surrounded by natural beauty and outdoor attractions along the Murray River, Albury is an ideal place to live, work, and grow.

Your role

As an Aboriginal Community Engagement & Culture Officer, you will provide advice and support to Community Corrections in the case management of identified offender groups in a culturally sensitive manner and ensure appropriate case plans and supervision is implemented consistent with CSNSW mission of reduction of re-offending.

You will also identify and build collaborative community networks and partnerships to improve the effectiveness of community program and services for identified people on supervised orders.

Community Corrections work with adults subject to court mandated orders. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners and seek to restore people’s dignity to promote agency and self-determination and to enable reintegration.

What You’ll Do





- Provide advice and guidance to community corrections staff on the scope of culturally appropriate interventions available to identified people on supervised orders.
- Work collaboratively with community networks and partnerships to improve the opportunities for identified people on supervised order.
- Liaise with community agencies especially identified communities to promote the aims of the community corrections.
- Provide culturally relevant information and strategies to support community corrections aims to enable successful reintegration.

What We’re Looking For

We are encouraging applications from persons, who are culturally aware and responsive to the needs of Aboriginal people and communities.

As we continue to build the diversity of our workforce, we acknowledge lived experience contributes to a perspective valuable to our work with the First Nations people.

While all Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants are welcomed, preference will be given to those who are culturally aware and responsive to the needs of Aboriginal people and communities and who meet the pre-established standards of the role.

Within the recruitment process, you will be required to show proof of Aboriginality – please see below for further clarification.

As an Identified role, this position is open only to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons.

Where a position is identified, an applicant’s race is a genuine occupational qualification under the exception in Section 14(d) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977.

Essential Requirements

- Current and valid driving licence and willingness to travel within NSW

There are two alternatives to confirming your Aboriginality, one of which must be uploaded to be considered for the role as follows.

Either Will Be Accepted

Confirmation of Aboriginality form

or

- is of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, and
- identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, and
- is accepted as such by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

What We Offer

- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work workplace
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and development opportunities to build a

📌 Aboriginal Community Engagement (Albury)
🏢 Nsw Department Of Communities And Justice
📍 Albury