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 environment
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 choices.
Yarn2Action provides advocacy with a particular focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability, their families, carers and communities.
Applications close 5:00pm, 19 November 2026, unless filled prior.
For more information about ADA Australia, visit adaaustralia.com.au or contact **@adaaustralia.com.au.
ADA Australia is committed to a culturally safe, respectful and inclusive workplace where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge, connections and contributions are respected and valued.
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Disability Advocate in Gold Coast employer: ADA Australia
ADA Australia is an exceptional employer that prioritises the rights and wellbeing of older people and those with disabilities, fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment. With a commitment to professional development and a values-driven culture, employees are empowered to influence meaningful change while enjoying competitive pay and generous salary packaging options. Located in vibrant Brisbane, team members benefit from a collaborative atmosphere that celebrates diversity and encourages continuous improvement across safety, risk, and compliance practices.
