Financial Literacy Officer

Children’s Ground is a First Nations organisation committed to systems change to ensure dignity, justice and equity for all children and families. Our work focuses on national reform as well as evidencing a new way of working. The Children’s Ground Approach is a whole of community, whole of life approach that privileges First Nations knowledge systems and practice.

Over the course of a generation, led by local expertise, we create and deliver an integrated system centred on learning, development and wellbeing that responds to the child and their family through key transition points from pre-birth to young adulthood. Our approach recognises the cultural, social, and economic strength of our communities, ensuring a future for our children and grandchildren that gives them freedom, opportunity and rights to their culture and identity.

This part-time role works Monday - Thursday to promote and support the financial independence of families working within Children's Ground. A considerable determinant of wellbeing is financial independence. Many families that Children’s Ground works with experience poverty and associated issues such as poor health outcomes, poor housing, overcrowding, intergenerational trauma, and high stress. Addressing economic insecurity through employment is one way of addressing these issues.

This role works to increase awareness of resources for financial management and the importance of staying out of debt, setting up savings strategies and household budgeting. This is a long-term approach to greater economic agency and security across the community. Working to reduce financial stress positively impacts wellbeing for individuals, families and communities.

The role demands strong people skills and the successful candidate will need to have a current Driver's License.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate programs so that participants can increase their understanding of financial systems, services and rights to reduce financial stress and worry.
• Engage employees in formal financial literacy training (both external and internal).
• Provide individual support to persons with poor literacy and financial understanding.
• Work closely with the Workforce Development Coordinator and People & Culture Coordinator to ensure staff workplace documentation is in place.
• Support communities with food security initiatives.
• Develop trusting and respectful relationships with people in the region.
• Monitoring and evaluation - ensuring records and data collection is reported into Children's Ground systems.
• Assistance to First Nations staff with weekly timesheet entries.
• Assistance to First Nations staff with internal IT systems, phones.

Qualifications, certificates, professional membership or experience required:

• Experience working within First Nations families.
• Strong people skills – teamwork, communication.
• Ability to work in a flexible team environment.
• Current Driver’s Licence.
• Willingness to undergo a National Police Check and obtain an NT OCHRE Working with Children Check.

What we offer:

• Salary Classification: Children's Ground EBA Level 5.1 $106,892 + 12% superannuation + bonus leave.
• Salary Sacrifice options to increase take home pay (dependant on individual circumstances).
• A collaborative, purpose driven organisation contributing to First Nations led systems change.

The preferred candidate will be required to undertake relevant pre-employment checks, including a National Police Check and Working with Children Clearance (NT). In line with our workforce development strategy, Children's Ground strongly encourages and supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants to apply.