Manager, Aboriginal Cultural Governance
- Provide cultural authority and senior leadership for Aboriginal governance in homelessness reform.
- Ensure Aboriginal communities have meaningful influence over decisions affecting homelessness outcomes.
- Advance Aboriginal self-determination through culturally safe and community-led approaches.
Department of Human Services
Job reference: 860606
Location: 5000 - ADELAIDE
Job status: Long Term Contract
Eligibility: SA Public Sector Employees only
Role Highlights
- Make a meaningful impact through strategic and expert communications approaches
- Positively impacting Aboriginal children and family lives
- Partner across government, NGOs, Aboriginal organisations and research sectors to drive system-wide outcomes
About the Business
Our Community and Aboriginal Partnerships Division helps to build community safety and wellbeing by providing support and services to children, young people and families, including those involved with the youth justice system, remote Aboriginal communities, and people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The division also supports DHS's Closing the Gap commitments.
Role Details
The Manager, Aboriginal Cultural Governance is a role within Community and Aboriginal Partnerships (CAP) and is accountable to the Director, Homelessness Systems and Partnerships (HSP) for:
• Providing cultural authority and senior leadership to establish formal Aboriginal governance, accountability and partnership mechanisms across homelessness system reform and stewardship.
• Ensuring Aboriginal people, communities and community-controlled organisations have meaningful influence over decisions affecting Aboriginal homelessness outcomes, without shifting government's accountability onto community.
• Advancing Aboriginal self-determination by embedding culturally safe, strengths-based and community-led approaches across strategy, commissioning, service access, access, practice, workforce reform, data sovereignty, evaluation and continuous improvement.
Special Conditions
Only people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent may apply (pursuant to Section 56(2) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984).
National Police Check required.
Some out of hours work may be required.
Some interstate and intrastate travel may be required.
Role Status: Term up to 30/06/2028
Salary Range: $144,421 (SSSM01)
Location: Adelaide
Enquiries: Lauren Moulds, 0466 801 011 Email: lauren.moulds@sa.gov.au
Diversity and Inclusion
DHS is committed to making our services and workplaces safe and inclusive for all people and ensuring the full diversity of the communities we serve are represented in our workforce, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability and/or neurodivergence, young people, older people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, LGBTIQA+ and gender diverse people.
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process. If you require assistance with this process, please contact us at dhsrecruitment@sa.gov.au and a member of the team will get back to you.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. We also celebrate the many strengths and skills people with disability and/or neurodivergent people bring to our workplace and acknowledge our role in ensuring a supportive work environment for people with disability and/or neurodivergent people to thrive in.
Applications close: 07/10/2026 11:30 PM
Attachments:
- Role Description - Manager Aboriginal Cultural Governance - SM1.pdf
Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
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