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The Jobs Bulletin provides a current list of jobs available in the community welfare and social policy sectors.

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ACOSS opportunities

Member opportunities

Are you passionate about supporting people to thrive? We are currently seeking a dedicated Bachelor Qualified Counsellor / Psychologist to join our team and make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals and their families.

In this role, you will:

  • Commit to six hours per week on a Tuesday or Thursday
  • Accommodate QPS (Queensland Police Service) referrals
  • Meet KPI’s based on funding requirements
  • Provide person-centred counselling and emotional support
  • Deliver evidence-based interventions
  • Work collaboratively with community partners
  • Empower clients to build resilience and achieve positive outcomes

Caboolture Community Care Inc is a not-for-profit organisation providing emergency relief and counselling to the residents of Moreton Bay North. We are looking for someone who is compassionate, professional, and committed to ethical practice. Initial contract will be for three (3) months with the possibility of extension.

If this sounds like you and you are ready to make a difference, we would love to hear from you.

Email resumes to [email protected] by Friday 21st August 2026.

About Think+DO Tank Foundation

Think+DO Tank Foundation (TDTF) is a community-led not-for-profit organisation based in Western Sydney that creates social change through creativity, collaboration, and community action. Since 2013, TDTF has worked alongside culturally and linguistically diverse communities, particularly women, children, and young people, to develop innovative programs that strengthen social inclusion, reduce disadvantage, and empower local voices. Through arts, social enterprise, community engagement, and multilingual initiatives, the Foundation helps create opportunities for people to connect, thrive, and shape positive change in their communities.

Salary: $130,000 FTE (pro rata 0.8FTE) + superannuation
Applications close: 14th September 2026 3:00 PM AEST
Organisation Reel: https://youtu.be/J1Dwt7z1xHI
 
The Role
Looking for a career move defined by real purpose? Are you an entrepreneurial and adaptable leader with strong project management and business development skills? Do you want to work directly with communities to explore their critical issues and to generate potential responses with them, using the arts and creative methodologies? This role could be for you. 
The Think+DO Tank Foundation (TDTF) has been successfully working in South Western Sydney since 2013 to ensure these communities have agency in shaping their lives. The newly created role of Chief Operations Officer (COO) will guide and manage TDTF operations, finance, governance, risk and people functions to enable TDTF work to grow. Success will be achieved when community-based experience and aspirations guide the development of public policy, programs, investment and solutions to address shared challenges. 
This four-day a week role will require most of the following experience: 
  • At least five years in a senior operations, finance or business leadership role, ideally within the non-profit, community or arts sectors, with sound financial judgement: able to own a budget, read and question financial reports, manage cashflow, and give the CEO and Board clear options; 
  • People-focused leadership who sets direction and makes decisions at an organisation-wide level, while remaining comfortable with ambiguity in a growing organisation: someone who develops team members, supports other managers, and helps build a positive, inclusive, experimental, courageous and culturally responsive culture;
  • Strong grasp of governance, risk and compliance; confidence preparing or overseeing Board papers;
  • Project management across a diverse portfolio of community-facing programs, with genuine commitment to community participation; and 
  • Cultural competence and demonstrated experience working respectfully and effectively with migrant, refugee and/or culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
We value intercultural expertise, diverse ways of thinking and the ability to work in more than one language relevant to the communities in which TDTF works. There are generous working provisions, including a modest amount of hybrid working arrangements alongside a regular presence in SW Sydney, and a salary of $130,000 FTE (pro rata 0.8FTE) + superannuation.
 
To find out more
A full Candidate Information Pack is available from the search consultant, Mary Jo Capps & Assoc. Email: [email protected] using the subject line: Chief Operations Officer enquiry via ACOSS. TDTF will not be handling or accepting applications directly. 
You are strongly urged to send your CV and arrange a consultation prior to submitting an application. Consultation period closes Thursday 10 September 5pm AEST.

Other opportunities

  • Building high-performing ICT services that enable organisational success
  • Work with the Executive and program leaders to advance Anglicare NT’s mission.
  • Join a respected community service organisation operating across the NT.

About Anglicare NT

Anglicare NT is a respected provider of quality human services across urban, regional, and remote areas. Anglicare NT offers a range of career opportunities in the community and social services sector in a diverse range of fields such as children and youth, family relationships and counselling, refugee and migrant, corporate services, financial counselling, mental health, disability and home care, social enterprises, and specialist homelessness services

Working with Anglicare NT, you will have access to:

  • Further training and development options.
  • Flexible working conditions; five (5) weeks annual leave.
  • A strengths-based environment.

We also offer great salary packaging options that can significantly increase your take-home pay.

About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Executive Manager Shared Services, the ICT Manager is responsible for leading ICT service delivery across Anglicare NT. This includes oversight of Helpdesk operations, infrastructure reliability, cyber security activities, vendor management and technology projects.

You’ll play a key leadership role in delivering a strong digital experience for staff across diverse locations while ensuring systems, data and users are secure and supported.

What We’re Looking For:

You are a proactive and solutions-focused ICT leader who thrives on improving systems and building strong relationships.     

  • Tertiary qualifications in IT or equivalent senior ICT management experience
  • Strong experience leading ICT support/helpdesk teams
  • Proven vendor and contract management experience
  • Experience in systems administration and infrastructure delivery
  • Demonstrated knowledge of cyber security frameworks and risk management
  • Ability to deliver ICT projects and improvement initiatives
  • Excellent communication skills, including translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences

 Note: The filling of this position is intended to constitute a special/equal opportunity measure under section 8(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), section 57 of the Antidiscrimination Act 1996 (NT) and section 12 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010.

Special Measures vacancies are open to everyone including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. However, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy.

As part of the recruitment process, please address the key selection criteria using the online application on the Anglicare NT website.

For further information on this exciting opportunity, please contact the Executive Manager Shared Services on (08) 8985 0000

Applications close COB Friday 10 July 2026

Applications for this position may be closed earlier than anticipated or extended at the discretion of the hiring manager.

Please note: It is a requirement that prior to commencing in this role, you must provide 100 points of identification to confirm Australian citizenship or eligibility to work in Australia; possess a Working with Children (Ochre Card), a current National Criminal History Check (within 3 months) and a valid NT driver’s licence. 

Unfortunately, we aren’t in a position to sponsor candidate visas. If you don’t have the independent right to work in the country you’re applying for, we will not be able to progress your application

Experience of working closely with and having a strong understanding of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander culture would be considered an advantage.

Anglicare NT is a Child Safe, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

COVID-19 Vaccination Status

Anglicare NT is committed to providing a safe working environment and taking all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that its people and the community are protected against vaccine-preventable diseases. The Australian Immunisation Handbook lists the immunisations recommended for healthcare professionals. Aged Care Support workers are strongly recommended to follow COVID vaccination recommendations provided in Australian Immunisation handbook (based on ATAGI advice)

Anglicare NT staff who do NOT work directly with vulnerable people will not be required to provide evidence of COVID 19 vaccination

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Employment Type: Permanent or fixed-term contract
Location: Sydney
Work Model: Hybrid
Date Posted: 30-Mar-2026

Purpose-led, faith-based organisation driving systemic change
Influence executive decisions and drive organisation-wide impact
Suited to candidates from social movements driving strategy and reform

The Organisation:

Wesley Mission is a faith-based organisation delivering essential services and advocacy to support people and communities across New South Wales, the ACT and nationally, including through programs such as Lifeforce suicide prevention.

Guided by its vision of “doing all the good we can because every life matters” , Wesley Mission combines frontline service delivery with a powerful advocacy voice – working not only to support individuals and communities, but to address the systemic drivers of disadvantage.

Grounded in the traditions of the Uniting Church and with a significant and complex operating model spanning aged care, housing, disability, mental health and community services, Wesley Mission is uniquely positioned to influence both practice and policy at scale.

The strategy, advocacy and engagement function sits at the heart of this ambition enabling Wesley Mission to exercise its prophetic voice, shape public debate, and drive long-term, systemic change.

Benefits & Culture

  • Purpose-led organisation combining service delivery with advocacy and reform
  • A values-driven culture with a clear voice, strong leadership and real impact
  • Executive-level salary package
  • Central Sydney location with hybrid working (2 days from home)

The Role

Reporting to the General Manager, Strategy, Advocacy & Engagement, this role will lead Wesley Mission’s organisational strategy and policy agenda, stewarding the full strategy lifecycle while driving priority reform initiatives.

This is a highly visible and influential role, working in close partnership with the executive and CEO to embed a clear, organisation-wide approach to strategy, business planning and policy development.

You will bring structure, clarity and momentum to key organisational priorities, establishing consistent planning frameworks, shaping a coherent and credible policy agenda. Ensuring advocacy is grounded in evidence, lived experience and strategic intent.

You will partner closely with service leaders, subject matter experts and external stakeholders, aligning strategy, policy and advocacy to maximise organisational impact.

Skills Required

You’re currently working in a comparable role within government, charity, politics, like-minded corporate or a similarly sophisticated organisation, and comfortable navigating scale, ambiguity and multiple stakeholder groups.

A strategic and outcomes-focused leader, you will bring experience operating in social change environments driving organisation-wide initiatives.

We also welcome applications from potential leaders ready to step into a broader, organisation-wide mandate.

You bring to the role:

  • Experience leading strategy, policy or reform agendas
  • Understanding of public policy and government decision-making
  • Experience translating organisational strategy into clear, actionable plans
  • Ability to synthesise complexity into concise and directive outputs
  • Experience building structure and process in evolving environments
  • A delivery mindset, with the ability to move from concept to implementation

This is a broad and influential role. If you are excited by the opportunity but do not meet every requirement listed, we encourage you to apply and tell us how your experience could contribute to Wesley Mission’s work.

An alignment with, and ability to work within, the values and ethos of a Christian organisation is important, while experience engaging with faith-based communities or church structures will be highly regarded.

If you are motivated by the opportunity to shape organisational strategy and drive meaningful reform, please submit your CV and covering letter responding to the skills required above or contact Judith Marks or Richard Green at NGO Recruitment on (02) 8243 0570 for a confidential discussion or to have a candidate information package sent to you.

Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

NGO Recruitment values equitable recruitment practices and is committed to representing candidates reflective of the diverse organisations and communities we work with. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds, ages, and identities, and are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs. If you are interested in this position and have most of the skills or experience we are looking for, please go ahead and apply.

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Employment Type: Permanent or fixed-term contract
Location: Deakin, Canberra ACT
Work Model: Full-Time
Salary: $155,000 – $165,000 per year

The Organisation:

The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) is the united strong national voice for local government, representing 538 councils across the country. In structure, ALGA is a federation of state and territory local government associations. The Association is a company limited by guarantee.

Our Mission is to achieve outcomes for local government through advocacy with impact and to maximise the economic, environmental and social wellbeing of councils and our communities.

Key activities for ALGA include:

  • Advocacy for ALGA’s policy priorities in the federal political sphere (i.e. across Federal Government, the Opposition and the federal parliament)
  • Representation of local government on national bodies, senior official committees and ministerial councils
  • Chairing and managing policy networks from across local government associations
  • Providing submissions to government and parliamentary inquiries
  • Enhancing the national reputation of local government and its role in the Australian system of government
  • Raising the concerns and aspirations of local government at the national level
  • Providing forums for local government to guide the development of national policies that have an impact at the local government level.

The Role

ALGA is about to launch the 2026 Disability Inclusion Guide for Local Government (the Guide). The Guide is an online resource that gives councils practical tools and tips to strengthen planning, build inclusion into everyday work, and respond to local priorities.

This role focuses on the next step: helping councils put the Guide into practice. You’ll work closely with councils (including First Nations councils) and lived-experience stakeholders to make sure implementation supports are useful, culturally safe and workable in different local government settings. A key part of the work is supporting ALGA’s Disability Inclusion Community of Practice (CoP), currently made up of

representatives from 35 councils across Australia, selected for their disability inclusion experience and lived experience.

You’ll need strong project management, stakeholder engagement and communication skills, and you’ll coordinate planning, delivery, reporting and evaluation with the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (DHDA) and state and territory local government associations.

Key responsibilities

The Project Officer will work closely with the Project Manager and jointly be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the implementation program, including:

  • Developing and maintaining a detailed implementation work plan, delivery schedule and risk register
  • Coordinating national promotion and engagement activities to increase awareness and uptake of the Guide (including webinars, digital communications, and member communications channels) with the support of our events team
  • Coordinating and supporting ALGA’s Disability Inclusion Community of Practice (CoP) and its working groups, including meeting planning, facilitation support, and follow-up actions
  • Designing and administering a national council survey and supporting structured stakeholder consultations to test awareness, usage and implementation challenges
  • Analysing and synthesising feedback from councils, CoP members, member associations and stakeholders into clear findings and recommendations
  • Preparing progress updates for the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (DHDA), including mapping insights to Australia’s Disability Strategy and the Inclusive Homes and Communities Targeted Action Plans
  • Coordinating co-design processes (with DHDA, CoP and relevant stakeholders) to develop practical implementation supports that address priority needs and barriers
  • Working closely with internal ALGA teams (including media and communications) to ensure consistent messaging and effective dissemination
  • Establishing and implementing an evaluation approach that measures reach (awareness and engagement), utilisation, and perceived value/impact, and using findings for continuous improvement
  • Supporting good governance and accountability, including procurement/contract coordination if required, and ensuring milestones and deliverables are met on time and within budget.

Skills, knowledge and experience

  • Demonstrated experience leading projects with multiple stakeholders and timebound deliverables (including planning, scheduling and risk management)
  • Strong ability to undertake research, analysis and synthesis to produce clear, evidence-based insights and recommendations
  • Ability to think critically and apply judgement, identifying key issues, risks and implications
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex information in plain language for non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated experience engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and building constructive working relationships (including with government and/or member organisations)
  • Experience supporting or delivering consultation and co-design processes, ideally with lived-experience stakeholders and/or culturally safe approaches
  • Ability to manage time and priorities effectively, including working across multiple workstreams concurrently
  • High attention to detail and a commitment to quality, accuracy and consistency of messaging
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a small team with a high level of delegated responsibility.

Qualifications

Tertiary qualifications are not required for this role. Qualifications or demonstrated experience in local government, public policy, program/project management, disability inclusion, community engagement, and/or evaluation will be well regarded.

Your application will include the following questions:

  • Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?
  • How many years’ experience do you have as a project officer?
  • How many years of project management experience do you have?

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