/ Position description
Position title / Army Indigenous Development Program Team Leader Mentor
Position number: / Supernumery
Position classification: / Administration Officer 5
Course: / Army Indigenous Development Program
Directorate: / Alliance Management
Location: / Batchelor
Tenure: / 19th April 2018 to 29th November 2018
Supervisor: / Project Manager
Positions supervised: / Students
Special features of position: / Rotating roster

Position overview

The AIDP is a team effort by military staff, academic lecturers and mentors to help prepare students for enlistment into the Army or to help students further their career in a Regional Force Surveillance Unit.

The Team Leader Mentor will also be responsible for:

1.Day to day management of the other mentors and the tutor, including rostering and attendance management;

2.Liaison with DIDP OC, military staff, and tutor;

3.Compilation of the mentors and tutors' monthly reports and to participate in a regular progress-monitoring meeting with relevant military staff no less than once per month;

4.Weekly, meetings with the DIDP OC and other key personnel to coordinate the running of the program, plan upcoming events and address any problems as they arise; and

5.Work with the DIDP OC to develop risk assessments for all mentor led weekend activities and seek approval for the activity.

Mentoring duties include:

1.Mentoring of participants throughout the program on campus, during any mentor led off-site activities, and during travel to and from activities or to home communities for stand-down.

2.Arrange for suitable Indigenous role models to provide a weekly presentation to the AIDP trainees (15 weekly presentations).

3.Provision of evening and weekend activities. These activities are to include the delivery of life skills training, cultural awareness sessions, group team building and other activities, including one community engagement activity. These activities should aim to improve the trainees' life skills, encourage and improve teamwork, build confidence and develop leadership qualities.

4.Mentoring of individual trainees to ensure optimal personal development and the appropriate management of any issues being faced to ensure that at the end of the program, each trainee can transition into the workforce or further education.

5.Mentor and support trainees while completing homework and other education tasks.

6.Liaise with military staff to provide trainees' transportation to activities, appointments and vocational training.

7.Develop and maintain accurate records on each trainees' progress and challenges throughout the programs, including any actions required to remediate disadvantages. Liaise with the tutor and military staff on any issues being faced by the trainees. Provide written monthly reporting in a consistent form to the relevant Officer Commanding (OC) DIOP

8.Design and deliver a contemporary life skills program. The program should aim to improve the skills, team work and leadership of the AIDP trainees.

Essential selection criteria

  1. Demonstrated ability to manage a small rostered team, ability to compile monthly reports and participate in monthly progress-monitoring meetings with relevant military personnel;
  2. Mentors should hold relevant mentor experience and or training; Certificate IV in Mentoring Diverse Groups or equivalent;
  3. The ability to work collaboratively with Defence staff and respond to reasonable advice;
  4. Hold a current Driver's Licence. LR License and have experience driving a 22-seater bus preferred
  5. Hold a nationally recognised current first aid certificate;
  6. Demonstrated ability to assist with trainee's academic tasks and associated homework;
  7. Demonstrated self-starting ability and demonstrate initiative as required;
  8. Ability to demonstrate and role model team work and peer support behaviors;
  9. Demonstrable professional behaviorwith the ability to lead by example; and
  10. Proven capacity to work effectively within the social, political and cultural environments of Australian Indigenous organisations, an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and ability to work closely with Indigenous Australians.

Note: Copies of qualifications and evidence of experience MUST be submitted.

Version:
2018/01 / Authorised Officer
Director; Alliance Management / Approved:
31Jan 2018 / Review by:
1 Jan 2019