Indigenous Education Engagement Officer (Identified Role - Indigenous)

CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

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• The opportunity
• Embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Science and Knowledges into the classroom
• Support local schools to implement student-centric projects that encourage STEM inquiry
• Join CSIRO - Australia's leading scientific research organisation

The CSIRO Education and Outreach team aims to inspire the pursuit of STEM education among students and the community to develop the best STEM talent for Australia. As part of this work, the team is delivering a STEM engagement program focused on teacher engagement in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The program is designed to show teachers and students how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples created, developed, and used high-level science inquiry skills for over 65,000 years.

As the Indigenous Education Engagement Officer, you will work with teachers to implement student-centred inquiry-based STEM projects in schools that nurture student's interest in STEM. You will facilitate the delivery of workshops focused on local traditional knowledges and practices and deliver face-to-face and online training including modelling the delivery of inquiry units in the classroom. The workshops will require building relationships and working closely with existing and new stakeholders (Traditional knowledge holders) in our cluster locations.

Your role will also involve answering teacher questions, facilitating the sourcing of materials, and supporting teachers to feel confident to deliver an inquiry-based learning approach and embed Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander Knowledges.

• Your duties will include
• Understanding how to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges into the classroom and transferring this understanding to teachers.
• Establishing, maintaining, and fostering ongoing and culturally respectful relationships with diverse cohorts of students, schools, teachers, families, and the local community to support the engagement, uptake and delivery of the program.
• Communicating and building relationships with schools in the Pilbara region of WA.
• Building and maintaining positive relationships with sponsors and other key stakeholders.
• Contributing to the development of teacher professional development resources on student-centred, inquiry-based STEM projects in an Indigenous context in schools.
• Delivering the program face-to-face to teachers in schools and supporting implementation of the program.
• Managing and promoting participant enrolment in the digital learning experience, while providing support to facilitate the program's implementation in schools.
• Managing workload and competing priorities to ensure program outputs are delivered on time.
• Assisting with the monitoring and evaluation activities for the programs and preparing timely written reports for program partners.
• Generating improved solutions in work situations, trying creative ways to deal with problems and opportunities.
• Other duties as directed.
• Location
• Perth or Pilbara regions, WA
• Salary
• AU$96k - AU$109k per annum plus 15.4% superannuation
• Tenure
• Specified Term until 30 Jan 2026, Full-time
• Reference
• 97285
• To be considered you will need
• An undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline such as STEM Education or STEM Communication, and / or extensive relevant professional experience with a focus on Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander people, knowledges and perspectives.
• A strong demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies, cultures, and the issues affecting these cultures in Australian society and a demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Experience working with or developing education programs or resources in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context, preferably utilising inquiry based learning methodology, including experience delivering teacher professional learning face-to-face.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills and proven ability to establish and maintain strong and productive working relationships and networks with teachers, stakeholders, and other external and internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrated project coordination skills and experience in managing multiple priorities with competing deadlines, as well as the ability to demonstrate initiative, self-motivation, and flexibility.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity, successfully adapting to changing circumstances as well as the ability and wil