Bloom HR Hiring for Research and Data Officer at Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia Full Time

The Organisation

Bloom is partnering with the newly-created National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Association (NATSIHA).

NATSIHA’s purpose is to facilitate access to quality, accessible, affordable, and culturally appropriate housing to help empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, families, and communities to optimise their health and wellbeing and improve their employment opportunities, access to education, connection to community and sense of home.

This is a unique opportunity to join the national peak body organisation at the start of the journey, as they work to grow and strengthen the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing sector. NATSIHA will lead the way in implementing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Data Strategy that is underpinned by the principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty and will support capability building across the sector to harness data as a cultural, strategic and economic asset.

The Role

The Research and Data Officer plays a critical role in effective data collection, management, analysis, ing and storage as well as assisting in data strategy and research initiatives.

The role will involve developing and implementing a comprehensive Data Management strategy whilst collecting relevant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing data to support evidence-based gap analysis to assist in policy and project work.

This role is instrumental in leading data-driven strategies, fostering positive change, and working towards improving housing conditions and opportunities for the Aboriginal community.

Responsibilities

• Identify, collect, manage and analyse relevant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing data from various sources, including locations not yet utilised or explored by the organisation,
• Perform advanced data analysis using statistical techniques and data visualisation tools.
• Regular ing on new and existing data to assist in Policy and gap analysis,
• Oversee NATSIHA’s data management framework, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and integrity of data across systems.
• Work alongside senior teams to develop data strategy, policies, protocols, practices and tools related to data collection and analysis interpretation
• Ensure compliance with Indigenous Data Governance principles

Skills and Experience:

• 3 years working within a similar data based role across Housing or a NFP Organisation
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (desirable)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong SQL knowledge and data analysis programming language
• Previous experience collecting, managing and analysing housing and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data, with a preface on data collection
• Passionate about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community with ties to the people and culture

We strongly encourage applications from First Nation’s Peoples. NATSIHA is aiming for a 70% Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander workforce.

Learn more about NATSIHA on LinkedIn and follow them at this link: https://www.linkedin.com/company/natsiha/

Benefits

NATSIHA employees can salary package up to $15.9K tax-free each FBT year. Employees can receive 6-12% more take-home pay. Funds can also be transferred onto a CBB Salary Packaging Card, which lets your use tax-free dollars to pay for groceries, petrol and other household goods.

Some employees may also be able to access the Remote Area Benefit (RAB) scheme, which is a tax concession from the Australian Federal Government that allows eligible employees to claim up to 50% of certain expenses associated with living and working in a remote location, including some travel costs.

Applications will be assessed as soon as they are received so please do not delay in submitting your application. A cover letter and completion of the screening questions is essential.

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact Katie Iacullo on email to [email protected].