Research Fellow

About the role

We are seeking a Research Fellow to join our team, and support in delivering the important and rewarding research that Wardliparingga is doing with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in South Australia and across the Nation.

The focus of this position will be to provide high level research support across a variety of research projects within Wardliparingga. You will work with our team to conduct and contribute to high quality mixed methods research in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, that will lead to improving health and social outcomes for the population.

If you share our values and principles of research conduct, we want you to join our research team!

Key responsibilities include:

• Embedding Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing into the development, implementation and evaluation of research.
• Aboriginal leadership in research activities and outcomes.
• Developing and maintaining relationships within the theme, within SAHMRI, with Aboriginal communities and organisations, and with external partners, which are critical to the successful development, implementation, and translation of research.
• Supporting and monitoring achievement of project milestones using appropriate systems, tools and techniques for proactive project management and achieving rigorous, safe and impactful research within a timely manner
• Preparing resources and/documentation required to successfully keep collaborating communities, organisations, and research partners engaged and informed.
• For discrete projects, conduct rigorous research including project establishment, community engagement, data collection, analysis, reporting and knowledge translation.
• Communicating research findings and assist with the development and implementation of knowledge translation activities, within high impact peer-reviewed journals, at conferences and within committees and other bodies relevant to the role
• Contributing to and development of competitive grant applications for related work.

About You

The successful candidate will possess the following key attributes:

• A post graduate health-related degree or equivalent experience in health or social services
• Lived experience of Aboriginal community protocols.
• Experience and/or demonstrated ability to work in a culturally safe, sensitive and accountable manner with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous individuals, communities and stakeholders.
• Experience, skills and demonstrated ability in leadership.
• Experience, knowledge and skills in project management.
• Experience in research, including an understanding of research processes and skills in a range of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and be a role model to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Aboriginal ways of working and leadership.
• Demonstrated academic or government writing ability.
• Demonstrated high level organisational skills to manage competing demands and meet project timelines together with sound problem-solving skills.
• High-level verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present information effectively and clearly to a wide audience.

Special Requirements

• Some out of hours work and travel may be required.
• DCSI Employment Screening will be required.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values and our institute is dedicated to grow a culture that pursues, enables and demands research excellence. We are proud of the work we do and work hard as a team to make a positive difference to the community.  Our values of excellence, innovation, courage, integrity and teamwork are what help us achieve our goals. If these are also your values and goals, apply today.

As a not-for-profit organisation, SAHMRI employees can access salary packaging options up to $15,900. Salary packaging lets you pay for things like the everyday costs of living with money from your salary before tax. This reduces your taxable income, meaning you could pay less tax and take home more of what you earn. For more information on salary packaging please see the Maxxia website.

For a copy of the position description, please click here.

For more information, please contact Odette Pearson at Odette.Pearson@sahmri.com

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply