CONDITIONS:
Full-time, 40 hours per week, six-month probationary period
WHY JILYA:
Attractive salary, plus superannuation and salary sacrifice options.
Opportunities to collaborate with renowned industry leaders who serve on the Jilya Board including Dr Tracy Westerman, Dr. Leanne Holt, and Dr Sam Cooms.
Jilya is currently supporting 55 Indigenous psychology students through the Dr. Tracy Westerman Indigenous Psychology Scholarship program.
Founded by Dr. Tracy Westerman AM, one of Australia's top psychologists, Jilya is a leading organisation in Indigenous mental health and suicide prevention research.
More than TWO decades of Indigenous mental health and cultural competency data have been donated to Jilya. The organisation is actively engaged in globally significant work that aims to bring about substantial changes in existing systems.
Jilya is on the brink of launching a "National Indigenous Psychology Assessment & Treatment Centre."
ABOUT US:
The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health Aboriginal Corporation (Jilya) is a not-for-profit organisation that was founded by Dr Tracy Westerman to address the gaps in culturally informed and clinically validated approaches to improve outcomes for Indigenous peoples in Australia across the areas of mental health and suicide prevention, justice, child protection, and education.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Research Psychologist will be responsible for working within Jilya’s research arm which is focused on Indigenous mental health, suicide prevention and criminogenic research and evaluation. They will work with the Jilya Research Manager to ensure the advancement of research and evaluation priorities and, associated strategies including the development of funding and partnership opportunities. The expansion of Jilya’s research also includes supervising and supporting a caseload of Jilya psychology students at honours, masters and PhD levels in partnership with our scholarships manager and other Jilya staff. The successful candidate will ideally have a track record of peer reviewed publications and research grants, and a PhD or be a tenured academic in psychology or a relevant health or mental health discipline and have a strong understanding of Indigenous suicide prevention, mental health and well-being. Additionally, experience in managing relationships within the Aboriginal community controlled, non-profit, government and non-government sectors is required.
SELECTION CRITERIA
To be considered for this role, you will need to demonstrate the following essential criteria on your cover-letter:
Psychology Degree at Masters level minimum.
Research experience at a national level including a track record of data driven peer reviewed
publications.
Quantitative research skills including the use of inferential statistics, psychometric analysis, multivariate statistics. Candidate must have strong skills in the use of statistical software packages, preferably SPSS, EndNote, Excel and Word for managing descriptive and other statistics.
Demonstrated understanding of the operations of a not-for-profit organisation.
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Full-time, 40 hours per week, six-month probationary period
WHY JILYA:
Attractive salary, plus superannuation and salary sacrifice options.
Opportunities to collaborate with renowned industry leaders who serve on the Jilya Board including Dr Tracy Westerman, Dr. Leanne Holt, and Dr Sam Cooms.
Jilya is currently supporting 55 Indigenous psychology students through the Dr. Tracy Westerman Indigenous Psychology Scholarship program.
Founded by Dr. Tracy Westerman AM, one of Australia's top psychologists, Jilya is a leading organisation in Indigenous mental health and suicide prevention research.
More than TWO decades of Indigenous mental health and cultural competency data have been donated to Jilya. The organisation is actively engaged in globally significant work that aims to bring about substantial changes in existing systems.
Jilya is on the brink of launching a "National Indigenous Psychology Assessment & Treatment Centre."
ABOUT US:
The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health Aboriginal Corporation (Jilya) is a not-for-profit organisation that was founded by Dr Tracy Westerman to address the gaps in culturally informed and clinically validated approaches to improve outcomes for Indigenous peoples in Australia across the areas of mental health and suicide prevention, justice, child protection, and education.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Research Psychologist will be responsible for working within Jilya’s research arm which is focused on Indigenous mental health, suicide prevention and criminogenic research and evaluation. They will work with the Jilya Research Manager to ensure the advancement of research and evaluation priorities and, associated strategies including the development of funding and partnership opportunities. The expansion of Jilya’s research also includes supervising and supporting a caseload of Jilya psychology students at honours, masters and PhD levels in partnership with our scholarships manager and other Jilya staff. The successful candidate will ideally have a track record of peer reviewed publications and research grants, and a PhD or be a tenured academic in psychology or a relevant health or mental health discipline and have a strong understanding of Indigenous suicide prevention, mental health and well-being. Additionally, experience in managing relationships within the Aboriginal community controlled, non-profit, government and non-government sectors is required.
SELECTION CRITERIA
To be considered for this role, you will need to demonstrate the following essential criteria on your cover-letter:
Psychology Degree at Masters level minimum.
Research experience at a national level including a track record of data driven peer reviewed
publications.
Quantitative research skills including the use of inferential statistics, psychometric analysis, multivariate statistics. Candidate must have strong skills in the use of statistical software packages, preferably SPSS, EndNote, Excel and Word for managing descriptive and other statistics.
Demonstrated understanding of the operations of a not-for-profit organisation.
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