THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TEAM
They are resourceful, innovative, collaborative, and a dedicated team of professionals.
Eastern Region
Regional Manager, Eastern Region
“I enjoy working with community, being out on the ground working at the grass roots level.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“I appreciate the model of how we work guided by community needs and self-determination as a core value.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“It has been a passion of mine, working and supporting my mob in empowerment for the past 20 years.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“It is amazing to see the self-confidence of our mob grow through the duration of a project.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“I just love the space of community development. To me, it is important to play a role in uplifting the community. This job gives me the ability to do this and importantly, I’m also able to build my own connections with the community and keep up with all of the cool things going on in community.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“I am inspired by the incredible goals, ideas and initiatives the communities we work with have.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“I am looking forward to embarking on a new journey working and supporting our mob’s vision and dreams.”
NT/ SA Region
Regional Manager (NT, SA, WA)
“I like to see the change and empowerment community development gives Aboriginal people.”
Senior Community Development Officer
”As a new CDO with Community First Development my highlight has come from my first project… it struck me that part of what Community First Development offer is ‘holding space’/’facilitating a space’ for magic to happen between our communities and volunteers.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“I love working in communities, especially remote, and working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“It’s satisfying seeing individuals, businesses, organisations, and communities achieving their goals or dreams and often, the work we do, assists them in bringing these dreams and goals forward by many years or becoming a reality.”
Western Region
Senior Community Development Officer
“I am passionate in standing up for and working with my people to achieve better outcomes and I love nothing more than learning from my elders and fostering empowerment amongst my people.”
Senior Community Development Officer
“Everything about this role is so rewarding in many different aspects, the ability to not only work in the region I live in but communities from all over… also seeing the peoples face light up when having discussion around their dream as well the emotions they go through in the process, this is grass roots, its empowering and just solid…..”
Senior Community Development Officer
“The most rewarding part of my role is to go out to community and sit with our people and get to share stories, information and harness their dreams to fruition.”
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