Financial Counsellor

Financial Counsellor Adelaide

• Fixed Term Part Time (0.8)
• Base salary range of $102820 to $107473 (pro-rata) per annum plus 12% superannuation (including leave loading)
• SCHADS level 5
• Suitably qualified and experienced First Nations candidates are encouraged to apply

Employee benefits

1. Salary packaging available
2. 6 weeks annual leave
3. 5 days additional mini-break non-accrued leave OR two return airfares to your base Australian capital city
4. Up to $2000 reimbursed towards relocation costs if required
5. $500 wellbeing payment per annum (not cumulative)

About MoneyMob Talkabout

MoneyMob Talkabout isnt your average not-for-profit. Were a values-led mob on a mission to make sense of money for everyone. We work alongside Anangu communities across Adelaide the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands and the Northern Territory delivering financial counselling capability casework and education programs that make a real difference.

We are seeking candidates who:

• Have maturity and life experience.
• Live with integrity and have a passion for First Nations self-determination in Australia.
• Are open transparent and inclusive.
• Are life-long learnersflexible and adaptable to our organisational culture
• Have clients needs at the heart of their work.
• Want to work for a specialist organisation with a strong purpose.

Our Values

These values guide all aspects of our work including our service delivery advocacy governance and management.

COURAGE: We are committed to advocating strongly for change and creating a more just and inclusive environment.

EMPOWERMENT: We work to support First Nations people to be in control and work towards achieving independence rights opportunities and recognition of the inherent value of their culture and communities.

INTEGRITY: Honesty openness accountability fairness and inclusiveness must be at the core of everything we do and are.

INSIGHT: Our actions and services are grounded in our organisational knowledge evidence and ethics; the wisdom of the people organisations and communities working alongside us; current thinking and research about what works nationally and internationally.

INNOVATION: We are a creative and agile organisation motivated to continually improve adapt and develop innovative solutions that add value and are valued by the communities we work with.

About the Role

As a Financial Counsellor in our Financial Wellbeing Service in Adelaide youll be part of a small but mighty team that believes in doing things differently. Youll be comfortable working from an assertive outreach approach getting out of the office alongside your financial capability colleagues and visiting clients in their homes community locations and wherever people feel most at ease or may be.

Youll walk alongside clients and their families helping them tackle the real issues behind financial stress. Its hands-on human-centred work that blends advocacy negotiation and education and counselling to help people build lasting financial confidence.

Youll work within a holistic trauma-informed and culturally respectful framework and help us continue shaping how that looks in practice. Together were building pathways to financial resilience and wellbeing that truly fit the local community.

The Financial Counsellor should have:

1. Diploma of Community Services Financial Counselling
2. Minimum of two years experience in community services work with complex clients (experience with First Nations clients and/or in a remote setting highly desirable)
3. Passion for social and economic justice and an understanding that poverty is political and structural
4. Skills/experience in case management including the ability to support clients with readiness to make financial change meeting needs goal setting and advocacy
5. Excellent verbal written organisational IT and problem solving skills
6. Openness to continuous learning doing things differently
7. Resilient calm and able to cope with consistent pressure and volume of workload
8. Emotionally intelligent with awareness of own behaviour and impact on others

In Your First Six Months Youll:

• Meet your colleagues and clients
• Undertake cultural awareness and trauma informed practice training
• Get out into the community through assertive outreach visiting local cultural organisations and contacts
• Work collaboratively within a holistic trauma-informed and culturally respectful framework and help shape how we do things together
• Be part of a passionate supportive team that values laughter openness and shared learning in a workplace where every voice matters

Note: Community work requires good psychological and physical fitness. Due to the demands of the environment this type of work is not recommended for people who have or are experiencing significant and unresolved trauma/mental ill health major life upheavals or certain physical/chronic illnesses.

Next Steps:

IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING AN APPLICATION PLEASE READ THE POSITION DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY.

THIS CAN BE ACCESSED ON OUR WEBSITE contact for documents

To discuss the role please contact Carolyn Cartwright on (08)

Applicants must address the selection criteria (no more than two pages) and provide references from two recent direct supervisors.

Please Note:

Interviews will take place as suitable applications are received