Our Yarning Advisory Group Member

We’re inviting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and community members from across Australia to join the Our Yarning Advisory Group at Library For All.

Our Yarning is a library of books created by and for community, designed to reflect the cultural identity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and spark a love of reading. These stories ensure cultural integrity and share a wide range of voices and perspectives.

Library For All is no ordinary Not-for-Profit.

At Library For All we believe in the power of working together with people who care deeply about making a positive impact. We’re proud to bring together passionate, kind, and driven individuals who want to create lasting change for children and communities.

As a social enterprise of Save the Children Australia, our mission is to make knowledge accessible to all equally. We have a proud history of leveraging innovation in our everyday work to deliver meaningful change for children’s education around the world. As a trusted partner to many of the world’s leading development agencies, we’re laser-focused on scaling our impact to create measurable change for millions more children.

We offer you: A place to make a difference

As a member of the Advisory Group, you’ll help maintain the cultural integrity of a special Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library. Your advice will ensure the books we publish are culturally respectful, inclusive, and truly reflect the voices and stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

You’ll be a valued advisor, advocate, and connector—helping us build strong community ties and share our work far and wide.

This part-time role can be done remotely and has a small honorarium for your cultural input into each meeting. Terms of the contribution is to be discussed in an interview.

You will make a difference by:

A place to feel valued

We welcome people from all regions, age groups, and backgrounds to ensure a wide range of voices are heard. Specific requirements include:

What’s involved:

Does this sound like the place for you?

We’d love to hear from you! Please send a short email or video to the Our Yarning Coordinator telling us:

Note: This opportunity is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates only.

Applications close COB, Saturday 13 September 2025

For more information about this position, please contact Jessica Wimbus, Our Yarning Coordinator at jessica.wimbus@libraryforall.org

Or for more information about a career at LFA and Save the Children Australia, visit our Careers Page.

*We understand the need for work-life balance. We've advertised this role as limited term engagement, but if you're looking for something different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and individual flexibility plans to ensure we’re providing you a personalised career.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. We’re dedicated to ensuring Library For All is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Library For All is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.

Library For All is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.