About Us

The Central Desert Regional Council (CDRC) is a unique, professional and friendly employer. We have remarkable employees, professional development and career pathways on offer.

The Council has a land area of approximately 282,000 square km and has nine Service Delivery centres located in the communities of Anmatjere (Ti Tree), Laramba, Engawala, Atitjere, Yuelamu, Nyirripi, Lajamanu, Yuendumu and Willowra. The region is brimming with beautiful landscapes and unique cultures.

Benefits of Working for Council

CDRC offers employees attractive employment conditions, including 6 weeks annual leave, plus 17.5% leave loading, 11.5% superannuation, generous personal, bereavement, cultural leave, salary packaging and study leave.

Included financial benefits: rental packages, relocation expenses, flexible working conditions and compensation for remote living opportunities. These can assist you to achieve your personal goals as well as work/life balance.

For more details on our total remuneration packages refer to our Remuneration Fact Sheet.

Personal Development Opportunities

CDRC is committed to helping its staff to be able to best serve the communities of Central Desert. This includes training staff when necessary, giving them more skills and capacity to do their work. This may include inhouse or external training. Some of the training institutes we use are listed below.

Batchelor Institute

The Batchelor Institute works with the Council to provide culturally appropriate training for the Council's staff across a variety of disciplines.  For more information please see www.batchelor.edu.au.

Charles Darwin University

For more information visit www.cdu.edu.au

Centre for Appropriate Technology

For more information visit cfat.org.au

Staff Counselling Services

Central Desert Regional Council has an Employee Assistance Program, which offers its staff and immediate family members up to five free counselling sessions. The available practitioners in the program are listed below.

EASA

The CDRC Employee Assistance Program includes EASA.
If you need help, you can contact them at 08 8953 4225 or at their website www.easa.org.au

Desert Minds

The CDRC Employee Assistance Program includes Desert Minds, a provider of counselling, mediation, and facilitation services to the Central Australian region.
If you need help contact them at 0482 579 047, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit their website desertminds.com.au

Organisational and Personal Psychological Services (OPPS)

The CDRC Employee Assistance Program includes OPPS.
If you need help contact them at 0447 130 955, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

WellMob

Social, emotional and cultural wellbeing online resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

WellMob brings together online resources made by and for Indigenous mob. Here you will find websites, apps, podcasts, videos, helplines, social media and online programs all with a focus on social and emotional wellbeing.

Check out their website at WellMob.org.au.

Contact Us

CDRC is seeking applicants with knowledge, experience, enthusiasm, resilience and self-motivation. We are serious about finding and employing the right applicants, with the right skills, attitudes, and transferable skills.

Enquiries should be directed to the People and Culture team at:

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone: 08 8958 9515
Postal: PO Box 2257, Alice Springs NT 0871

Vacancies

To view Council's vacancies go to the Vacancies page.