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Location: Darwin

Employment ​Type: Full Time

Salary Range: $280,000 to $320,000

About Aboriginal Investment NT

Aboriginal Investment NT is a corporate Commonwealth entity, established under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (Northern Territory) 1976, and designed in partnership with Aboriginal Territorians. Our purpose is to work with Aboriginal Territorians to achieve economic, social and cultural impact through innovative approaches to investments, beneficial payments and other financial assistance.

To support this, we have initial grant funding of $180 million and an investment corpus of $500 million. Our Aboriginal-controlled board share a vision of self-determination, with Aboriginal Territorians at the centre of our work. 

Position Purpose: 

The Chief Investment Officer is a key senior executive role within Aboriginal Investment NT, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The role is responsible for providing strategic leadership and operational oversight to all of Aboriginal Investment NT’s commercial and nation-building investment activities including requirements to deliver our 2024-2029 Strategic Investment Plan.

A position description is available at www.aboriginalinvestment.org.au/chief-investment-officer/

Key responsibilities include: 

Leadership and management

• Providing strategic leadership and organisational oversight to Aboriginal Investment NT's Investments Group.
• Leading Aboriginal Investment NT’s investment activities including opportunity identification and the planning and execution of transactions necessary to invest including via co-investment with other institutional investors.
• Providing authoritative advice, regular updates and verbal and written reports to the CEO, Board, Board Committees and Executive Team, including in relation to strategic, operational, financial and risk management issues within the Investments Group.
• Maintaining effective communication with direct reports to ensure advice provided and decisions made are well informed and holding direct reports accountable to their responsibilities and results.
• Embedding a culture of risk management and compliance with Aboriginal Investment NT’s statutory and regulatory obligations, for example the Public Governance Performance & Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA Act).
• Building, developing and managing key strategic internal and external professional relationships - this may include promoting, representing and negotiating on behalf of Aboriginal Investment NT, and managing the performance of external investment service providers

Oversight of investments activities

• Driving excellence, timeliness and continuous improvement across Aboriginal Investment NT's investments activities to achieve the organisation's operational and organisational objectives.
• Developing the internal systems and capabilities and relationships with third parties to support the Board and Investment Committee decision-making and oversight.
• Driving expert financial and investment analysis and ensuring activities are supported by sound regional and sectoral modelling, working jointly with investment analysts and other external advisors as required.
• Developing appropriate internal controls, fraud controls, risk management and compliance frameworks for investment activities.
• Working with Aboriginal Traditional Owners, communities and enterprises to build Aboriginal Investment NT’s pipeline of potential impact investment opportunities

Your passion, commitment and cultural capability to work with Aboriginal people and communities to achieve self-determination will be vital to your success in this role, as will your:

• Understanding of the issues affecting Aboriginal people in the NT, and the ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal people.
• Understanding of traditional and impact investment principles and approaches, as well as portfolio and risk management requirements.
• Demonstrated experience working at an executive level in a complex organisational setting.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead a range of complex projects through partnerships with people across different business areas, functions and organisations and deliver timely and high-quality outcomes.
• Proven influencing, negotiation and relationship-management skills in an environment requiring highly developed interpersonal skills, and a proven capacity for highly effective communication with a range of stakeholders, including Aboriginal people and organisations and government representatives.
• Demonstrated effective people management to support and create the conditions for highly-functioning, productive and engaged teams.
• High level of autonomy and thought leadership.

Desirable skills and abilities

• Understanding of NT Aboriginal communities, nation-building, self-determination and community development principles and approaches.
• Experience in Board governance and public accountability and reporting, particularly under the PGPA Act.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field.

Closing date: 23 September 2024