AUSTRALIAN BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS - ABV

We currently have a volunteer opportunity for the following:

Intellectual Property Researcher

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What we do

ABV delivers economic change to communities across the globe through donated business expertise. We create self-reliance and resilience and leave a lasting economic impact – one that endures generations.

How we do it?

We offer meaning opportunities from skilled business professionals to volunteer their expertise across communities in Australia and the Pacific. We work with communities to understand their needs and work with our Skilled Business Volunteers to match them to projects, that bring the right skills at the right time to help deliver outcomes.

About the opportunity

Primary Purpose of the Position

Cultural burning is a proud tradition with proven benefits for addressing climate change and bushfire risks. It is practiced by Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs) across the South Coast of NSW with strong support from local councils and local Rural Fire Services (RFS).

There are many challenges to practicing cultural burning, including multiple stakeholders and their hierarchies, complex application of jurisdiction and authority, multiple risk management plans and policies, and a lack of meaningful Indigenous contribution to decisions.

The focus of this assignment is the unique understanding of local cultural knowledge related to cultural burning. For example, many groups/people promote themselves as cultural burns practitioners but are not from local Aboriginal communities where they promote and conduct cultural burns.

ABV will co-facilitate a workshop (date to be confirmed) where the key stakeholders and decision makers will come together with cultural burns practitioners of South Coast NSW. This will be very important for the local Indigenous community to raise awareness and highlight their concerns about cultural burning. In preparation for this workshop, there is a vital need for solid understanding of the IP around cultural knowledge from a legal perspective as well as what is being practiced.

Tasks: · Research, collate and analyse relevant data and information · Document and map out the current situation in this space. · Showcase this information in a way that is accessible for multiple and diverse stakeholders (this can be further discussed, and communications support can be provided)

Selection Criteria: Work experience and solid knowledge of IP, especially as it relates to Aboriginal issues. Ability to understand and synthesise complex information and deliver it in a practical and accessible way.

Role information:

• Key Dates. Start ASAP.
• Duration: 8 week duration 3-4 hours per week
• Location: Online

Interested to Apply?

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Please note, if you are interested in applying for the role, we will require you to meet the following criteria:

• Australia Citizen or have visa work rights
• Hold a valid or complete a National Police Check
• Hold a valid or complete a Working with Children Check
• Covid 19 Vaccination

What will happen next?

Our volunteer recruitment team will be in touch with you to confirm the outcome of your application.

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ABV is an equal opportunity employer and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally & linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are encouraged to apply for this position.