Grow your career

We provide services and programs that empower communities and improve social outcomes for Territorians.

As a human services agency, our career opportunities include frontline positions as well as leadership, policy and strategic roles across multiple program areas.

Growing your skills, knowledge, competencies and practice is one of our focuses.

Our agency has many functions and career paths in these areas:

• child protection - go to the Child Protection NT website
• youth justice
• housing
• domestic, sexual and family violence reduction
• art and culture
• heritage, libraries and archives
• sport
• social inclusion
• emergency management
• administration and corporate services.

To view current vacancies, go to the Northern Territory (NT) Government jobs website.

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Our locations

We are located in:

• Darwin
• Alice Springs
• Katherine
• Tennant Creek
• Nhulunbuy
• remote communities across the NT.

Find out more about living in the NT on the Territory website.

Why work for us

The NT Government offers generous benefits including:

• 6 weeks' annual leave
• 3 weeks' personal leave
• 10.5% superannuation (progressively increasing to 12% from July 2025)

Learn more about employment conditions on the Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment.

Other benefits include:

• flexible working arrangements
• good job security
• employee housing in some locations
• opportunities to upskill through professional development and recognised training programs
• excellent career pathways and prospects for promotion
• free and confidential counselling services
• extra financial incentives for child protection staff.

Get the remuneration information sheet PDF (116.7 KB) on the Child Protection NT website.

Early careers

We offer a number of early careers programs which are suitable for:

• job seekers
• high school students
• school leavers
• university students
• graduates
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

For more information, go to the Early Careers website.