• Improve your professional employment prospects
• Combine study with a paid work placement in your relevant field
• Be a part of Australia's leading science and research organisation

The Indigenous Cadetship Program is an initiative of the CSIRO Indigenous Engagement Strategy, which seeks to significantly increase Indigenous employment nationally within CSIRO. Through this strategy, CSIRO aims to enhance the educational, employment, training and career development opportunities for people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent.

Indigenous Cadetships may be offered to people of Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent who are enrolled for full-time study in their first undergraduate degree at an Australian University. Upon successful completion of the Cadetship, Cadets will be encouraged to apply for positions in CSIRO relevant to their qualification and skills.

Our cadetships offer a combination of full time study and work placements within CSIRO (usually completed during the long break at the end of each academic year) and provide:

• A study allowance of $300 per week during periods of full-time study (40 weeks)
• Financial assistance of $500 per semester to assist with study costs
• 12 weeks of paid work placement during each year of the cadetship (starting at $590 per week before tax)
• Payment of HECS fees by CSIRO on successful completion of study

An opportunity exists for a trainee to join The Cotton Pest Management Group in the Agriculture and Food Business Unit. The position will be based at The Australian Cotton Research Institute in Narrabri. In this role you will assist researchers to study aspects of the evolution of resistance in key insect pests of the cotton agroecosystem with a view to developing strategies to delay it. This work will include a significant component of molecular biology as a tool to detect resistance. Skills to be developed during the cadetship include laboratory techniques, experimental design, microbiology, evolutionary ecology, and general biology.

Location:            Myall Vale, NSW
Salary:                Study allowance of $300 during periods of full-time study + 12 weeks of paid work placement during each year of the cadetship 
Tenure:               Duration/remainder of full-time study program
Job reference:   52527

Pre-requisites/eligibility

Indigenous Cadetships are open to students who are:

• of Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent; and
• currently enrolled for full-time study in their first undergraduate degree course at an Australian university.

How to apply: For further information and details on how to apply, please see the Position details document.

Interested candidates will be required to provide an academic transcript (or confirmation of enrolment if not yet started), Confirmation of Aboriginal &/or Torres Strait Islander descent as well as a resume.

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Applications close: Monday 18 December 2017