$133,348 - $146,945 a year

Full time, Casual/Temporary

Hybrid

Location – This role offers hybrid working arrangements with flexible office locations, as the team is across the state.

Employment type – Temporary, Full-Time role for 10 months

Salary – Clerk Grade 9/10, $133,348 - $146,945per annum, plus employer’s contribution to superannuation

Industry leading training with ongoing career development and support

Your role

In this role, you will coordinate and oversee the delivery of a complex statewide program that supports housing service outcomes across NSW. Working closely with more than 30 client service teams and a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, you will provide project leadership, governance oversight, and strategic support to ensure program objectives are achieved.

Operating in a dynamic and high-profile environment, you will analyse complex information, identify risks and emerging issues, provide evidence-based recommendations, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. You will work collaboratively across Homes NSW to support consistent program delivery, manage competing priorities, and contribute to organisational objectives.

This role suits someone who is an experienced project professional, enjoys working across diverse stakeholder groups, and can balance strategic thinking with operational delivery.

What you’ll do

- Manage the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a complex statewide program to support strategic and operational priorities.
- Lead project planning, reporting, governance and risk management activities to ensure delivery of agreed outcomes.
- Prepare high-quality briefings,



reports and recommendations for senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Analyse operational and performance information to identify trends, risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
- Build and maintain productive relationships with client service teams, partner agencies and sector stakeholders across NSW.
- Coordinate responses to emerging issues and support informed decision making through timely and accurate advice.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance program effectiveness, consistency and service outcomes.
- Support governance forums, reporting requirements and project evaluation activities.

What we’re looking for

- Demonstrated experience managing complex projects or programs within a large and diverse organisation.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate across multiple levels.
- Excellent written communication skills with experience preparing reports, briefings and recommendations for senior decision-makers.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, including the ability to interpret complex information and identify practical solutions.
- Experience managing risk, governance and reporting requirements in a rapid-paced environment.
- Ability to manage competing priorities,



navigate ambiguity and achieve outcomes within tight timeframes.
- An understanding of government programs, housing services, community services or related sectors would be highly regarded.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Applications close Thursday, 27 August 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Jacob Allen on 0428 667 ***, or at ***********@homes.nsw.gov.au

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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