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Employment Fill Type: Permanent (Ongoing)

Location:

Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150

Description:

Who we are

The NSW Early Learning Commission (Commission), established as the independent regulator for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in New South Wales on 1 December 2025, is responsible for regulating more than 6,000 ECEC services across the state.

Our role is to ensure services meet high standards of safety, quality, and compliance through ongoing assessment, monitoring and enforcement.

The Commission places children at the centre of all decision-making, working to ensure they are safe, respected, and supported to thrive in high-quality early learning environments that promote their development, wellbeing, and lifelong learning. It also drives continuous improvement across the sector through evidence-informed regulation and reform to strengthen community confidence in ECEC services.

The Commission respects and values Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia.

- Ongoing Full-Time opportunity
- Located in Parramatta with flexible working arrangements available
- Salary ranges from $102,936 to $113,579 p.a. plus superannuation and annual leave loading

About the Team

The Project Officer role sits within the Risk Team, which leads and tracks the development and implementation of strategic projects and operational initiatives to support effective risk based and best practice regulation of NSW early childhood education and care services with a strong emphasis on risk management and performance optimisation.

About the role

As a Project Officer, you play a hands‑on role working across a variety of projects and initiatives, providing the coordination, research,



analysis and administrative support needed to ensure priorities are progressing and quality outcomes are delivered.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Providing secretariat and governance support, including coordinating meetings, preparing papers, and minutes
- Undertaking research and data analysis to identify operational issues, emerging trends and sector risk, and prepare high-quality reports and correspondence
- Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate activities and respond to enquiries
- Coordinating project activities and deliverables, monitoring progress and supporting implementation to ensure timely effective delivery

Applicants must declare any investigations they have been subject to as an ECEC employee or Responsible Person, and any personal or professional conflicts of interest with current or former NSW Early Learning Commission employees, approved providers or ECEC services.

About you

You are a highly organised and proactive professional, who can confidently balance competing demands, has a keen eye for detail and takes pride in producing accurate, high-quality work.

You bring:

- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- A resourceful, solution-focused mindset and willingness to take initiative
- Confidence using Microsoft Office suites and working with data, reports and documentation

- Effective organisation and time management skills, with the ability to keep priorities on track and meet deadlines




- The ability to work independently while contributing positively to a team-oriented team culture.

Essential requirements of the role

- Current and valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) Clearance for paid employment.
- Demonstrated understanding of and committed to the value of early childhood education and care.

Benefits

- Flexible working arrangements
- 35 hour working week
- Competitive pay, salary sacrificing, employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
- Flex Leave entitlements, generous holidays & leave conditions
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.
- Opportunities for advancement and mobility across the Early Learning Commission to support your career growth

Closing date Monday 5 October 2026 at 11:59pm.

For role enquiries please contact Sarah Sherborne-Higginsat and for recruitment process enquiries please contact Jenny Nguyen at

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education's Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage .

A recruitment pool may be created through this process for ongoing and temporary opportunities in the same or similar roles. The pool will consist of applicants assessed as suitable, who may be considered for temporary, term or ongoing positions over the next 18 months.

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📌 Project Officer (Parramatta)
🏢 NSW Department of Education
📍 Parramatta