Department: Illawarra South Department/Agency: Department of Communities and Justice Location: Queanbeyan, NSW, AU, 2620 Req ID: 86633 Relief Registrar / Registrar Cooma and Yass

Location – Based at Queanbeyan, with frequent travel within the Queanbeyan Hub Employment type – Ongoing full-time Salary & Grade – Clerk Grade 5/6 $102,936 to $113,579pa. super leave loading

Your role The role provides complex administrative services to meet statutory obligations and delivers high quality and skilled services to clients. The role supervises staff and provides ‘hands-on’ training and guidance.

When working at Queanbeyan, you will be working as part of a greater team, contributing to shared goals, delivering quality client service and engaging in cross-collaboration. You will remain responsible for some aspects of Cooma and Yass while working remotely from Queanbeyan.

When working at Cooma and Yass your role will be as Registrar in a court registry. You will be required to lead a small team and effectively allocate resources to meet the Department’s requirements. You will need to exercise some statutory functions as the Registrar of that location.

When required to relieve, you will be expected to work across a variety of roles in a court registry and adapt to various jurisdictions. You may be required to perform roles requiring you to supervise a range of small to medium teams.

The role promotes a working environment that values ethical behaviour and good performance to achieve quality service delivery outcomes and organisational objectives.

What you'll do

- Lead and supervise staff in a busy, fast-paced and changing environment.
- Support and train team members, including providing hand-on training, feedback and guidance to promote best practice and high performance.
- Foster a positive, ethical and inclusive workplace culture while ensuring compliance with statutory, administrative and departmental obligations.
- Deliver high-quality, client-focused services that are accurate, timely and responsive to client needs.
- Manage team workloads by identifying priorities, allocating resources and monitoring performance to achieve daily operational goals.
- Ensure team outputs comply with legislation, policies, procedures and service standards.
- Implement, maintain and continuously improve operational processes, procedures and registry work practices to enhance service delivery and efficiency.




- Keep procedures and practices current with legislative and policy requirements.
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues, stakeholders and staff across multiple locations and jurisdictions.
- Adapt to working in different locations, jurisdictions and operational roles as business needs require.
- Build strong working relationships and rapport with a diverse range of staff and stakeholders.
- Apply and uphold departmental policies and practices, including Code of Conduct, WHS, EEO, Bullying and Harassment Prevention, Ethical Work Practices, Disability Awareness, EAPS and ATSI strategies.
- Registrar only: Perform some quasi-judicial and statutory functions.

Essential requirements

- Capacity to work in an environment that may involve potential exposure to psychosocial hazards related to the range of services provided in a court environment. Click here for more Information about accepting a role within Court Services.

- You must hold a valid Australian Drivers Licence.
- You must be willing and available to travel to Cooma and Yass on a regular basis to provide court and registry services as the Registrar. This may include overnight stays. A departmental motor vehicle will be provided when available and the appropriate allowances paid for travel.
- You should also be willing to travel to other locations within the Queanbeyan Hub as required. These locations include Queanbeyan, Cooma, Yass and Goulburn. This travel may be required at short notice, and include overnight stays.

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career

- Flexible, autonomous work setting

- Competitive pay and conditions

- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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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.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply and attach the following documents:

- An up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

- A cover letter (maximum 3 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role and addressing the following targeted questions.
- Describe how you have successfully adapted to new environments, roles or teams, and how you quickly built effective working relationships.

- Give an example of where you have given support and regular feedback to an employee - how did you link it to their development needs.

Applications close 19th October 2026 at 11:59pm.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact Caitlin Howard at [email protected].

If you have any questions about the application process or would like to request a recruitment adjustment (for example submitting your application in a different format), please email the recruiter

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

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.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

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.

For more information visit Applying for DCJ jobs on the DCJ website.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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📌 Relief Registrar / Registrar Cooma and Yass (Queanbeyan)
🏢 Nsw Department Of Communities And Justice
📍 Queanbeyan