Director Community Services - Northern NSW

Director Community Services

• Northern NSW district – hybrid and flexible arrangements available
• Ongoing role
• $231,159 - $255,262 total remuneration payable

Your role

An exciting opportunity to lead DCJ’s child protection functions (including statutory child protection, out of home care and early intervention), ensuring the provision of quality and timely support services for vulnerable children and young people and their families.

What you’ll do

You will be responsible for leading and managing the district’s statutory child protection functions. You will also:

• Drive a suite of change management, risk management and operational performance activities to ensure the district remains responsive to the changing needs of vulnerable children and young people and their families
• Build productive working relationships with government and non-government organisations and communities to facilitate seamless service delivery across the district
• Deliver high level strategic advice to executive teams, including by forecasting and planning local demand for services, benchmarking and reporting on performance, and coordinating risk mitigation measures across the district
• Direct and manage the district’s child protection operations, including statutory child protection, out of home care and early intervention
• Manage team management, work planning, coaching and professional development activities for your team
• Lead a dynamic team to deliver tailored services that make a real difference to the lives of children, young people, and families
• Oversee the portfolio’s risk management, governance and accountability functions to ensure service delivery in line with department policies, frameworks, and guidelines

What we’re looking for

• Passion and interest in promoting better outcomes for children, young people, and families at a local community level
• Proven history of achieving service delivery outcomes and savings targets in a dynamic service delivery environment
• The ability to take a creative and responsive approach to service delivery
• Strong judgement and decision making skills, with the ability to make sound judgement calls about individual cases in a highly sensitive service area.

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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 – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

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.

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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, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

Applications close Monday 6 May 2024 at 11:59pm (AEST)

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Nicola Jeffers at nicola.jeffers@dcj.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best, please contact Lois Jebin at lois.jebin@dcj.nsw.gov.au

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 Your recruitment journey on the DCJ website.

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