Registrar/Relieving Registrar - Cooma

• Queanbeyan with regular travel to Cooma and across the Illawarra South Region. 
• Ongoing (35 hrs per week)   
• Clerk Grade 5/6, Base Salary – $97,027 - $107,059 PA, Plus Employers Contribution to Superannuation and Leave Loading

The role is Registrar Cooma. The role will also provide Registrar relief throughout the region in the weeks when Cooma court is not sitting.

Your role

This role will be responsible for a team to deliver high quality and professional services to clients.

The role requires someone who is willing to undertake extensive travel throughout the Illawarra South region and stay overnight if necessary.  The role is based at Queanbeyan, with regular travel to Cooma to support the Court and throughout the region, to provide relief. This role will allow the successful applicant to work across a variety of locations, building skills, capabilities and relationships.

What you’ll do

Leading the team, you will be responsible for:

• Managing, developing and motivating staff in a fast paced and challenging environment
• Work across a variety of locations, building rapport with many different staff members
• Adapt to being in a variety of different places and roles in multiple locations
• Implementing procedures and training to ensure staff are adequately equipped to deliver best practices and standards to clients
• Constantly implementing current processes and procedures that are in line with legislation
• Dealing with staff issues and providing feedback or assistance to staff
• Adapting to work in different jurisdictions
• Supervising the team, this role will promote a positive working environment that values ethical behaviour and good performance whilst meeting statutory and administrative obligations.

What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated experience leading and managing a team in a fast-paced environment
• Strong people management and organisational skills
• Candidates who are driven and process focussed with the ability to adapt to working in different jurisdictions.
• Candidates who have the ability to be hands on with staff to achieve the desired goals in a busy, changing and complex work environment.

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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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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.

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Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

1. In relation to managing and developing people, what performance measures have you put in place and how did you know that you achieved your aims? (300 - 500 words)

2. Describe a recent work situation that required you to perform several tasks, or work on several projects at the same time. What did you do? (300 - 500 words)

Applications close 15 April 2025 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 Angela Wilson via angela.wilson@justice.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 (including an alternate method submission of the application), please contact Paola Pina via paola.pina@dcj.nsw.gov.au.  

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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.

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