Manager Statistical Analysis

Manager Statistical Analysis

Location - This role is based in Parramatta and offers hybrid working arrangements in line with departmental policy, with approximately 50% of workdays expected to be onsite.

Employment type – Ongoing full-time role

Salary - $149,739.00 pa - $173,174.00 pa, plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

This role provides you with an exciting opportunity to use your experience and skills to develop evidence and drive its use in improving outcomes for vulnerable children, families and communities across a range of areas including child protection, out-of-home care, social housing, homelessness and domestic and family violence. You will work closely with policy, program and operations to understand their needs and develop analytical solutions to support their work.

What you’ll do

The Manager, Statistical Analysis leads a small team responsible for informing DCJ-wide business planning, policy development and service reform by undertaking a wide variety of complex quantitative analyses such as:

• Building models to better understand future service demand and supply issues.
• Producing short- and long-term projections of the demand population for various services.
• Analysing the impact of programs and reform initiatives on client outcomes
• Analysing non-administrative datasets such as ABS Census or other survey data
• Analysing administrative datasets including datasets linked with services provided by other government departments to better understand what impacts on client outcomes
• Undertaking predictive analytics
• Providing support with survey design, sampling and analysis
• Providing advice and review of quantitative methodology

This role is in the Family and Community Services Insights, Analysis and Research (FACSIAR) Directorate which is a centre of excellence in human services analysis and research within DCJ. FACSIAR conducts and supports analysis, research and evaluation across DCJ and works with other government and non-government agencies and research organisations on specific projects, data linkage and research and evaluation activities.

What we’re looking for

Essential requirement:

Tertiary qualifications in statistics, econometrics, or a related discipline with a strong statistical component with demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.

In addition to the essential requirement listed in the role description, the successful candidate will have:

• Knowledge and experience in statistics, econometrics, mathematics or a related discipline
• Experience in leading and managing high quality quantitative analysis and modelling to drive critical business decision making
• High level project managements skills with a demonstrated ability to manage conflicting commitments and priorities, use clear judgement under pressure and deliver on outcomes within budget and resource allocation
• High level communication skills with the demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across a range of stakeholders including other DCJ Divisions, State and Commonwealth agencies, academics/researchers and other organisations
• Experience in managing, mentoring and developing people
• Knowledge and experience in programming languages such as SPSS or R

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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 Thursday, 16 October 2025 at 11:59 pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Merran Butler on 0491 225 032 or at merran.butler@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 (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Anjy Fayad on 02 9765 3042 or via anjy.fayad@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.

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