Policy & Projects Officer

Policy & Projects Officer

Location - Parramatta – flexible working locations within NSW

Employment type – Temporary full-time role for up to 3 years

Salary - $110,266.00 pa - $122,058.00 pa, plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

As a Policy and Projects Officer, you’ll coordinate and contribute to the development and delivery of a range of projects. This role provides analysis and advice to support our agency’s and the NSW Government’s policy initiatives and commitments to the primary prevention of domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV). You’ll be able to work with some of our key stakeholders, with other NSW government partners, peak bodies, non-government service providers and advocacy groups, to implement a range of initiatives that benefit our communities.

What you’ll do

As part of a small team, this role provides core project management support, including preparing and developing project documentation and our monitoring and evaluation of project progress., It has some of its own responsibilities too, undertaking research and analysis, communicating with our key project partners and preparing high level briefs, reports and information for key stakeholders, including Ministerial offices.

The DFSV Primary Prevention team is responsible for coordinating across government, jurisdictions and sectors to drive the implementation of the recently released Pathways to Prevention: NSW Strategy for the Prevention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence 2024-2028. This Strategy represents a major investment by Government to centrally coordinate a program of whole of population-level work to address the gendered drivers of violence that consistently predict its occurrence against women. Initiatives will expand place-based programs of work across high-impact settings where we live, work, play and learn.

Each day sees a variety of tasks, from writing to researching, to procurement compliance to project coordination, all in support of delivering our Strategy’s program of work.

It's a newly established small team, and we seek a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, skills and perspectives to contribute to a wide-ranging program of work.

What we’re looking for

Our ideal candidate will best succeed with this experience:

• You have previously coordinated a range of policy and project development activities and evaluated or measured impact.
• You’re skilled in managing competing demands and priorities.
• You can demonstrate experience of assimilating information quickly and understanding the implications of changes to policy direction and project priorities.
• You have experience collaborating and coordinating across organisations.
• You have an understanding and interest in domestic, family and sexual violence policy issues, although you don’t need to be a subject matter expert.

Download the role description.

Our team is based mostly in Sydney, but we hire the right skills from anywhere in NSW for people who want to work for NSW. Please talk to us about where you might be able to do this work.

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, and:

1. Attach a cover letter that outlines how you meet the Key Accountabilities listed in the role description (maximum 2 pages)
2. Attach as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages)
3. Answer the two targeted questions (word limit of 250 words for each).

You must complete all three steps for your application to progress.

Targeted Question 1

Have you ever worked on a program or project when everything that could have gone wrong does – all at once? What did you do next to get the project back on track? What was the ultimate outcome, and your role in that?

Targeted Question 2

Have you ever delivered a piece of work that was successful before, only to realise that the assumptions you made about this latest group of stakeholders’ needs were all wrong? What did you do next? What was the outcome?

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Applications close Monday 5 May 2025at 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 Siobhan Brahe on 0437 555 460 or at siobhan.brahe@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 way of submitting your 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.

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.

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