Senior Manager - Capital Business Cases

Senior Manager – Capital Business Cases

Location: Parramatta ( options for Hybrid Office & Work from Home)

Employment type: Ongoing Full-Time

Salary: Clerk Grade 11/12 $145,378 to $168,130 pa, plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

Your role as Senior Manager is to lead the development of strategic optioning through to detailed investment documentation for major capital investment. You will lead the team to creatively approach problems and explore value for money interventions that best support DCJ services.

What you’ll do

Your role will focus on the following key responsibilities:

• Lead the development of the strategic justification for investment (or case for change)
• Lead the development of options for non-asset and asset interventions
• Lead the assessment of all options and effectively communicate the outcomes in a compelling way that supports executive decisions
• Lead the development of detailed investment documentation including Business Cases, managing multiple technical inputs
• Collaborate with other DCJ divisions on their service needs, including Disability Policy, Systems Reform, Court Services and frontline service divisions (Housing, Child Protection and Youth Justice).
• Support your team members to develop in collaboration, effective communication, complex problem solving and program management.

About the team

The Capital Business Cases (CBC) team is a vibrant, and enthusiastic team dispersed across NSW. Anchored by DCJ values, CBC embraces working across multiple metropolitan and regional offices through effective hybrid work methods, and prioritises team wellbeing through targeted online and in-person events. We value diversity, inclusivity, and authenticity to empower our team members. 

The key objectives of the Capital Business Cases team are to:

1. Support DCJ Executive and Ministerial decisions on major capital investment by assessing the strategic merit of proposed interventions.
2. Inform decisions by NSW Treasury and the Expenditure Review Committee on major capital investment into DCJ major infrastructure projects by developing robust, evidence-based business cases.
3. Guide the NSW Government on prioritising and optimising DCJ to support service delivery, by articulating a clear case for change and investment roadmaps.
4. Provide advice, analysis, insights, and evidence that support organisational objectives and needs.

What we’re looking for

 As Senior Manager, you are a dynamic, agile team leader who promotes critical thinking and collaborative problem solving to support NSW Government investment decisions. You will ideally hold knowledge and experience of NSW Government processes, in particular governance and investment decision processes (e.g. ERC and Cabinet Submission) and experience in complex strategy and planning work.

Download the role description.

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, 12th May 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 Ainslie Wood, Senior Manager Capital Business Cases on 0429 403 106

 or at ainslie.wood@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 Sarah Nguyen on 02 9765 5046 or via thikimyen.nguyen@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.

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