Manager
Location - Parramatta
Employment type – Temporary full-time role until 30 June 2027
Salary - $149,739.00 pa - $173,174.00 pa, plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
Your role
This new role is responsible for delivering, planning and coordinating complex Sexual Violence policy-related projects within agreed timelines and budgets. It will lead and manage and maintain and build stakeholder relationships to achieve DCJ’s strategic objectives.
What you’ll do
The Sexual Violence team is responsible for coordinating across government, jurisdictions and sectors to drive the implementation of the NSW Sexual Violence plan 2022-2027 and provide policy advice on the prevention, early intervention and response to sexual violence.
Part of a small team, this role effectively manages team resources, budgets, assets, projects and staffing to ensure goals are achieved.
You’ll drive a team culture that is effective, accountable and inclusive. This requires you to effectively plan work, coach performance and support professional development.
You and your team will provide proactive and evidence-based expert advice and reports to the Director and/or the Executive Director to ensure full consideration of relevant matters that impact current business and future decision-making.
You’ll seek out and actively manage key internal and external stakeholder relationships based on open and regular discussions and feedback to ensure an effective interface between program development, planning, service design and policy implementation.
It sits within the Women, Family and Community Safety directorate at DCJ, which has a wide remit to deliver policy and programs related to domestic, family and sexual violence and justice interventions. Some knowledge and experience working in this sensitive area and its stakeholders will help to set you up for success.
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’re used to setting your own priorities and those of any colleagues you supervise.
- You’re self-aware, and know how to manage inclusively, allocate resources, determine the conceptual framework towards projects and develop strategic plans.
- You can form strong stakeholder relationships, particularly as a central policy advice and coordination team, where delivery may take place in other settings or agencies.
- You know how to set up a program of work within government and legislative policies, and how to strike a balance between time, funding and quality in the work delivered.
- You know how to ensure you, and your team’s policy advice is based on sound evidence, using your judgment when under time constraints or in the absence of complete information
- You’re comfortable being a source of expert and high-quality written and verbal advice to internal stakeholders across the Department, as well as externally to Ministerial level.
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’re also happy to discuss part-time and job share arrangements during the recruitment process.
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:
- Attach a cover letter that outlines how you meet the Key Accountabilities listed in the role description (maximum 2 pages).
- Attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).
- 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
Describe a time where you found yourself responsible for delivering a public commitment that looked great in theory, but when developing the workplan, you realised it could be hard or even impossible to deliver in its current form or within time and budget. Tell us what you did next, including who you consulted, briefed and how you managed expectations. What was the outcome?
Targeted question 2
We do a lot of work with diverse communities, which require us to understand their perspectives and experiences of marginalisation. Describe a time when you identified a gap in your cultural knowledge about working with Aboriginal communities and/or culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTIQA+ communities or people with disability. How did you realise you had this gap, how did you upskill yourself, and how do you know your solution was effective? Did you seek any feedback?
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Applications close Friday, 5 September 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 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
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