Job Description
Senior Policy Officer
Location – Various Hybrid working
Employment type – Fulltime Ongoing or Fulltime Temp (up to 24 months)
Salary –GR 9/10 $ 129,464 - 142,665 plus superannuation
This is a targeted recruitment. While all applicants are welcome, preference will be given to candidates who meet the established standards of the role and are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait islander descent. This is because the Department acknowledges this lived experience contributes a perspective valuable to our work with this community.
Your role
The NSW Government is determined to make NSW a place where everyone has access to safe and secure housing, and where experiences of homelessness are rare, brief and non-recurring.
Homes NSW is a division of the Department of Communities and Justice. It brings together the housing and homelessness functions of the Department of Communities and Justice, the NSW Land and Housing Corporation, Aboriginal Housing Office and key worker housing functions from across government all under one roof.
Homes NSW leads work to deliver more social and affordable housing, end the cycle of homelessness, and deliver quality public housing to our 262,000 tenants across NSW.
You will lead and deliver defined components of policy, strategy and reform initiatives, provide authoritative advice, manage stakeholder relationships and contribute to planning and delivery of complex programs to achieve Homes NSW’s strategic objectives.
What you’ll do
- Lead delivery of defined workstreams within strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and achievement of outcomes.
- Drive project planning activities, including scoping, scheduling, risk management and coordination of deliverables.
- Provide guidance, mentoring and oversight to team members and lower graded staff, including allocating work and supporting delivery of outputs, and contribute to capability development and coordination of work priorities where required.
- Provide authoritative, evidence-based advice and reports to support decision-making on policy, strategy and reform initiatives.
- Build and maintain stakeholder relationships and contribute to influencing outcomes through effective engagement, communication and negotiation.
- Manage project activities, timelines and deliverables to ensure effective delivery within agreed parameters.
What we’re looking for
- Demonstrated experience in policy development, strategic initiatives or project delivery within government or a comparable environment.
- Experience in, or exposure to, complex policy or reform environments, including the ability to analyse information and contribute to evidence-based advice.
- Understanding of, or ability to quickly acquire knowledge of, the housing, homelessness or related human services system, or a comparable policy environment.
- Knowledge of legislation and government processes relevant to Homes NSW or similar public sector environments.
- National Criminal History Record Check in accordance with the Disability Inclusion Act 2014
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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 an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the targeted question below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:
In 500 words or less describe a time when you contributed to or led the development or delivery of a complex policy, strategy or reform initiative involving multiple stakeholders. Explain how you provided strategic advice, managed competing priorities and stakeholder relationships, addressed risks or implementation challenges, and achieved your objectives. Use this response to indicate your area of primary interest: between housing and homelessness; and between strategy/policy development and reform/project leadership.
Applications close Sunday 21 June 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 Mel Siddall at [email protected]
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 Katie Hardy at [email protected]
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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