Job Description
Further your technical skills within the Public Sector
Be part of an agile team with flexible working arrangements on offer
Grade: Clerk Grade 9/10
Job Status: Temporary full-time (up to 30/09/2027)
Salary: $129,464 – $142,665pa plus superannuation and annual leave loading
About the role
The Lead, Digital Production manages production, monitors and maintains the NSW Electoral Commission’s websites and intranet to help deliver an engaging, accurate user-centred digital presence, and contributes to ongoing digital innovation in line with our communications and digital strategies.
About the NSW Electoral Commission
The New South Wales Electoral Commission delivers trusted and independent systems, processes, oversight and engagement that support democracy in New South Wales. Our vision is to maintain confidence in the integrity of the democratic process and make it easy for people to understand and participate.
Our work includes:
- Running and regulating elections
- Communicating and engaging with current and future voters, key NSW community stakeholders and NSW election participants; and
- Investigating possible offences and enforcing electoral and lobbying laws such as the Electoral Act 2017 and the Electoral Funding Act 2018.
What we offer
- Opportunity to work on large scale events and assist your local community
- Career development opportunities through study and face to face training
- Access to self-paced expert-led training via LinkedIn Learning
- Employee Assistance Program for wellbeing support
- Staff social events to connect with colleagues
- Access to Fitness Passport for eligible staff
- Free annual flu vaccination
- Convenient CBD location, easy access to public transport.
Key knowledge & experience
As the successful candidate, you will have:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or equivalent professional and technical experience.
- Experience working in a digital production lead capacity within a services-based environment, including successfully delivering projects using Agile methodology.
- Experience working across a range of content management systems and web-based applications.
- Experience in government or highly regulated environments (desirable).
- Experience managing vendor relationships.
- Experience contributing to digital transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated leadership in accessibility compliance.
- Experience managing competing stakeholder and business needs with proven collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of, and fluency in, web analytical tools, accessibility and digital marketing applications.
- Ability to develop clear, accurate and customer focused content, with strong writing and editing skills.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
Essential requirements
- Political neutrality with no affiliation to political parties or lobbyists/third party campaigners
- Successful police check result
How to apply
As part of your application, you will be asked to respond to the two targeted questions:
- Describe a situation where you had to prioritise competing digital delivery requests while maintaining governance, quality and compliance standards. What framework did you use to determine priorities and what was the outcome? (Maximum 300 words)
- Describe a time you identified a significant digital platform risk (e.g., accessibility, security, compliance, performance or reputational risk). How did you assess the impact, communicate the issue and lead stakeholders toward resolution? (Maximum 300 words)
You should include a covering letter summarising your skills, knowledge and work experience, along with an up-to-date resume which clearly detail your skills and experience as relevant to this role.
For further information regarding the role please download the Role Description
Applications Close: Wednesday 03/06/2026 (11:59pm)
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The NSW Electoral Commission embraces diversity and inclusion and is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the population of New South Wales. We welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds and encourage women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, people with disability, mature-age people, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this role. Please let us know if we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to assist you, please contact [email protected]
If you have specific questions regarding the role, please contact the hiring manager Billy O’Neill, Manager, Digital Products [email protected]
Applications received and completed after closing time will not be considered for selection.
The selection process will include a range of assessment techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role.
Other Information
Your employment will be subject to National Criminal Records Check to determine your suitability for employment.
The NSW Electoral Commission is committed to maintaining public confidence in the integrity of the electoral system. The Commission requires all its employees to refrain from membership of any political party and from engaging in political activity which could be seen as reflecting adversely on the strict political neutrality of the Commission. To maintain political neutrality, applicants for roles with the Commission who are, who have been or who may be perceived to be or have been connected with political activities may also be ineligible for appointment and should disclose such information as part of their application. This does not include voting in a Commonwealth, State or Local Government election, which is compulsory in NSW. The Commission’s Political Neutrality Policy may be viewed on its website.
A talent pool may be created from this recruitment action for ongoing and temporary roles of the same work classification that may become available for filling over the next 18 months.
This role is based in at our Elizabeth Street, Sydney office with a hybrid work arrangement.
Applications Close: Wednesday 03/06/2026 (11:59pm)