AddressCompany description:
Department of Communities and Justice
Job description:
Project Officer, Capital Planning and Investment
Location - Parramatta, Hybrid
Employment type - Ongoing, Full-time
Salary - $106,025 - $117, 363 + superannuation
Your role
The Project Officer in Capital Planning and Investment (CP&I) offers crucial administrative assistance and executive support to enhance business operations through a variety of project management activities. This position entails overseeing project management and support services, handling multiple priorities effectively, and ensuring consistently exceptional levels of support to the Director.
What you'll do
- Evaluate and prioritise requests to optimise the Director's schedule, ensuring timely processing of allocations and matters requiring approval.
- Organise and oversee the calendar, meetings, and correspondence.
- Create correspondence, agendas, minutes, presentations, and briefing notes to meet business requirements.
- Research and compile background information to aid decision-making and planning, while maintaining and updating administrative practices for improved efficiency.
- Offer various project management and administrative services, including report preparation, resource coordination, and project documentation maintenance, ensuring alignment with agency methodologies and policies.
- Develop and maintain project documentation for reporting and evaluation, ensuring accessibility of quality information.
- Liaise with key stakeholders, coordinate working groups and consultations, facilitating information exchange and supporting project completion according to plans.
What we're looking for
Previous experience in similar role having delivered a range of project management and support to senior stakeholders.
Appointments are subject to reference checks. Some roles may also require the following checks/ clearances:
- National Criminal History Record Check in accordance with the Disability Inclusion Act 2014
- Working with Children Check clearance in accordance with the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012
Download the role description.
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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.
Want more information? Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.
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 2 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:
- Targeted Question 1
How would you best approach competing deadlines and urgent deliverables?
- Targeted Question 2
What is your approach to addressing difficult stakeholders and difficult stakeholder queries coupled with tight response times?
Applications close Sunday, 9th June 2024 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 Magdalena Chidiac on 0409 595 *** or at ***************@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 Reyzhel Velasco via ***************@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.
Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.
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