AddressCompany description:
Department of Communities and Justice
Job description:
Project Officer
Offender Transformation
Location - Hurstville
Employment type:Temporary (to 30/6/2025) full-time (35 hours per week)
Salary:$106,025 - $117,363 plus super and leave loading (Clerk Grade 7/8)
Your role
As a Project Officer with the Offender transformation team, you will be responsible for project management and support activities to contribute to the development and delivery of a range of project in line with the objectives of the intensive rehabilitation unit.
The Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Offender Transformation project team is responsible for the development and implementation of innovative projects aimed at providing front line staff with additional resources to improve offender engagement in therapeutic services and programs.
What you'll do
As part of the Offender Transformation unit, you will provide an array of project management and support services while navigating tight deadlines, scarce resources, and the challenge of balancing competing priorities. You will also undertake research and analysis, identify trends, and prepare project briefs to support informed decision making and planning.
What we're looking for
Ability to Provide a range of project management and support services, including preparation of reports and briefs, coordinating resources, maintaining project documentation, and implementing and monitoring project plans, to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope, in line with established agency project management methodology.
Prepare and maintain project documentation for reporting, monitoring and evaluation purposes to ensure accessibility of quality information and contribute to the achievement of project outcomes.
Communicate with key stakeholders and coordinate working groups, committees, and consultations to facilitate exchange of information and support project completion in line with project plans.
Source, collate and compile data and information to identify emerging issues and track and report on project progress against established milestones and deliverables.
Essential requirements
Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline and/or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience with demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development.
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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 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 28 June 2024 at 11:00pm AEST.
Got a question?
For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager.
Dayna McCullagh on 0451 705 *** 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,
Faith Timothy on 0497 142 *** or via *************@dcj.nsw.gov.au
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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.
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Other Information
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