Manager, Transitional Centre

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Location – Parramatta Transitional Centre

Employment type – Ongoing

Salary – $129,464 - $142,666 pa plus superannuation and leave loading

Your role

Parramatta Transitional Centre houses female inmates working towards their integration into the community. As a Manager at Parramatta Transitional Centre, your role is to lead and manage operations and administration within a Transitional Centre to support effective rehabilitation, reduce re-offending, and enhance community safety. Provide leadership and staff development while fostering a collaborative, ethical, and high-performing workplace to deliver quality outcomes and meet organisational goals.

Key Responsibilites

• Oversee planning, delivery, and continuous improvement of support services that enable residents to successfully reintegrate into the community
• Provide strong leadership and coaching to staff, fostering professional growth, teamwork, ethical behaviour, and a high-performance culture
• Ensure services are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard, while meeting organisational and community safety objectives
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver integrated reintegration support
• Manage business and administrative requirements for a diverse offender base, ensuring consistent service delivery and operational efficiency.
  
  

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Essential Requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in a human services related field (or equivalent experience in frontline human service delivery).
• Working with Children Check
• Demonstrated computer proficiency
• Demonstrated conflict management, negotiation, people and resource management skills
• This is an identified role and is only open to women. Where a role is identified, an applicant's sex is a genuine occupational qualification and authorised by Section 31 2 (h) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977
  
  

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
  
  

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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?

Simply click 'apply' to complete the application form and attach a Resume (maximum 3 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements and capabilities of this role as specified in the role description.

Applications close 07 September 2025 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 Andrew Godfrey via email: Andrew.Godfrey@correctiveservices.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 Erica Tam on 0428 944 731 or via erica.tam@correctiveservices.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.

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