Associate Director

**Associate Director - Industrial Relations Coordination**
- **Employment Type**: Ongoing - Part -Time, 21 hours per week
- **Classification / Grade / Band**: Clerk Grade 11/12
- **Remuneration**: $149,739.00 - $173,174.00 plus, Superannuation and Leave Loading
- **Location**: Sydney CBD, Flexible working options available
- **Applications Close**: 15 August 2025 at 9:59am

**Role impact & contribution**

As NSW Treasury’s primary agency relationship manager, the **Policy and Budget group** collaborates with government agencies and the community to provide trusted, independent advice on financial management, policy reform, and resource allocation. It also delivers agency and portfolio advice, strategic reform, and the state Budget, supporting evidence-driven decisions, public sector performance, and strong public finances.

The **Industrial Relations (IR) Coordination team** within the group coordinates advice on the fiscal and economic impacts of the Government’s IR agenda and conducts financial modelling to estimate the impacts of changes to wages and conditions, working closely with stakeholders across Treasury and the NSW Government.

The team also provides analysis and advice on broader workforce, IR and policy reforms.

The **Associate Director** leads a small team to deliver high-quality analysis and advice to support government decision-making and reform development, collaborates with Treasury stakeholders, and builds internal capability across Treasury.

Proactively building robust relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders is paramount, as is your contribution to improving the delivery of outcomes across the NSW Government through effective communication, collaboration, and advocacy with Treasury teams and agency counterparts.

You will be joining our **Policy and Budget Group** and will be working within the **Strategy, Delivery and Reviews** Division. Read more about your future Group and Division.

**Interested in working with us**

**What you can bring to the role**

In this integral role there are a few things we would like for you to have to best support yourself and add value to the people of NSW.
- Experience in managing teams and developing a positive working culture.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, and sound understanding of the public sector environment.
- Demonstrated experience in succeeding in high pressure and dynamic environment with compressed deadlines.
- Ability to analyse and synthesise diverse information and provide high quality advice to support government decision-making.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical and complex information and analysis in different ways (verbal, written and visual) appropriate to the audience.
- Successful track record leading program and policy design, delivery and reform.
- Commitment to continuous improvement including of established processes.
- Experience working in industrial relations and/or understanding of financial management in the NSW public sector would be highly regarded.

**Investing in you**

The team you will join is made up of a diverse and welcoming group of people. We understand what starting a new job is like, and to ensure you have the most positive experience we will ‘Buddy’ you up with a team member to help settle you in.

Just some of the **benefits** of working with Treasury include:

- Flexible work at our Sydney office with 35-hour standard weeks.
- Accrual of flex time for extra hours worked, promoting work-life balance.
- Ongoing learning opportunities through expert-led sessions and online training.
- Wellbeing programs to support your mental and physical health.
- Various leave options, including paid parental and carers leave.

Read more about our benefits and how we invest in you.

**Enrich your career with the NSW Treasury**

You will have an invaluable opportunity to create a positive impact for the people of New South Wales. You will be challenged to provide the best outcomes possible in this role while developing and growing your own skills.

When you join Treasury, you join an organisation that is a whole-of-government financial and economic advisor. Treasury is a critical component of the government and provides advice that informs a wide range of financial, economic and policy driven work for the state of NSW.

As you contribute your expertise, you’ll engage in continuous **Professional Development**, acquiring essential skills such as:

- leading strategic advice and preparing high quality analysis of workforce and wages issues, including the fiscal and economic impacts of bargaining proposals
- coordinating the production of fiscal and economic evidence for legal proceedings
- utilising purpose-built models where appropriate to model the costs of proposals
- developing frameworks for the assessment and measurement of IR proposals
- dealing with complexity, uncertainty and, at times, incomplete or imperfect infor