Assistant Manager

Division: Northern CPPYJ
- Location: Surry Hills, NSW, AU, 2010
- Req ID: 76327

**Assistant Manager -**

**Sydney Youth Justice Community Office,**

**Youth Justice**
- **Temporary Full time up to 12 months**:

- **Location: Surry Hills**:

- **Clerk Grade 8/9 Salary ($121,845 - $133,105 pa), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

This is a targeted recruitment.

This is because the Department acknowledges this lived experience contributes a perspective valuable to our work with this community.

**Your role**

As an Assistant Manager for Sydney Youth Justice Community Office, you will manage a multidisciplinary team providing service/program delivery that aims to the reduce re-offending of juvenile offenders and enhance their functioning and/or reintegration into the community and increase community safety.

**What you’ll do**
- Manage a team in service delivery and programs ensuring efficient allocation of resources and ongoing performance management and development of staff and identify opportunities to improve staff skills and capabilities that contribute to effective service delivery.
- Supervise staff in delivering intervention and facilitating youth justice conferences, including day-to-day discussions, formal supervision, case plan reviews and report approval to ensure good quality intervention, duty of care and support the organisation’s primary goal of reducing recidivism among young people who offend.
- Undertake Risk Assessment and Management to identify risk posed to the community by clients and how this can be minimised through intervention, supervision and risk management strategies and ensure the safety (physical and psychological wellbeing) of staff in the field and in the office.
- Ensure accurate record-keeping and data integrity of the CIMS system, to support effective planning, decision making and Quality Assurance process, contributing to the accountability and continuous improvement of the Unit.
- Work collaboratively, coordinate and communicate with staff, Area Manager and a range of government and non-government stakeholders on service delivery and best practice standards.
- Implement changes ensuring that decisions made at a management level are communicated clearly and with transparency to staff, to ensure staff are fully briefed on current actions and activities in the unit, create clear expectations, and encourage trust in leadership in accordance with Departmental policies, procedures, standards and best practice guidelines.

**What we’re looking for**
- Recognised tertiary qualifications (diploma or higher) in social work, welfare, psychology, criminology, education or related field or relevant experience.
- A current Driver’s Licence
- Current NSW Working with Children Check clearance
- National Criminal History Record Check in accordance with the Disability Inclusion Act 2014

Download the role description.

**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.

**Are you ready to join us?**

Click apply. You will need to attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum five pages) and a cover letter (maximum three pages) with a brief outline on how you meet the focus capabilities & requirements of the role and answer the two targeted questions below:

- The role focuses on ongoing performance management, support and development of staff. Please tell us what experience you have in supporting a team and what personal leadership skills and strategies you will bring to the role that will ensure ongoing professional development of staff and strong leadership.
- Can you provide an example of a time when you successfully managed a multidisciplinary team in a high-pressure environment? How did you ensure efficient allocation of resources, foster staff development, and improve team performance to achieve program delivery goals?

**Applications close**Sunday 3 August 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

**Got a question?**

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 LG