Aboriginal Project Officer

Division: Northern CPPYJ
- Location: Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150
- Req ID: 75317

**Aboriginal Project Officer -**

**Custodial Support Team,**

**Youth Justice**
- **Ongoing, Full time**:

- **Location: Airds - Reiby YJC (Hybrid including flexible work locations considered)**:

- **Clerk Grade 7/8 Salary ($110,266 - $122,058 pa), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**_ This position is open to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people only_**

**Your role**

The Project Officer performs project management and support activities to contribute to the development and delivery of a range of projects in line with established objectives.

This role is committed to improving outcomes for the benefit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

**What you’ll do**
- Develop and maintain relationships with the Aboriginal community and key stakeholders to successfully deliver projects that support custodial objectives.
- 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.
- 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.
- Undertake research and analysis, identifying trends while compiling data and information to preparing project briefs, to support informed decision-making and planning and track and report on project progress against established milestones and deliverables.

**What we’re looking for**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in project management or equivalent experience
- A current NSW drivers’ licence and/or capacity to travel
- Travel will be required to Youth Justice locations across NSW
- NSW Working with Children Check clearance for paid employment
- As an Identified role, this role is open only to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons, Australia’s First Nations people.

Where a position is identified, an applicant’s race is a genuine occupational qualification under the exception in Section 14(d) of the _Anti-Discrimination Act 1977_.

There are two alternatives to confirming your Aboriginality, one of which must be uploaded to be considered for the role as follows. **Either will be accepted**:
Confirmation of Aboriginality form

or

Written confirmation from 2-3 Aboriginal organisations within the community in which you live/work, which addresses the three criteria listed below:

- is of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, and
- identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, and
- is accepted as a such by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.
- 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:

- Please give a recent example of when you worked with multiple stakeholders to achieve an outcome, in the face of time pressure, competing priorities and/or different stakeholder views.
- Describe a situation where you have managed and led a project and ensured project outcomes were met, on time, on budget and to quality standards? What was your role and how have you ensured you achieved the desired outcome?

**Applications close**Sunday 6 July 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

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