Lead Correspondence

**Full-time employment opportunity in a vibrant and supportive team**:

- **Based in Parramatta CBD with flexible work arrangements available**:

- **Remuneration of $129,464 - $142,665 plus super and leave loading**

**About the Department of Education**

At the NSW Department of Education, we educate and inspire lifelong learners - from early childhood, through schooling to vocational education and training.

**About the role**

The Lead, Correspondence role prepares, manages and reviews the provision of high-level communications and correspondence including briefings, reports, and submissions to ensure comprehensiveness, accuracy, and timeliness of written information. The role also provides a range of executive and project support services to facilitate the delivery of business operations and the achievement of organisational objectives, as required.

**About you**

You are an accomplished correspondence strategist with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who:

- Have strong organisational and time-management skills with proven ability to oversee complex correspondence and records management, ensuring strict adherence to deadlines and stakeholder requirements.
- Can do research with critical thinking in order to develop, review, and present high-level complex briefings, papers, and advice that support strategic decision-making.
- Can demonstrate expertise in coordinating sensitive and high-stakes communications, including managing recruitment-related appeals or complaints with professionalism and sound judgement.
- Have strong track record in designing and implementing streamlined administrative processes that enhance operational efficiency and deliver superior outcomes.
- Proven ability to manage a team in a high-volume environment.

For further information please view the **role description**

**Essential requirement**
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the value of public education.

**Key knowledge and experience**
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the Department’s Aboriginal Education Policy and upholding the Department’s Partnership Agreement with the NSW AECG and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people.

**Benefits**

With nearly 100,000 people working all over NSW, the Department of Education isn’t like any other workplace. You can customise your career track and experience benefits including:

- **the opportunity to make a real difference**, doing important work in a varied, rewarding career in which you can make the most of your partnership engagement expertise across a variety of opportunities
- **flexible working conditions**, with a 35-hour week and generous leave entitlements that give you unrivalled work-life balance
- **a dynamic workplace** in an organisation committed to diversity and inclusion
- **opportunities for advancement** beyond the initial job description, with scope to move sideways as well as up and receive the professional support you need to discover new talents and interests.

**How to apply**

If you are interested in joining the team, we want to hear from you

Please attach a resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements and capabilities of this role.

**Closing date**:Sunday, 21st September 2025, 11:59pm**
- A recruitment pool may be created through this recruitment process. A recruitment pool is a group of applicants who have been assessed and identified as suitable for this role, and who may be considered for a range of similar roles, including temporary, term or ongoing roles, over the next 18 months._