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Policy and Projects Officer

3 weeks ago


Parramatta, Australia NSW Department of Communities and Justice Full time

Division: Strategy Policy and Commissioning
- Location: Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150
- Req ID: 72221

**Policy & Projects Officer**

**Location: Parramatta**

**Employment type: Temporary full-time role up to 16 January 2026**

**Salary**:$110,266.00pa to $122,058.00 pa, plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**Your role**

**What you’ll do**

As part of the DFV Perpetrators Intervention team you will contribute to the implementation of the NSW Government’s Men’s Behaviour Change Program (MBCP) program of work. This includes the NSW Government MBCP Practice Standards and Compliance Framework, MBCP program funding and sector development initiatives.
- You will also Deliver contract management, monitor and evaluate provider performance and ensure compliance to promote performance and enable service delivery improvements to client outcomes.
- Contribute evidence-based analysis and advice on service delivery gaps, high risk services funding decisions that contribute to service improvements.
- Provide evidence-based advice to support service planning and delivery, including negotiations and consultation with providers, community, service users and other stakeholders, to enable informed decision making and maximising client outcomes.
- Build collaborative key stakeholder relationships through provision of expert advice and assistance in developing the capability and capacity of service providers, organisations and other agencies to respond to sector reforms and initiatives and implement service improvement strategies.
- Undertake research, analysis and interpretation of relevant data to inform planning, purchasing and contracting services and work with funded organisations to adapt existing procedures.
- Contribute to complex documents including submissions, briefing notes and discussion papers in response to Ministerial and agency requests.
- Manage and evaluate projects to ensure alignment with relevant work plans, business strategies and organisational objectives

**What we’re looking for**
- Be a good negotiator with demonstrated experience in relationship management and contract management processes.
- Be innovative and client focused in the delivery of services and how you promote change in the sector. You must have demonstrated high level communication, decision making and project management skills.
- Have demonstrated understanding of the criminal justice system as it relates to domestic violence and/or the domestic violence service system.
- Have demonstrated understanding of domestic violence perpetrator interventions in the human services sector, in particular, Men’s Behaviour Change Programs.
- Have experience with the contract management and delivery of programs and initiatives that support the domestic violence service sector.
- Have project management and related administrative skills to support project delivery and policy development including, sound written communication skills, critical thinking skills and a proven ability to identify and manage risks effectively and maintain appropriate record keeping.

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.

Want more information? Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.

**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, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:
**Targeted Question 1**

Briefly explain what, in your experience, are key elements of contract management for managing human services contracts. (Maximum 300 words)

**Targeted Question 2**

You have identified discrepancies in a contracted service provider’s financial reporting between the 2022-23 financial year and the 2023-24 financial year. What steps do you take to address this issue. (Maximum 300 words)

**Applications close**Sunday, 9 February 2025 at 11:59 pm AEST.

**Got a question?**

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**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 LGB