Assistant Policy Officer

Division: System Reform
- Location: Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150
- Req ID: 75499

**Assistant Policy Officer**
- **Location - Parramatta**:

- **Employment type - Temporary full-time up to 12 months with a possibility of extension or conversion to ongoing**:

- **Grade - Clerk Grade 5/6**:

- **Salary - $99,398 pa - $110,271 pa plus employers to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**Your role**
- The Assistant Policy Officer plays a key role in supporting the organisation’s policy development and implementation efforts. The position is responsible for preparing policy documents such as discussion papers, briefs, and submissions, and for providing timely, research-based advice to inform decision-making. This role contributes directly to shaping and delivering policy initiatives that align with the organisation’s strategic priorities and commitments.

**What you’ll do**

The Child and Family Strategy branch leads the development of system-level solutions to improve outcomes for children, young people, families, and communities. This work involves close collaboration across DCJ, other government departments (such as Health and Education), and intra/inter-jurisdictional partners to identify client needs, assess system performance, and align with government priorities.

Your day-to-day activities will consistently contribute to better outcomes for the communities we serve.
- Prepare discussion papers, briefs and submissions, to contribute to the development and delivery of policy and project initiatives.
- Prepare and maintain documentation for reporting, monitoring and evaluation purposes.
- Communicate with key stakeholders and coordinate working groups, committee meetings, and stakeholder consultations to support engagement.
- Undertake research and collate information for providing advice within tight timeframes.
- Monitor shared inboxes
- Provide Secretariat support for a range of interjurisdictional meetings.

**What we’re looking for**
- Communicate effectively
- Self-manage
- Deliver results, and
- Be flexible to work with continuously changing priorities.
- 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 a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date resume (maximum 3 pages).

**Applications close**Wednesday, 6 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 LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
- To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

**Other Information**
- A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

**_ The Welcome Experience_**:

- The careers site currently promotes this service on the ‘Discover roles with DCJ in regional NSW’ page.