Community Liaison Officer

The NSW Department of Education provides, funds and regulates education services for NSW students from early childhood to secondary school, delivering world-class education through its public schools and providing funding support to non-government schools. We employ, develop and support teachers, leaders and other staff to deliver the best outcomes for students and to advance the wellbeing of Aboriginal people.

About the Role

The Community Liaison Officer supports schools in building vibrant, tolerant and harmonious school communities. The Community Liaison Officer works to support school communities in the development of approaches to improve social, emotional, health and educational outcomes for students.

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Talent Pool

A talent pool may be created through this recruitment process. A talent pool is a group of candidates who have undergone an assessment process and have been identified as suitable for this role or similar roles for a period of 18 months. Being part of a talent pool means that you may be considered for ongoing or temporary employment for a range of similar roles. This offers exciting opportunities for you to gain a wide range of experiences to build your public service career.

This is a temporary part time position for 3 days a week (0.6 FTE) Full time equivalent for a period of 12 months with a possibility of extension.

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team ) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion

Additional Information

Canley Heights Public School is a large primary school located south-west of Sydney in a low/medium density residential area in the Fairfield local government area. The school has a population of 568 students, including 40 preschool children, and 28 attending special education classes supporting students with Autism and Intellectually Moderate (IO) disabilities.

The school community is culturally and linguistically diverse with just under 92% of our students coming from language backgrounds other than English. The predominant community languages are Vietnamese (49%), Khmer (9%), Arabic (6%), Samoan (3%) and Chinese (4%). A number of students identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (3.55%). Some of our families identified as being refugees. Our students are supported by significant EAL/D and Community Language programs as well as targeted literacy and numeracy initiatives.

The school's staffing in 2025 is made up of 50 teaching staff and 23 non-teaching staff. The socio–economic backgrounds of our families results in the school receiving substantial equity funding which is used to address our students' educational needs. Significant funding is used to employ additional human resources. These resources are in the form of our School Learning Support Officers (SLSOs), Community Liaison Officer (CLO), additional instructional leadership time for APs, and additional English as additional language or dialect (EALD) educators. The school is striving for a collective efficacy of high expectations and these additional staff resources assist the school to maintain positive and open channels of communication between staff, students, parents and community members.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please submit in either Word or PDF format:

1. A cover letter (max 2 pages)

2. demonstrating how your skills, knowledge and professional experience meet the focus capabilities as outlined in the role description

3. A target question response (maximum 300 words per target question)

4. answering the two targeted questions below

5. A current resume (max 5 pages)

6. including name, phone number/s and email for two professional referees

7. Copies of your qualifications and/or academic transcripts

Note: it is a requirement that all candidates submit their applications online via No paper based, email based or late applications will be accepted.

Targeted Question 1

Describe a situation where you were able to effectively support a parent or family with an issue and how your communication skills and interpersonal skills were able to lead to a successful outcome for the parent or family and the school? (300 words maximum)

Targeted Question 2

How do you plan and deliver tasks to meet deadlines? Please give an example of a recent project that you were part of and its impact. (300 words maximum)