Business Manager

Business Manager

Location – Parramatta

Employment type – Temporary – up until September 2028

Salary – GR 9/10 $129,464 - $ 142,665

Your role

The role of the Administrative Support Services team is to provide essential administrative support to the Housing Portfolio, Portfolio Asset Management teams, encompassing business support, resource allocation, fleet management, and coordinating establishment changes for seamless business continuity and accurate reporting.

The purpose of this role is to manage administrative staff, ensuring that administrative services are delivered and standardised across three teams.  The role is also the contact point for recruitment, purchase order management and other administrative services.

What you'll do

As the Business Manager, you will oversee and streamline administrative processes, staff, and resources across Housing Portfolio, Portfolio Asset Management to ensure professionalism, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and implementing essential administrative procedures, and overseeing supports spanning human resources, finance, fleet, travel, and accommodation, promoting best practice and compliance.
• Addressing issues promptly and providing timely, high-level advice to managers and staff, ensuring alignment with relevant policies, operating practices, and legislation.
• Managing direct reports; you'll allocate work, appraise performance, and support ongoing professional development.
• Overseeing compliance with corporate administrative policies and procedures across Housing Portfolio, Portfolio Asset Management, as well as managing responses effectively and promptly to enquiries from various stakeholders .

If you're passionate about providing world class administrative support within the NSW social housing sector, this role offers a rewarding opportunity to do so.

What we're looking for

• Experience in developing and implementing complex office systems as well as experience in influencing changed organisational behaviour together with change management.

• Experience in financial planning, management, and reporting.

• Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline and/or equivalent knowledge, skills, and demonstrated experience.

Download the role description.

To apply directly via the DCJ Careers site click here. Search for the job and click the 'Apply now' button.

We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• a challenging and rewarding career

• a 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.

Apply now and join Australia's top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role, including addressing the two targeted questions below:

1. Can you demonstrate your suitability for the Business Manager role by outlining your two strongest qualities and providing examples of when you used them to positive effect in achieving an outcome?

2. Describe a situation where you analysed existing administrative workflows, identified areas for improvement, and implemented solutions that enhanced operational efficiency and reduced costs.

Applications close Tuesday, 25 November 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Gina Barham on or at

If you've got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternative method to submit the application), please call Katie Hardy on or via

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.

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