Senior Project Officer

Senior Project Officer - Design and Asset Management

• Location Parramatta CBD with access to hybrid work arrangements
• Full time ongoing opportunity (35 hours per week)
• Salary from $129,464 to $142,665 pa. + super and annual leave loading
• Diverse and inclusive organisation with generous leave entitlements including flex leave and access to Fitness Passport

Your role

Lead the Aboriginal Housing Office (AHO)'s new supply program by managing all pre-construction activities for multi-unit housing developments. You will be responsible for ensuring projects are delivered on time, meet design and compliance standards, and align with program targets. You will oversee asset planning, including Strategic Asset Management Plans (SAMPs), Asset Management Plans (AMPs), and reporting to support funding bids and long-term housing delivery

What you'll do

• Coordinate architectural procurement and design consultant contracts for new supply projects.
• Oversee design development from concept to detailed design, embedding cultural appropriateness, sustainability, and compliance.
• Drive planning approvals, liaising with councils and authorities to achieve timely outcomes.
• Provide quality assurance and technical oversight to ensure smooth transition to construction.
• Lead asset planning and reporting, including SAMPs/AMPs and compliance with INSW and NSW Treasury frameworks.
• Maintain and report on the shovel-ready project pipeline.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships with internal teams, Aboriginal Community Housing Providers, consultants, and government agencies.

What we're looking for

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline such as asset management, property, or project management or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of statutory planning frameworks and housing design standards.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including working with Aboriginal communities and statutory authorities.
• Skilled in interpreting housing demand data and translating this into design briefs and project prioritisation decisions
• Confident in managing consultant performance, design risks, and pre-construction compliance frameworks under tight program deadlines.
• Proven ability to operate with high autonomy in delivering design packages to approval stage and managing asset planning submissions.
• Qualifications in Architecture, Design, Town Planning, Property or Asset Management are highly regarded.

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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
• 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) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

• Describe your experience in developing and managing procurement packages for design consultants and architects, including how you have collated and integrated site investigation reports to ensure a robust procurement process. Provide a specific example of how you managed risks or approvals to deliver a project to a shovel-ready status.
• This role requires designs that are not only compliant with statutory frameworks but also culturally appropriate for Aboriginal communities. Can you outline an example where you worked with Aboriginal stakeholders or community housing providers to shape a project's design outcomes? How did you balance cultural integrity with regulatory and program requirements?

Applications close Tuesday 21st October 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 Martina Boktor

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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 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.

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