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Division: Homes NSW

Location: Newcastle, NSW, AU, 2300

Req ID: 69084

Project Officer - Administrative Support Services

Location: Newcastle NSW 2302
Employment type: Ongoing, Full-time (1 vacancy)
Salary: Clerk Grade 7/8, $106,025 to $117,363 p.a. plus employers’ contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

The NSW Government is determined to make NSW a place where everyone has access to safe and secure housing, and where experiences of homelessness are rare, brief, and non-recurring.

Homes NSW is a division of the Department of Communities and Justice. It brings together the housing and homelessness functions of the Department of Communities and Justice, the NSW Land and Housing Corporation, Aboriginal Housing Office, and key worker housing functions from across government all under one roof.

We have an opening for a Project Support Officer to join our Housing Portfolio Assets Management team. This position involves providing a range of administrative and support services, including human resource functions and financial, and offering project support across various teams.

The main objective of this role is to offer high-quality executive, project, and administrative support to ensure the efficient and effective operation of the Unit.

What you’ll do

• Assist the Business Manager with human resources, financial, and executive administration tasks, including team management.
• Provide executive and secretarial support, including coordinating appointments, meetings, travel, conferences, and seminars. Exercise discretion, initiative, and confidentiality to optimise the Manager’s time and support Business Unit objectives.
• Coordinate administrative tasks throughout the employment lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding/offboarding, and performance review scheduling.
• Prepare a range of correspondence, including, registers, reports, and spreadsheets, to support Administrative Supports Services Unit needs.
• Review and track incoming correspondence such as Briefing Notes and Ombudsman Enquiries, determine appropriate actions, and escalate when necessary.
• Update and maintain records and databases, ensuring information is accurate, stored correctly, and accessible in consultation with administrative support services staff.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of administration and project services, identifying areas for improvement and coordinating approved actions to enhance efficiency.
• Contribute to various projects to support the achievement of the organization’s strategic and operational objectives.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in delivering high-quality business support services with a professional and client-focussed approach.
• Strong understanding of corporate services, office systems, procedures, and methods, including human resources, procurement and finance policies and practices.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft applications including word processors, spreadsheets, project management tools and record management Systems.

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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.

While the Department of Communities and Justice offers a flexible or hybrid working arrangement some office work will be required and therefore to be considered for this role you would need to live in NSW or be relocating to NSW.
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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 a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

Applications close Tuesday 1 October 2024 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 Maria Kirkman on 04 28 665 589 or at maria.kirkman@homes.nsw.gov.au

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 alternate method submission of the application), please call Reyzhel Velasco on 0400 969 505 or via reyzhel.velasco@dcj.nsw.gov.au

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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