Company description:

Department of Communities and Justice

Job description:

Location - Parramatta

Employment type - Ongoing Full Time

Salary - Clerk Grade 11/12 $145,378 - $168,130pa plus superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Manager for the CHP Maintenance Unit, who will be responsible for overseeing a team dedicated to resolving maintenance-related enquiries for Community Housing Providers (CHPs). This pivotal role involves managing structural maintenance assessments, handling approvals for grant and development applications, and providing expert guidance on general maintenance enquiries for CHPs. You will be working closely with Homes NSW and CHPs to ensure efficient and timely resolution of matters.

As a Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead a team in a fast-paced environment, ensuring operational excellence and continuous improvement. You will provide strategic direction, manage resources, and drive a collaborative culture, all while maintaining high levels of accountability and achieving organisational goals.

What you'll do

The Manager is responsible for providing strategic leadership and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the unit. You will set clear objectives, optimise resources, and foster innovation within your team. The role requires you to ensure efficient service delivery, maintain accountability, and drive continuous improvement within the agency.

You will provide evidence-based expert advice and reports to the Director, ensuring all matters impacting current and future business decisions are considered and offer operational direction and leadership, cultivating an outcome-oriented culture that promotes teamwork, accountability, and achievement.

You will manage budgets, resources, staffing, and projects to achieve organisational goals while ensuring staff are equipped with necessary skills and performance standards as well as oversee the Learning and Development budget and recruitment processes, prioritising work to ensure timely resolution of matters.

You will lead financial planning efforts to ensure effective management of resources and alignment with strategic objectives and ensure the cost-effective use of resources and the smooth operation of the business unit, providing guidance and support to staff.

What we're looking for

• Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline and/or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience especially in relation to stakeholder engagement across the public and not for profit sectors.
• A demonstrated commitment to building relationship with partners internal and external to an organisation.
• Proven experience in the management of complex matters.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a highly collaborative team where your expertise will directly contribute to the success of the organisation. If you are passionate about providing exceptional leadership, driving exceptional partnerships, and making a positive impact on the social housing sector, we would love to hear from you!

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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.

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.

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 Thursday 20 March 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 Rebecca Krumins on 0415070078 or at [email protected]

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 Leanne Chommanivong on 0438 631 489 or via [email protected]

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.

For more information visit Your recruitment journey on the DCJ website.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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