Company description:

Department of Communities and Justice

Job description:

Assistant Project Officer

Location - Parramatta with flexible/hybrid options (Wed & Thu in the Parramatta office. At least 50% of work time in a DCJ workplace)

Employment type - Temporary full-time role for 12 months with the possibility of an extension

Salary - $99,938.00 pa - $110,271.00 pa, plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

As our new Assistant Project Officer, you will work closely with BOCSAR executives and the Reporting and Insights team to ensure efficient communication, coordination, and administration. The Assistant Project Officer is responsible for a range of tasks, including responding to enquiries, drafting correspondence, managing office administration and finance, maintaining business records, and supporting the preparation of reports.

What you'll do

The Assistance Project Officer will work across a range of tasks, often with competing demands.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Respond to departmental requests for information.
• Act as an interdepartmental liaison
• Provide administrative support to Applied Research in Crime and Justice Conference team
• Manage and process expenditure and invoicing (SAP Finance system)
• Digital records management (TRIM or similar system)
• Responding to general enquiries
• Booking meetings and events
• Prepare correspondence
• Update reports and records

About us

The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) is a business unit within the Department of Communities and Justice. BOCSAR is responsible for informing both the public and government about trends and patterns in crime and the criminal justice system. We do this through the release of statistical and research reports, evaluation of programs and policies, fulfillment of ad hoc data requests, and conducting both simple and complex statistical analyses to improve understanding.

BOCSAR also builds and maintains a wide range of statistical databases covering areas such as crime, criminal courts, prisons, youth detention, and reoffending behaviour.

At BOCSAR, we are committed to transparency and open access to information. We continually seek to improve how we share data and insights, adding value to justice statistics to support better understanding and encourage evidence-based decision-making.

The Assistant Project Officer is a key member of the Reporting and Insights Team. This is a small and highly collaborative team, working together to provide timely and accurate information to our internal and external clients.

What we're looking for

In addition to meeting the essential requirements, the successful candidate must demonstrate capabilities in:

• the use of TRIM record management system (or similar).
• the use of SAP Finance system (or similar).
• the use of MS Excel and MS Word.
• Commitment to customer service.
• Oral and written communication and liaison skills.

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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 Wednesday, 6 August 2025 at 11:59 pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Karen Freeman on 02 8688 9800 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 Anjy Fayad on 02 9765 3042 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.

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