Senior Project Officer, Business Resilience and Emergency Management

Senior Project Officer,

Business Resilience and Emergency Management

Location: Parramatta and WFH (hybrid working), a mixture of working from the office and home

Employment type: Ongoing full-time role

Salary: Clerk Grade 9/10 ($133,348 - $146,945 pa), plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

This role provides specialist advice, guidance, and coordination to support DCJ business areas in developing, implementing, and maintaining effective business continuity arrangements. This role sits within Corporate Services and directly supports the department’s mission to safeguard vulnerable communities and ensure continuity of essential services during critical events.

What you’ll do

As part of the Infrastructure and Assets branch within the Security and Infrastructure Resilience team, you will report to the Senior Manager. You are responsible for (but not limited to):

• Partner with DCJ business areas to develop, implement and maintain business continuity arrangements that support the continuity of critical services during disruptions.
• Support business areas to develop, review, and maintain business continuity plans, response arrangements and recovery strategies for their critical functions.
• Provide advice on business continuity exercises and reviews to help business areas validate and improve their continuity arrangements.

The successful candidate will join the Business Resilience team within Infrastructure & Assets, based in Parramatta. The team works with business areas across DCJ to strengthen organisational resilience through business continuity planning, testing and assurance activities. The team culture is inclusive, responsive, and focused on delivering outcomes that support service continuity.

We work in an agile, flexible work environment with brand new state-of-the art offices at 6 Parramatta Square and we’re happy to discuss your preferred flexible / remote work arrangements. There are opportunities for career advancement, working flexibly 35hrs per week and flex time.

What we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will have relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in business continuity management, risk management or emergency management. They will demonstrate strong analytical, stakeholder engagement and problem-solving skills, with the ability to provide practical advice and influence outcomes across diverse business areas.

Experience supporting business continuity planning, together with a sound understanding of business continuity principles and frameworks, is highly desirable. The candidate will be collaborative, adaptable, and committed to delivering practical business continuity outcomes while building strong relationships across the Department.

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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 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, 5th November 2026 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 Jamie Preston, Senior Manager on 0413 304 860 or at jamie.preston@dcj.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 Sarah Nguyen on 02 9765 5046 or via thikimyen.nguyen@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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