Job Description

Senior Offender Employment Officer – Clerk Grade 9/10
Corrective Services NSW

Location: Francis Greenway Complex – CSI Corporate Office & Parramatta – 6PSQ

Employment typeFull Time Temporary up to 2 Years
Salary: $129,464 to - $142,665 pa + Leave Loading and Superannuation

Your role:

We are looking for a Senior Offender Employment Officer to join the team at Corrective Services NSW. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about having a key strategic role in initiatives designed to provide sustainable employment for inmates following release from custody.

The Senior Offender Employment Officer is responsible for providing high level operations and administrative support to the work release program, ensuring that the team maintains service delivery standards to the required level.

What you’ll do:

As part of this role, you will review, analyse and resolve complex issues, mitigates risks, negotiate and maintain positive relations with all stakeholders and ensure that the service provided is aligned with policy in a changing environment. Additionally, as part of this role, you will be required to:

• Manage offender employment applications, including progress monitoring, documentation review, stakeholder engagement, and outcome negotiation.
• Research and analyse complex policy issues, identifying risks, emerging trends, and evidence-based solutions.
• Provide timely advice and strategic insights to stakeholders on application management, emerging issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Deliver high-level support and governance advice relating to offender employment and Work Readiness programs.
• Provide expert policy guidance to support the interpretation, implementation, and development of organisational and government initiatives.
• Assist strategic planning, reporting, and business plan development aligned with organisational and government priorities.

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Qualifications Required:

• Current NSW Driver Licence and preparedness to drive a vehicle while performing the role.
• Relevant qualifications in Leadership and Management and a Certificate IV in Correctional Practice are desirable and will be highly regarded.

Essential Requirements:

• The role requires strong management, leadership, mentoring and guidance to the team
• Experience which demonstrates the ability to meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities as detailed in the role description.
• Ability and willingness to work with flexibility and commitment to meet demanding workload and deadlines.

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, including access to the Fitness Passport.

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Applying for the role

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To apply directly via the DCJ Careers site click here Search for the job and click the ‘Apply now’ button.

When applying you will need to attach:

• Resume (maximum 3 pages and including 2 Referees – one must be a current supervisor)
• Cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities of this role as specified in the role description (please refer to the Role Description so that you can address the highlighted capabilities)
• Copies of relevant qualifications

Applications close 11:59pm, Thursday 16th July 2026

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Kelly Vandine via Kelly.vandine@correctiveservices.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, please contact Jessica Genovese via Jessica.Saliba@dcj.nsw.gov.au or 0419 440 918

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

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