Job Description

Talent Acquisition Advisor

Location: Parramatta

Employment type: Temporary Full time 35 hours per week for up to 9 months with possible extension

Salary: $113,574- $125,720pa, plus super and leave loading (Clerk Grade 7/8).

Your role

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor – Team Leader, you will lead high-performing recruitment teams, delivering end-to-end talent acquisition services, expert stakeholder advice, and strategic workforce solutions to meet evolving organisational needs while ensuring efficient, compliant, and high-quality hiring outcomes with positive candidate and client experiences.

What you’ll do

In this role, you will,

• Lead a Talent Acquisition team, championing initiatives to enhance and optimise service delivery to attract high-quality talent to DCJ.
• Build strong client relationships by providing regular updates, expert advice, and solutions to hiring challenges.
• Actively oversee day-to-day team operations, monitoring and directing performance to achieve optimal results.
• Drive service performance, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and integrity across recruitment processes.
• Strengthen team capability while delivering positive, high-quality experiences for both candidates and hiring managers.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in recruitment, including leadership exposure, with the capability to develop and lead high-performing teams.

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex talent challenges in high-volume, fast-paced environments while balancing competing priorities and meeting tight deadlines with minimal supervision.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and provide coaching, training, and guidance to stakeholders and team members.

• Sound knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and recruitment technologies, including applicant tracking systems (ATS) and various recruitment tools

• Proactive, creative, and outcomes-focused mindset, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement and service excellence.

Download the

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

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 an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 1 targeted question below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

Describe a time you took the lead on a recruitment activity or project? How did you guide or influence the team?

Applications close 12 April 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

Michelle Hutchison on O407 843 943 or at Michelle.Hutchison@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

Melissa Briggs on 0447 717 142 or via melissa.briggs3@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, visitInclusion 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 Applying for DCJ jobs on the DCJ website.

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

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