Job Description

Team Leader

Location: Western & South West Sydney
Employment: Temporary (1 role, up to 6 months) + Talent Pool
Grade: Clerk Grade 9/10 $129,464 to $142,665 plus superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a leadership role within Housing Services. You will lead a team delivering client-centred services, supporting vulnerable communities and driving strong operational outcomes.

This recruitment will also create a talent pool for future Team Leader opportunities across Western and South West Sydney.

What you’ll do

As a Team Leader, you will lead and support a client service team, ensuring high-quality service delivery across housing and tenancy services.

You will manage team performance, support staff development, and work closely with internal and external stakeholders to achieve positive client outcomes.

You will contribute to strategic and operational priorities while ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.

What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated experience leading teams in complex service environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills
• Ability to manage performance, coach staff and drive team capability
• Experience managing competing priorities and delivering results
• Current NSW driver’s licence

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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 an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

Question 1 - In 500 words or less, describe a time you managed a complex staffing or performance issue. What challenges did you face? What was the outcome?

Question 2 - Give an example of how you engaged with external stakeholders to improve the relationship to assist our vulnerable clients?

Applications close 15 June 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 Sabrina Machmann on 0437 230 304 or at sabrina.bachmann@homes.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 April McCarthy on 0418 639 435 or via april.mccarthy@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.

For more information visit Applying for DCJ jobson the DCJ website.

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

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