Manager Aboriginal Strategy in Parramatta

The Manager Aboriginal Strategy in Homes NSW leads complex policy, strategy and reform initiatives that drive enhanced outcomes for Aboriginal people and communities being supported through the social housing and homelessness service system.

What you’ll do:

• Provide high-level authoritative advice to senior leaders, manage resources and team members, and influence stakeholder outcomes to achieve Homes NSW strategic objectives.
• Lead and drive team management, work planning, coaching and professional development initiatives to align resources and deliver priorities.

What we’re looking for:

• Implement key reform directions under the long-term homelessness and housing strategies, including delivering reform projects to support Homes NSW, DCJ and sector partners to respond better to Aboriginal people and community needs.
• Demonstrated strong understanding of Aboriginal people, lived experience, culture, communities, organisations, ways of working and history.
• Strong understanding of, and ability to apply, policy and system-level thinking within housing, homelessness or related service systems, or demonstrated transferable experience in similarly complex policy or reform contexts.
• Demonstrated experience engaging and influencing diverse stakeholders, including government, delivery partners and/or sector representatives, to achieve strategic outcomes.

This role is open only to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons, Australia’s First Nations people. Where a position is identified, an applicant’s race is a genuine occupational qualification under the exception in Section 14(d) of Anti-Discrimination Act 1977.

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.

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.

Provide an example of a complex issue you have addressed in an Aboriginal strategy, policy, program or community context. How did you analyse the issue, consider different perspectives and broader impacts, and develop a practical solution?

Applications close Tuesday 10 November 2026 at 11:59pm AEDT.

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Renee Wirth at renee.wirth@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, please call Maren Heldt | Talent Acquisition Officer, via 0447 682 014 or maren.heldt@dcj.nsw.gov.au.

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.

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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