Manager Aboriginal Strategy

Department: Aboriginal Strategy; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 154,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A challenging and rewarding career

Flexible, autonomous work environment

Competitive pay and conditions

Training and development opportunities

Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assist

Job summary

Department of Communities and Justice NSW is seeking a Manager Aboriginal Strategy to lead complex policy, strategy and reform initiatives within Homes NSW, driving outcomes for Aboriginal communities.

You will provide high-level guidance to senior leaders, manage resources and teams, and influence stakeholder results to meet strategic objectives. The role emphasizes team leadership, work planning and professional development to align resources with priorities.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Aboriginal people, lived experience, culture and community dynamics.
• Policy and system-level thinking in housing, homelessness or related services.
• Experience engaging and influencing diverse stakeholders to achieve strategic outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level authoritative policy advice to senior leaders and influence outcomes.
• Manage resources and lead a team to deliver priorities.
• Lead work planning, coaching and professional development to align resources.

Skills

Aboriginal engagement

Policy thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Team management

Job description

$154,231 - $178,369 a year

Hybrid

1d ago , from Department of Communities and Justice NSW

Employment type – Ongoing Fulltime, 35 hours per week

Salary – Grade 11/12 ($154,231 - $178,369) plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

This position is open to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Your role

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

As part of the Housing, Strategy and policy team you will provide high-level authoritative advice to senior leaders, manages resources and team members, and influences stakeholder outcomes to achieve Homes NSW strategic objectives.

You’ll 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.
• Have a 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.

As an Identified role, 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 the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977.

There are two alternatives to confirming your Aboriginality, one of which must be uploaded to be considered for the role as follows. Either will be accepted:

Confirmation of Aboriginality form

or

Written confirmation from 2-3 Aboriginal organisations within the community in which you live/work, which addresses the three criteria listed below:

• is of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, and
• identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person, and
• is accepted as a such by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

Download the role description.

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.

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.

Applications close

Tuesday 10 November 2026 at 11:59pm AEDT.

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 jobs on the DCJ website (for all roles except Aboriginal Identified).

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