Project Administrator - Newcastle

NSW Public Service Commission; Newcastle City Council; Hybrid; AUD 86,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Transport For NSW is seeking a Project Administrator in Newcastle to provide project and administrative support across a nominated team, ensuring efficient delivery of activities, reporting, documentation and operations in a complex infrastructure environment.

This role requires demonstrated experience in administrative or project support, strong organization and stakeholder service, with a hybrid working arrangement and three days per week in the office.

Qualifications

• Experience performing administrative or project support tasks with strong document management.
• Organized and customer-focused, able to prioritise competing demands with accuracy.
• Experience in project administration and operational support to achieve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide project and administrative support across a nominated team, ensuring efficient delivery of project activities, reporting, documentation and operations.
• Coordinate information, records, purchasing and project administration in a complex infrastructure environment to support timely outcomes.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and financial administration processes to support business performance and customer-focused outcomes.

Skills

Administrative support

Document management

Reporting

Stakeholder support

Organized

Job description

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Project Administrator - Newcastle

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW

Job category: Projects

Job location: Newcastle, NSW, AU, 2302

Job reference number: 110798

Employment type: Permanent Full-Time

Salary range: $85515.0-$92368.0

You may have been part of some big projects before, but this work is legacy-building.

This is your opportunity to broaden your experience and perspectives, step out of the confines of a standard project role and expand your scope to work with an interconnected ecosystem of industry professionals.

In this role, you'll:

• You will provide project and administrative support across a nominated team, ensuring efficient delivery of project activities, reporting, documentation and operations.
• You will coordinate information, records, purchasing and project administration activities in a complex infrastructure environment to support timely project outcomes.
• You will maintain accurate project documentation and financial administration processes to support business performance and customer-focused outcomes.

About you

• Demonstrated experience performing administrative or project support tasks, with strong document management, reporting and stakeholder support capabilities.
• You’re recognized as organized and customer-focused, skilled at prioritizing competing demands while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• You bring experience in project administration and operational support to achieve effective team performance and project delivery outcomes.

This role requires you to be based in Newcastle and operates under a hybrid working arrangement, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers .

Applications close 11:59 PM on Sunday 20 September 2026.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

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