Specialist Compliance Advisor

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Job share options

Workplace adjustments

Employee affinity groups

Job summary

Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) NSW is seeking a Specialist Compliance Advisor to ensure compliant people services and accurate workforce information. You will advise on complex matters, support pre-recruitment and employment verification activities, and coordinate change initiatives across the department.

Join a high‑performing team and contribute to NSW communities while balancing flexible work options, varied projects and inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Interpreting legislation, policies and procedures to provide compliant workforce advice.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for complex cases.
• Customer-focused approach with ability to build relationships across teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support on complex people matters and pre-recruitment checks.
• Coordinate workforce-related requests with managers and leaders across the department.
• Ensure activities align with legislation, policy and best practice.

Skills

Legislation interpretation

Analytical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Time management

Attention to detail

Education

HR qualifications or related discipline

Job description

Shape the integrity of our department through driving fair, consistent and compliant people outcomes.

• Join a collaborative, hardworking team that values shared purpose and practical problem-solving to deliver quality outcomes!
• Temporary full-time opportunity (35 hours per week) up to 30 June 2027
• Parramatta or Orange with flexible working supported
• Salary relative to experience, and ranges from $116,981.00 to $129,491.00 plus super

Join our team and shape your world in a workplace that empowers you to do your best work and build a meaningful career. In this role, you will contribute to shaping lives and communities across NSW, while shaping your own career. You will enjoy flexible work options, varied and impactful projects, and a vibrant, diverse team culture built on collaboration, inclusion and support. We are creating a workplace where everyone belongs and where you can balance work, life and wellbeing.

The role

Join a team that is central to maintaining the integrity of our workforce framework, ensuring organisational establishment and employment conditions remain accurate, compliant and fit for purpose.

As a Specialist Compliance Advisor, you'll provide advice and support on a broad range of complex people matters, helping to resolve challenging cases and support pre‑recruitment and employment verification checking processes and organisational change activities. Working closely with the Manager People Compliance, P&C teams and leaders across the department, you'll coordinate workforce‑related requests and contribute to the successful delivery of organisational and structural change initiatives.

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact behind the scenes by supporting accurate and compliant people services, workforce information and system outcomes. Your expertise will help build confidence in workforce processes and support informed decision‑making, while ensuring activities are aligned with legislation, policy and best practice.

For more information about this position, read the full Role Description: Specialist Compliance Advisor

What you will bring to the role

• Demonstrated experience interpreting and applying legislation, policies and procedures, including the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 (GSE Act), to provide sound advice and deliver compliant workforce outcomes across recruitment, employment and organisational change activities.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to assess complex information, identify compliance risks, interpret legislative and policy requirements, and develop practical, risk‑aware solutions to workforce matters.
• A customer‑focused and collaborative approach, with the ability to build trusted relationships and provide practical advice and support to People & Culture teams, leaders and other stakeholders across a complex organisational environment.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, enabling you to explain complex requirements clearly, influence outcomes, and work collaboratively to deliver accurate, consistent and compliant people services.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to changing business needs, including responding to urgent and high‑priority requests while maintaining quality, accuracy and service standards in a high‑volume environment.
• A strong focus on accuracy, quality and continuous improvement, with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to ensure workforce information, system outcomes and employment actions are compliant, consistent and fit for purpose.

Essential requirement

• Tertiary qualifications in human resources or related discipline, or relevant equivalent experience.

About Us

At the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI), you could shape your world while helping us shape the future of NSW. Together, we create vibrant communities, places and precincts, and manage land, assets and property.

We are a high‑performing organisation that proudly reflects the communities we serve. Our diversity strengthens our cultural capability and enables us to make a meaningful difference in the lives of people across NSW. As an inclusive and accessible workplace, we value your contribution, lived experience and cultural knowledge, and we want you to feel supported, connected and empowered to succeed. With flexible work arrangements, job share options, workplace adjustments and various employee affinity groups, we are here to help you thrive every day.

Join us

If this role sounds like the right fit for you, we encourage you to apply with your CV and cover letter. We’d love to hear from you and explore how you can shape your world with us. Applications close Sunday, 2 August 2026 at 11:55PM. Should you require further information about the role please contact Amanda Jaques, Compliance Lead on [e-mail].

We encourage and support applications from people with disability. Please reach out to us to discuss any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed during the recruitment process, ensuring that you have every opportunity to showcase your talent, skills, and potential. Contact the Talent Team via [e-mail] or [phone] - HR Support, option 2, DPHI People Advisory, option 1 and reference 'Request an Adjustment - Job Title and Reference Number'.

Please note to be eligible to apply for this position you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident or hold a valid Australian working Visa for the duration of the appointment. This role is subject to standard pre‑employment checks, including a criminal record check.

Advertised: 20 Jul 2026 AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 02 Aug 2026 AUS Eastern Standard Time