Manager, Work Health and Safety
Location: Parramatta CBD (hybrid 50% onsite working arrangement)
Employment type: Ongoing, Full-time (1 vacancy, talent pool may be considered)
Salary - $129,464.00 - $142,665.00 pa, plus superannuation and leave loading
Your role
The Manager is to deliver best practice work health safety (WHS) initiatives, strategies, reporting, services, and advice across diverse divisions within the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) and Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW).
The opportunity is a part of the Work Health Safety Group within People Branch. This role is focused on the management of the ongoing development of the DCJ Safety Management System. It works with a team that provides specialist WHS support, develops and delivers the departments WHS strategy programs and systems.
What you’ll do
The focus of the role is:
- the development and communication of safety-related, policies, procedures, supporting documents, tools, and information to create an integrated DCJ Safety Management System
- providing safety advice as a subject matter expert leading and/or assisting with safety initiatives including projects
- supporting the development and implementation of safety consultation, communication and coordination (3 C’s) practices within the department.
The DCJ workforce is diverse across 8 DCJ divisions and in addition supports CSNSW as an executive agency.
The role reports to the Senior Manager, Work Health Safety and provides safety advice to Senior Executives, Managers and Workers to ensure due diligence and compliance requirements are satisfied.
What we’re looking for
In addition to meeting the essential requirements outlined in the role description, the successful candidate must demonstrate strong capabilities in:
- Facilitating support for WHS requirements while balancing organisational goals and operating parameters and working with external stakeholders, including SafeWork NSW and unions.
- Developing WHS initiatives that meet legislative requirements whilst responding to the changing needs of the business.
- Performing a quality assurance role by developing tools and frameworks to enable business divisions to coordinate reviews, audits, and investigations on all WHS matters.
- Have problem solving capability to embed innovative solutions to historical challenges across large complex organisations and structures.
- Be capable of providing expert and timely advice to build and influence business areas to achieve improved safety culture.
- You must possess a passion for work health safety and the safety of staff, this must be coupled with significant experience and relevant qualifications in WHS
- It is a requirement of the role that you have the capability to use various Microsoft and Adobe software applications that enables you to perform this role
- You are a ‘policy buff’ with experience that enables you to delineate between ‘work as imagined’ vs ‘work as done’ and you can communicate this in your policy creation
- You must possess a current NSW Drivers licence and be willing and able to drive a motor vehicle as the role may require intrastate travel
- You are a natural people leader as this role may have direct reports.
Download the role description.
To apply directly via the DCJ Careers site click here. Search for the job and click the ‘Apply now’ button.
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.
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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:
Targeted Question 1
Outline an occasion where you have identified either a potential non-compliance risk or WHS systems gap and explain how you went about mitigating or putting in place controls to manage the risk, specifically detailing the consultation steps taken and explain the outcome?
Targeted Question 2
Tell us about a time you have contributed to the development of a Safety Management System to ensure compliance with new or updated WHS legislative requirements. Outline your considerations, the steps you took and explain how the benefits gained by the workforce were measured?
Applications close Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at 11:59 pm AEST.
Got a question?
For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Paul Giovenali on 0459 537 953 or at [email protected]
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 Anjy Fayad on 02 9765 3042 or via [email protected]
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 jobs on the DCJ website.
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