Senior Risk Officer

Company description:

Department of Communities and Justice

Job description:

Senior Risk Officer

Location - Parramatta

Employment type - Ongoing full-time role

Salary - $133,348.00 - $146,945.00 pa, plus superannuation and leave loading

Your role

The Senior Risk Officer leads and coordinates the development, implementation and evaluation of complex projects that support the department's risk management objectives. Working as part of a team of three Senior Risk Officers, the role is responsible for driving the delivery, continuous improvement and implementation of the department's enterprise risk management framework, ensuring alignment with relevant legislation, policies, standards and best-practice risk management principles.

What you'll do

Provide expert risk management advice to support the development, promotion, and implementation of enterprise risk management policies, frameworks, and practices across the Department. This includes facilitating strategic and operational risk assessments with the Executive Leadership Team, Divisional Executive Teams, and the Enterprise Risk Management Committee to identify risks and develop effective mitigation strategies. The monitoring, review, and reporting on Divisional risk registers, supporting the Chief Risk Officer in enhancing organisational risk maturity, building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, and assisting the Manager in the ongoing development, implementation, and improvement of the Department's enterprise risk management framework.

You will be part of a small 5 person Enterprise Risk Team. We provide guidance to all parts of DCJ. The Enterprise Risk Team is part of Governance, Risk & Compliance, reporting to the Deputy Secretary Corporate Services. The Team is a mix of collaboration on large projects while individual members work independently on their business partner work. We work from the office together Mon & Tue. There are a lot of tight timeframes to meet reporting requirements for the Executive as well as the Audit & Risk Committee.

What we're looking for

In addition to the essential requirements outlined in the role description, the ideal candidate will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline and/or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience in Risk Management.
• Strong understanding of ISO31000 Risk Management Standard.
• Strong understanding of climate risk assessment and reporting.
• Proven ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels to promote risk awareness.
• Experience in preparing risk reports and briefings for executives.

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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 1 targeted question below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

Targeted Question 1

Give an example of a time when you were required to facilitate a risk assessment. What was the situation? How did you manage it? What was the outcome? (Maximum 500 words)

Applications close Wednesday, 16 September 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 Martin Wardle at martin.wardle@dcj.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 (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Anjy Fayad on 02 •••• •042 or via anjy.fayad@dcj.nsw.gov.au

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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.

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