Manager Enterprise Reporting & Assurance

Company description:

Department of Communities and Justice

Job description:

Manager Enterprise Reporting and Assurance

Location - Parramatta hybrid

Employment type - Temporary up to 2 years

Salary - GR 11/12 $ 154,231- $ 178,369 per annum plus superannuation

Your role

Homes NSW is a division of the Department of Communities and Justice. It brings together the housing and homelessness functions of the Department of Communities and Justice, the NSW Land and Housing Corporation, Aboriginal Housing Office and key worker housing functions from across government all under one roof.

The Enterprise Reporting and Assurance function leads the development and delivery of Homes NSW's enterprise reporting and annual business plan, ensuring the division stays on track to achieve its mission, strategic objectives and reform agenda.

The Manager designs, implements and oversees enterprise-wide reporting, governance and assurance arrangements that support integrated business planning and performance management. The role establishes a consistent approach to tracking annual priorities, benefits, and risks, ensuring that value realisation is measurable, transparent, and readily available to inform executive decision-making aligned with existing frameworks and methodologies.

What you'll do

Working closely with stakeholders across Homes NSW, the role aligns planning and reporting practices and strengthens enterprise capability in benefits realisation and risk management. In conjunction with Homes NSW's Project Management Framework, the role uses existing systems and processes to uplift project and portfolio management maturity across the organisation.

• Lead enterprise business planning and performance reporting to ensure alignment with strategic objectives, divisional priorities and the reform agenda.
• Provide high-quality reporting, performance insights and assurance to support executive decision-making, delivery oversight, risk management, issue resolution and benefits realisation.
• Establish, embed and continuously improve enterprise-wide governance, reporting and assurance frameworks to promote consistency, transparency and accountability, aligned with existing frameworks and methodologies.
• Strengthen enterprise capability in benefits realisation, risk management and assurance to improve delivery confidence, visibility of outcomes and informed decision-making.
• Optimise systems, data and reporting tools to improve efficiency, data quality, governance and organisational project management maturity.
• Identify and lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance enterprise planning, reporting and assurance practices across the division.
• Support the leadership team with existing and new projects aimed at improving portfolio performance.

What we're looking for

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or sound equivalent experience

• Extensive experience in PMO, enterprise‑level project and portfolio management and reporting, with demonstrated expertise in applying complex project management methodologies, governance practices and organisational delivery frameworks

• Strong knowledge of benefits realisation, risk management and assurance approaches, including the design and use of performance measures to track outcomes, manage delivery risks and support value realisation.

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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 4 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining your suitability for the role, including a response to the following targeted question:

• In 500 words or less, outline an example of a project, program, or portfolio initiative where you were responsible for enterprise reporting, assurance, and governance oversight. Please detail the delivery framework or governance methodology applied, how you analysed and presented complex delivery metrics to executive stakeholders, and how you managed stakeholder expectations and supported executive decision-making during a significant delivery risk, issue, or challenge.

Applications close Sunday 23 August at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager feargus.oconnor@homes.nsw.gov.au or 04•• ••• 445.

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 Katie Hardy at katie.hardy@dcj.nsw.gov.au or 04•• ••• 182

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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.

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Profile description:

Working closely with stakeholders across Homes NSW, the role aligns planning and reporting practices and strengthens enterprise capability in benefits realisation and risk management. In conjunction with Homes NSW's Project Management Framework, the role uses existing systems and processes to uplift project and portfolio management maturity across the organisation.

We offer:

• 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.