Our NSW Government client is hiring for a highly capable Project Officer: Branch Support to join their organisation. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced role, providing project support as well as providing wider coordination and administration services to ensure streamlined operations of the branch.

Role Title: Project Officer: Branch Support

Contract Length: 10/03/2025 to 04/07/2025

Hourly Pay: $55- 61 + Super per hour. 7 hours per day.

Location: Parramatta (2150) ideally, or Wollongong by negotiation.

Role Requirements:

• Provide business, coordination and administration services to support the effective and efficient operations of the branch.
• Undertake diary management, organise travel arrangements, coordinate venue hire and catering, manage information requests, draft correspondence and organise equipment and resource orders for meetings for the Director.
• Manage meeting requests efficiently and refer enquiries and issues to the relevant officers where appropriate in a timely and professional manner.
• Provide secretariat support to regional or branch committees including organising and scheduling meetings, preparing agendas and briefing papers, coordinating presentation materials and logistical requirements, minute taking, drafting and dissemination, documenting decision making processes and actioning items.
• Assist with the collation of confidential and often urgent submissions and responses, reports, briefing notes, Cabinet documents, Parliamentary Questions and House Notes, ministerial correspondence and advice, presentations, minutes and recommendations for approval, in accordance with the Cluster and parliamentary process.
• Support the implementation of human resources related initiatives and associated policies, processes and procedures across the branch such as workforce patterns and development, staff induction, human resources data collection, office accommodation and resources.
• Undertake office coordination activities including processing equipment and resource orders, distributing mail, filing, preparing purchase orders and invoices, receipting items, maintaining asset registers and monthly reporting.
• Assist with data collection, research, assessment and reporting related to Branch priorities, high profile projects, and strategic performance planning.
• Maintain and regularly review administration, record and information systems, processes and procedures to identify areas for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness and make recommendations for improvement.

Challenges:

• Being adaptable and flexible to manage competing priorities in a demanding and complex work environment.
• Effectively communicating and working with a wide group of internal and external stakeholders across all levels.
• Identifying and implementing system improvements that contribute to business efficiency.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Sound experience providing business, coordination and administration support with proven capacity to support high profile projects in a high-pressure environment.
• Highly skilled in the MS Office Suite is deemed essential.
• Experience in Salesforce, Content Manager, Adobe, Visio, SAP/myWorkZone systems is desirable.
• Prior NSW Government experience is deemed highly valuable.

Candidates must be based in the Greater Sydney Area (and able to work in the office at Parramatta or able to work in the Wollongong office full time) and must possess existing full working rights within Australia - no sponsorships are open for this position.

If you feel this opportunity matches your skills and previous experiences, please apply with your CV.