Introduction
The Coordination Officer at the NSW Reconstruction Authority supports disaster recovery across Lismore and the Far North Coast. This temporary full-time role to December 2026, with the possibility of extension, suits applicants who can connect community needs with the practical work of coordinating councils, partner organisations, resources and recovery priorities.
To understand how to apply for Coordination Officer, focus first on the current resume and cover letter. The cover letter should show how you have organised people and information, responded when priorities changed and produced reports or advice that helped recovery work move forward.
Community engagement is central to the application, but the panel also needs evidence of delivery. Choose examples that explain how you listened to affected stakeholders, balanced competing needs, coordinated resources and turned consultation, research or analysis into a practical outcome.
Applications close Monday 20 July 2026 at 11:59pm. Read the official job ad before submitting.
Role snapshot
- Organisation: NSW Reconstruction Authority
- Location: Lismore and Far North Coast
- Employment: Temporary full-time to December 2026, with possible extension
- Grade: Clerk Grade 7/8
- Salary: $116,981 to $129,492 plus superannuation
- Closing date: Monday 20 July 2026 at 11:59pm
- Official advert: View the Coordination Officer job ad
Application requirements for Coordination Officer
- Current resume
- Cover letter detailing your relevant knowledge, skills and experience
No page limit is stated. Use a concise cover letter that gives enough space to show disaster-recovery coordination, community engagement, reporting and practical problem-solving through specific examples.
Candidate evidence areas for Coordination Officer
Disaster management and community engagement
Show how you worked with affected communities or stakeholders following disruption. Explain how you gathered different perspectives, identified the most pressing needs and converted that information into practical action.
NSW emergency-management arrangements
Demonstrate your understanding of the roles played by government, councils, communities and partner agencies. Use a concrete example that shows how responsibilities were coordinated and where your own role sat within those arrangements.
Coordination, resources and competing priorities
Describe how you coordinated people, budgets, information or projects when demands were changing. Explain the priorities you set, the constraints you managed and the effect of your decisions on the recovery activity.
Reports, briefs and status updates
Give evidence of turning research and operational information into reports, briefs, budgets or status updates. Identify the audience, the decision they needed to make and how you made the information clear enough to support that decision.
Recovery and resilience thinking
Connect your work to longer-term recovery, risk reduction or community resilience. Show how an immediate coordination task contributed to a more sustainable outcome for a community, organisation or recovery program.
Essential role requirements
The role requires tertiary qualifications and/or relevant knowledge and experience, a current unrestricted NSW driver licence, and the ability and willingness to travel within NSW after disasters.
Example cover letter structure for Coordination Officer
1. Opening: Connect your experience to disaster recovery, community resilience and work with regional stakeholders.
2. Community and partner work: Show how you built trust with communities, councils or partner organisations and converted stakeholder input into action.
3. Coordination under pressure: Describe a project or recovery activity involving competing priorities, constrained resources and changing deadlines.
4. Analysis and reporting: Explain how your research, brief, budget or status reporting helped a decision-maker act.
5. Recovery outcome: Show what improved for a community, organisation or recovery program and how you followed through after the immediate task.
6. Closing: Confirm your interest, readiness to travel within NSW after disasters and ability to contribute across the Far North Coast.
Keep the thread between engagement and delivery visible throughout the letter. The panel should be able to see whose needs you were balancing, how you coordinated the response and what changed because of your work.
Help with your Coordination Officer application
Before submitting, compare your examples with the full role description available through the official application portal. Start with the official job ad, then make sure each example identifies the recovery or community problem, the action you coordinated and what changed as a result.
For tailored NSW Government application support, visit Team 3Thirty application support.