Role snapshot checked 20 October 2026 · 1 current vacancy
The current shortlist features Project Officer, Governance in the Department of Customer Service’s Closing the Gap Priority Reform 4 program. The role coordinates shared decision-making forums and supports governance and project delivery with government and Aboriginal partners.
Read the role’s conditions and application task before starting. The advertisement requests a cover letter of no more than two pages, a resume of no more than four pages and responses to two targeted questions, with a stated 600-word limit. Confirm how that limit applies in the portal. The card below links to the full guide and official advertisement.
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Choose the work that matches your evidence
Choose an example where you helped a governance process work reliably. Explain the obligation or risk, the information you checked and the paper, register, procedure or advice you produced. Make your own responsibility and the decision it supported clear.
Experience in risk, compliance, policy or project coordination can provide relevant evidence when you explain its connection to the advertised duties. Show how you worked across teams, resolved a gap and followed an action through to completion.
This role calls for experience working with Aboriginal communities, organisations or stakeholders. Show how respectful engagement shaped your approach, and explain how you supported shared decisions, accurate records and action tracking.
What a strong application needs to show
A panel needs to see your judgement in action. Name the obligation or risk, explain how you gathered and tested evidence, show the advice or decision you owned, and give the outcome. For a manager role, make the size of the function and your authority clear. For an officer role, show the accuracy and follow-through that made the process reliable. Keep confidential audit, health and investigation material out of your examples.
Plan the two-page letter and four-page resume around the advertised work. The targeted questions ask about a meaningful project and managing competing priorities. Answer both and check the portal’s placement and 600-word limit before submitting.
In this shortlist
Current roles and application guides
Added 20 October 2026
Project Officer, Governance
Support governance and delivery for Closing the Gap Priority Reform 4, preparing governance papers, maintaining plans and risk logs, and working with government and Aboriginal partners. Experience engaging respectfully with Aboriginal communities or organisations is relevant.
Application requirements
Resume of no more than four pages, cover letter of no more than two pages, and responses to two targeted questions with a stated 600-word limit. Check the guide and portal for placement and how the limit applies.
What to highlight
Prepare examples of a meaningful project and managing competing priorities. Show your contribution, what you learned, organised governance support and respectful partnerships with Aboriginal communities or organisations.