If you have recruitment, HR, onboarding, rostering, workforce administration or people-and-culture experience, there are some useful NSW Government roles open right now.
This is a good pathway because the work is evidence-rich. You can usually prove your fit through examples of candidate care, hiring manager support, accurate records, process improvement, confidential information handling, stakeholder communication and working to deadlines. That is exactly the kind of evidence panels like to see.
The roles below are all current iWorkForNSW vacancies verified from the local NSW jobs database on 3 July 2026, with closing dates from Sunday 5 July 2026 onward. Always check the official job ad before you apply, because application forms can include extra questions inside the portal.
Recruitment, talent and workforce roles open now
Talent Acquisition Coordinator – icare
This is a fixed-term talent acquisition coordination role based in Sydney CBD, with hybrid work noted in the ad. The role is about end-to-end recruitment coordination, onboarding support, compliance checks, candidate care, phone screening and recruitment pipeline management. It is a strong fit for someone who has supported a busy recruitment or HR function and can show they are organised, accurate and good with systems.
Salary: from $87,199 plus super. Closing date: Sunday 5 July 2026. View official job ad.
Talent Acquisition Lead – Projects – eHealth NSW
This is a senior recruitment project role in NSW Health, focused on leading high-impact recruitment initiatives, improving recruitment practice and supporting capability uplift. It suits someone who can show leadership, stakeholder partnership, project delivery and a good understanding of recruitment quality. The ad also notes hybrid flexibility across Chatswood, St Leonards or Charlestown.
Salary: $132,236 to $150,222. Closing date: Sunday 5 July 2026. Application requirements include a CV and cover letter. View official job ad.
Associate Director, Future Workforce Strategies – NSW Ministry of Health
This is a senior workforce strategy role in the Ministry of Health’s Workforce Planning and Talent Development Branch. It is less about day-to-day recruitment admin and more about major workforce challenges, future planning, stakeholder advice and strategic workforce solutions. It is a better fit for someone with senior workforce planning, people strategy, policy, analytics or organisational leadership experience.
Salary: $149,739 to $173,174. Closing date: Sunday 5 July 2026. Application requirements include a CV and two-page cover letter. View official job ad.
Senior Advisor People Innovation and Experience – SafeWork NSW
This role sits in organisational capability, culture and employee experience. The work includes designing and delivering people initiatives, using evidence to improve organisational outcomes, supporting capability uplift and managing people-related projects. It is a good option for someone with organisational development, learning, workforce development or employee experience examples.
Salary: $129,464 to $142,665. Closing date: Monday 6 July 2026. Application requirements include a CV and cover letter. View official job ad.
Senior People & Culture Business Partner – SafeWork NSW
This is a people partner role for applicants who can work with leaders, manage complex people matters and help drive people strategy. The evidence will need to go beyond being “good with people”. Strong applications should show judgement, coaching, stakeholder influence, leadership support and practical handling of employee relations or organisational issues.
Salary: $129,464 to $142,665. Closing date: Monday 6 July 2026. Application requirements include a CV and cover letter. View official job ad.
Manager, RHWIS & Rural Talent Acquisition – Hunter New England Local Health District
This role leads rural health workforce incentive and talent attraction work. It is a practical workforce leadership role, with policy implementation, reporting, stakeholder engagement, recruitment events and continuous improvement all sitting close together. It could suit someone with recruitment leadership, health workforce experience, program coordination or regional workforce attraction experience.
Salary: $114,251 to $134,809. Closing date: Sunday 12 July 2026. View official job ad.
Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme Data Officer – Hunter New England Local Health District
This is a good role for someone who sits between workforce administration and data. The day-to-day looks like extracting, checking, reconciling and reporting workforce, recruitment and incentive data, while working with People and Culture teams and other stakeholders. If your background includes HR systems, Excel, reporting, workforce tracking or compliance records, this one is worth a close look.
Salary: $83,555 to $85,530. Closing date: Sunday 12 July 2026. View official job ad.
Workforce Support Assistant – Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District
This is a workforce administration role supporting recruitment and leave administration for the SMO Services and Medical Workforce Unit. It is a useful pathway role for someone with strong admin discipline, accurate records, document tracking, recruitment support or healthcare workforce administration experience. The strongest evidence will be about reliability, process accuracy and supporting busy teams.
Salary: $71,072 to $73,287. Closing date: Sunday 12 July 2026. Application requirements include a CV and responses to selection criteria. View official job ad.
Manager, People & Culture – Office of the Children’s Guardian
This is a senior people and culture role in a regulatory agency with a child-safety focus. The role is about implementing people strategy, improving leadership capability, supporting workforce outcomes and strengthening organisational performance. It is interesting because the people function is connected to a very clear public purpose, not just internal HR operations.
Salary: $154,231 to $178,369. Closing date: Monday 13 July 2026. Application requirements include a four-page CV, two-page cover letter and targeted question within that document. View official job ad.
Advisor Organisational Development – SafeWork NSW
This role is a strong mid-level option for someone who has worked on capability, learning, culture, organisational change or workforce development initiatives. The work is about designing, delivering and improving OD programs that build capability and support performance. It is a good fit if you can show practical delivery, not just theory about culture or engagement.
Salary: $113,574 to $125,720. Closing date: Tuesday 14 July 2026. Application requirements include a CV and cover letter. View official job ad.
Recruitment Coordinator – Murrumbidgee Local Health District
This is one of the clearest recruitment pathway roles in the list. It is open across full-time, part-time and casual permanent or temporary arrangements, with location negotiable across the district for the successful applicant. The role is about running quality recruitment processes, supporting stakeholders, maintaining recruitment records, tracking documents and helping build the regional health workforce.
Salary: $83,555 to $85,530. Closing date: Wednesday 15 July 2026. View official job ad.
Project Officer (Talent Acquisition) – Department of Customer Service
This is a talent acquisition improvement role rather than a pure recruitment admin role. The work includes reviewing recruitment practices, improving consistency and compliance, analysing current processes, making recommendations and creating procedures, workflows, guides and supporting documents. It is a strong fit for someone who has recruitment experience and can also show project coordination and process improvement evidence.
Salary: $116,981 to $129,492. Closing date: Thursday 16 July 2026. Application requirements include a CV and targeted questions in the online form. View official job ad.
How to choose between them
If your background is mostly recruitment coordination, start with the Talent Acquisition Coordinator, Recruitment Coordinator, Workforce Support Assistant and Workforce Incentive Scheme Data Officer roles. These roles let you show practical evidence: candidate communication, hiring manager support, ATS or HR system use, accurate tracking, compliance checks and keeping a process moving.
If your background is more senior HR, people strategy or workforce planning, look harder at the People & Culture, Workforce Strategies, Talent Acquisition Lead and Organisational Development roles. Those applications need stronger evidence of judgement, influence, program delivery, leadership advice and solving people problems in a complex environment.
The mistake is applying for all of them with the same generic HR application. A recruitment coordination role wants different proof to a workforce strategy role. Before you write, match the role level to the examples you can actually substantiate.
If one of these roles looks like a fit and you want help preparing the application, you can request application support here. We can help you work out what the panel is really asking for, draft the right cover letter or application responses, and make sure your examples are doing the work they need to do.