Introduction
The Senior Project Officer Business Planning at Fire and Rescue NSW works on the systems and projects that help a major emergency service continue operating through disruption. Based in the Sydney Region, this ongoing Clerk Grade 9/10 role suits applicants who can combine business continuity practice with project delivery, stakeholder influence and practical organisational change.
How to apply for Senior Project Officer Business Planning begins with one written document: an up-to-date resume. The first page should quickly establish your experience in business continuity, resilience, risk or business planning, while the achievement bullets should show what you delivered and how it improved readiness, decision-making or service continuity.
The panel needs evidence that you can work independently while bringing operational teams and leaders with you. Select achievements that show business impact analysis, risk assessment, continuity planning, project or change delivery, and the practical use of reporting or digital tools.
Applications close Friday 14 August 2026 at 11:55pm. Read the official job ad before submitting.
Role snapshot
- Organisation: Fire and Rescue NSW
- Location: Sydney Region
- Employment: Ongoing full-time
- Grade: Clerk Grade 9/10
- Salary: Package up to $161,698, including salary of $129,464 to $142,665, superannuation and annual leave loading
- Closing date: Friday 14 August 2026 at 11:55pm
- Official advert: View the Senior Project Officer Business Planning job ad
Application requirements for Senior Project Officer Business Planning
- Up-to-date resume
What happens after shortlisting
Shortlisted candidates are invited to complete a video interview. The advertised link will be sent Monday 17 August, and candidates will have four days to complete the interview.
Candidate evidence areas for Senior Project Officer Business Planning
Business continuity and resilience
Show how you have worked with continuity frameworks, business impact analysis, risk assessment or resilience planning. Name the critical service or organisational capability involved, explain the disruption risk and show how your work improved preparedness or recovery arrangements.
Project and change delivery
Use a project example that shows planning, delivery, dependencies, risks and change. Explain what you owned, how you adjusted the work when conditions changed and how you kept operational stakeholders informed.
Independent delivery and practical solutions
Give evidence of working with limited supervision, identifying a problem and developing a solution that people could use in a real operational environment. Include how you tested the solution, resolved barriers or refined it after feedback.
Stakeholder influence and capability uplift
Show how you worked with leaders, operational teams or partners and helped them understand or adopt a new process. Explain how you handled resistance, competing operational demands or different levels of continuity knowledge.
Digital tools, reporting and knowledge management
Highlight tools, dashboards, reports or knowledge systems that improved visibility, decision-making or organisational readiness. Explain the problem the tool solved and how people used the information.
Essential role requirements
The role requires a tertiary qualification in business, risk, emergency management, public administration or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
Example resume structure for Senior Project Officer Business Planning
1. Profile: Lead with business planning, resilience, continuity and project-delivery experience, including the operating environments in which you have applied it.
2. Selected achievements: Use outcome-led bullets for continuity, risk, business impact analysis, planning, projects and change delivery.
3. Operational relevance: Show how your work protected a critical service, improved readiness or helped leaders make better decisions during disruption.
4. Stakeholder delivery: Include achievements that demonstrate influence, consultation and adoption across leaders or operational teams.
5. Tools and methods: Name relevant frameworks, reporting systems and digital tools in the context of the result they helped produce.
6. Qualifications: List the relevant qualification or make equivalent experience easy to identify.
Prepare the resume so the evidence can also be discussed clearly if you reach the video-interview stage. The best achievements will give you a concise situation, a clear personal contribution and an outcome connected to resilience, continuity or operational improvement.
Help with your Senior Project Officer Business Planning application
Put your strongest continuity, resilience and project-delivery evidence on the first page of your resume. Use achievement-focused bullets that name the operational problem, your contribution and the improvement in readiness, risk visibility or service continuity. Re-read the official job ad before submitting.
For tailored NSW Government application support, visit Team 3Thirty application support.