Senior Advisor Strategy & Insights

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• Ongoing full-time opportunity (35 hours per week)
• Salary: Clerk 9/10 - $133,348 – $146,945 + superannuation and leave loading
• Hybrid from Sydney CBD - flexible working arrangements and state-of-the-art offices.
• Wellbeing programs and resources available.
• Excellent career development and learning opportunities.
• Working within a supportive, high performing
• team that solves meaningful problems, values continuous learning and wants to
• create the best outcomes for the people of NSW.

Solving

• the hardest problems requires the best people.
• Are you passionate about driving great outcomes for the people of NSW through designing considered strategies?
• Are you an experienced advisor looking for an exciting new opportunity to collaborate with leaders across DCS to transform the way our organisation operates?
• Do you have a customer-centric, solution-focused, collaborative way of working?

If

you answered yes to these questions, then this could be your dream job.

At

• DCS, we tackle the issues that shape how people live, work and do business in
• NSW. Our Corporate Strategy team is the engine room for that change—asking
• the hard questions, sifting signal from noise, and turning insight into
• practical, organisation wide action. If you thrive on solving meaningful
• problems, enjoy working end-to-end across the strategy value chain, and want your work to move the dial for
• citizens and colleagues alike, we’d love to meet you.

We

• are seeking a Senior Strategy Advisor to bring their passion for
• problem-solving to lead and enable the delivery of key initiatives across the
• Department.

What you’ll do

• Diagnose and define: Interrogate data, evidence and trends to pinpoint the root causes of our biggest strategic challenges.
• Design and frame: Shape clear, testable strategic options, business operating models and budget bids that stand up to senior level scrutiny.
• Drive through to delivery: Translate recommendations into prioritised initiatives, success measures and decision papers that accelerate execution.
• Influence for impact: Bring an independent, critical thinking lens to executive discussions—bridging analytics with persuasive storytelling to win buying and secure resources.
• Continuously uplift: Champion structured problem-solving disciplines and intellectual rigor across the team, mentoring colleagues and embedding best practice.
• To be successful
• in this role, you will bring:
• Strategic problem-solving expertise: Applying hypothesis-led, data-driven techniques to clarify complex issues and craft actionable recommendations.
• End-to-end strategy value-chain experience: Demonstrated ability to move seamlessly from framing a problem through analysis and option design to implementation planning and performance tracking.
• Sharp critical-thinking and financial literacy: Comfort dissecting financial models, operational data and qualitative insights to surface the real drivers of value.
• Influential communication: Proven skill translating dense analysis into crisp executive narratives and recommendation papers – briefings, slides and business cases that drive decisions.
• Change orientation: Track record of turning strategic insights into tangible organisational change, with a focus towards citizen outcomes and public value.
• Stakeholder savvy: Ability to build high-trust relationships across diverse functions and seniorities, balancing consultation with independent judgement.
• Growth mindset: Curiosity, adaptability and commitment to lifting he team’s collective capability in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Why

join us?

Impact

• at scale: Your
• analysis and advice will influence policy, services and investments that reach
• every person in NSW.

Intellectual

• stretch: Work on a
• rolling portfolio of the Department’s most intellectually demanding and high-profile
• challenges.

Supportive

• culture: Be part
• of a tightknit, high calibre team that values diversity of thought, healthy
• debate and continuous learning.

Ready

to solve the next big problem with us? Apply now and help shape the

future of customer service in NSW.