Project Officer 
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency
Closes: 11 November 2025
Classification: Administrative Services Officer Class 6
                Salary: $100,650  - $114,448   plus superannuation 
                        Position No: 58464, several
        Directorate: City and Environment
        Advertised (Gazettal date): 28 October 2025
                Contact Officer: Sven Adler on
                     
                Sven.Adler@act.gov.au 
             
                             
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                (02) 6205 5647 
                    
        
Details: The Regulatory Projects team is seeking a high-performing and experienced Project Officer ready to take on a new challenge.
In this role, you will apply your skills to engage stakeholders effectively and drive progress across projects involving several branches, divisions and directorates. You’ll be responsible for coordinating agreement on project risks and issues, preparing reports, submissions, briefs, and correspondence, and supporting governance forums such as steering committees and working groups.
You may also contribute to regulatory and capability changes that enhance City and Environment services.
Above all, the role requires sound decision-making, strong problem-solving abilities, and efficient workload management across matters of policy, projects, and governance.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.
Eligibility/Other requirements: Visa holders are eligible to apply for both permanent and temporary roles. Those with eligible visas may be considered for permanent employment, while individuals with temporary residency or limited-duration visas may be offered permanent employment for the duration of their visas.
Notes: These are temporary positions available immediately until 30 June 2026 with the possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency.
A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. Selection may be based on application and referee reports only.
This position is in a workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers do not have a designated workstation/desk.
How to apply: Please review the Position Description and submit your curriculum vitae and a two-page pitch that shows us why you are the best person for the job and demonstrates, with examples, that you have skills, knowledge, and capabilities to perform the duties and responsibilities of the role.
Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now button below.
City and Environment
City and Environment Directorate was established on the 1 July 2025. This new directorate is an amalgamation of positions previously advertised under Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate and Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate.
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Note
These are temporary positions available immediately until 30 June 2026 with the possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency.