Property Manager

Location - Sydney CBD

Employment Typer - Ongoing Fulltime

Salary & Grade - Clerk grade 7/8 $113,574 - $125,720

Your role

The Anzac Memorial, located in Sydney’s Hyde Park South, is the State’s principal war memorial and a heritage-listed landmark of national significance. Opened in 1934, rededicated in 1984, and expanded in 2018, the Memorial now features a permanent exhibition gallery, education spaces, and versatile venue facilities. This unique site blends historical importance with contemporary design, serving as a place of remembrance, learning, and public engagement.

The Memorial is supported by the Office for Veterans’ Affairs within the Department of Justice. Open daily (except Christmas Day and Good Friday) from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, it is easily accessible by public transport in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.

Your role

As Property Manager, you will ensure the highest standard of presentation and functionality for NSW’s principal war memorial. This hands-on role involves managing all aspects of facilities and property services for a high-profile heritage site with modern extensions.

What you’ll do

• Preserve Heritage & Maintain Compliance: Manage programmed and reactive maintenance for a state heritage-listed site, ensuring compliance with conservation standards.
• Drive Operational Performance: Oversee property and infrastructure service contracts, ensuring suppliers meet KPIs and NSW Government procurement standards.
• Champion Safety & Security: Lead WHS and security protocols, acting as the primary contact for emergency response outside business hours.
• Manage Budgets & Resources: Monitor and report on property budgets, ensuring efficient allocation aligned with annual planning.
• Hands-On Support: Assist with minor maintenance tasks and physical activities, including moving furniture and equipment when required.

Your work will help safeguard a landmark of national significance and ensure a safe, welcoming environment for visitors and staff.

What we’re looking for

• Ex-service personnel within the Australian Defence Force are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Demonstrated experience managing heritage sites or cultural institutions with public access.
• Strong skills in contract management, including NSW Government procurement processes, compliance, and governance.
• Confident in budget management and financial systems (experience with SAP/MWZ is advantageous).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate across diverse stakeholders.
• Thrive in a hands-on role and are committed to heritage preservation and public service.

Essential Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing a heritage site or cultural institution with public access.
• Proven ability to manage resources and budgets for public facilities.
• Experience in the management and delivery of property and infrastructure service contracts.

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What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career

• Flexible, autonomous work environment

• Competitive pay and conditions

• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

• Outline your relevant skills in managing maintenance services in a public facility, including experience programming tasks for high-volume operational requirements such as events and booked facility use.

• Describe your experience in procurement, budget management, and financial processing.

Applications close Sunday 01st February at 11:59pm AEDST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Belinda Mitrovich via [email protected].

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please contact Matthew Oakley via [email protected].

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

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