Corporate Governance Specialist (Temporary Opportunity up to 20 months)

You see the big picture, you’ve always worked on a grand scale, and now you’re ready to re-focus on grand impact.

You’ll have the opportunity to use your expertise in communication, problem-solving, empathy and conflict resolution to help thousands of people every day.

In this role, you'll:

Be part of the Asset Program team within Asset Management of the Engineering and Maintenance Directorate within Sydney Trains.  This role plays a critical part in supporting the Corporate Governance Framework across Sydney Trains and Transport for NSW. You will provide secretariat, governance, compliance, and business support to ensure strong governance practices and alignment with organisational standards.

Key responsibilities include maintaining delegations frameworks, ensuring organisational policies are current, and workplace practices comply with Sydney Trains and TfNSW’s governance and compliance requirements. Your work will help ensure compliance with all relevant legislative and statutory obligations.

These responsibilities include:

• Establish decision making framework for approving and escalating decisions
• Leads program governance, Key decision log, action log, Dependency, Reporting, Risk, Issues, benefit tracking, portfolio & Quality Management
• Develops the executive Steering Committee, program control steering and relevant working group SteerCo packs
• Secretariat, follow up on key action items from meetings
• Tracking quality of Working group development, chairing, document
• Managing RASCI of all accountable parties ensuing any scope gaps can be identified and addressed
• Ensuring Preliminary Business Case  & Final Business Casee INSW assurance financial Gates are met (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
• Ensure Compliance to all other Controls / frameworks (e.g. Treasury Investment gates / Configuration Gates, CCB) 

This is a temporary full time position until 30/6/2027.

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.

About you

You are highly organised and experienced in supporting large working groups and managing records with precision. You excel at tracking deliverables and ensuring progress is maintained across complex projects.

You are an experienced governance professional with a strong background in supporting complex projects and managing sensitive information. You thrive in highly regulated environments and have the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders effectively.

To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Proven experience providing confidential corporate governance support in a project environment.
• A comprehensive understanding of secure document and information management requirements.
• Ability to prepare progress reports for all levels of working groups and provide secretariat support for business cases.
• Knowledge of best-practice corporate governance, ideally within a highly regulated environment such as NSW Government.
• Strong coordination skills to manage governance forums involving internal and external stakeholders.
• Capability to produce information packs and progress reports to support governance forums and meetings.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

At Sydney Trains, our rail services keep Sydney moving by putting our customers at the centre of everything we do. We work with our local communities to deliver safe, timely and efficient rail services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Our trains and network are evolving to meet the needs of our customers now and well into the future. We’re continuing to integrate technological innovations that help us deliver a smarter and more sustainable network.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team’s home base location with remote days. 

What are you waiting for…? Connect with us.  Apply now!

Applications close: 11:59 pm Sunday 30 November 2025.

For more information about this role, please contact JAGADEESH.SETHURAMAN@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal people or Supporting people with disability for more info or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us. 

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