Overview
Senior Client Service Officer (Customer Foundation) – Estate Management - NSW Trustee and Guardian
Ongoing full-time role available - 35 hours per week. Location: Parramatta. Flexible and hybrid working options available. Clerk Grade: 5/6. Base salary $99,938 to $110,271 p.a. plus super and annual leave loading.
About Us
At NSW Trustee and Guardian, our purpose is to support the rights, welfare, and interests of the people of NSW. Whether we are writing a Will, acting as an executor, attorney, trustee, guardian, or financial manager, we are here for critical moments in our customers’ lives. Join our dedicated NSW Government agency and make a difference in the lives of over 47,000 people each year.
Our commitment to diversity
Our workplace reflects the diverse community we serve. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. This includes women, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the LGBTI community and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
About The Team
NSW Trustee and Guardian can be appointed by a court or tribunal to manage a person’s financial affairs if their decision-making ability is impaired due to disability, age, mental illness or injury. Our Estate Management teams deliver high quality financial management services to customers through our Foundation Team, Proactive Customer Management Team and Customer Independence and Support Team. The Customer Foundation Team is responsible for the high-quality onboarding of new customers where a financial management order has been made. The team works with the customer and important people in their life to ensure NSW Trustee and Guardian has a good understanding of the customer’s financial situation, financial decisions that may need to be made and how they can be supported into the future. Also oversees people who are appointed to privately manage the finances of another person.
About The Role
The Senior Client Service Officer supports the Customer Foundation team to provide high quality financial management services to new customers, acts as the initial point of contact and ensures the professional onboarding of customer matters. The Senior Client Service Officer supports customers through the onboarding process and identifies immediate, medium and long-term strategies for financial independence or ongoing management. Assists Client Service Officers in the management of more complex customer issues.
Responsibilities
- Accurately assessing the needs of new customers, based on their individual story and situation.
- Make initial financial decisions, create budgets and triage any complex issues.
- Build rapport with the customer and communicate what they can expect from NSW Trustee and Guardian throughout the various stages of their customer journey.
- Deliver high quality, consistent and timely services to customers, including taking responsibility for higher complexity matters, in line with NSW Trustee and Guardian’s Customer Excellence Principles.
- Ensure a coordinated approach to customer matters by working closely with team members across all NSW Trustee and Guardian divisions.
- Access the required systems and processes to support the management of customer matters and actively suggest improvements.
- Supervise and assist Client Service Officers, including providing support, advice and direction in relation to complex cases and customer situations.
- Exemplify high performance through role modelling NSW Trustee and Guardian’s Customer Excellence Principles, values and behaviours.
About You
Our ideal candidate:
- Has experience and is passionate about supporting people with disability, vulnerable and older people.
- Can proactively promote a positive work culture that drives for results.
- Is an excellent communicator with the ability to work effectively with customers in a range of circumstances, including those experiencing homelessness, substance misuse, chronic mental illness and contact with the criminal justice system.
- Loves to problem solve and adopts a solution focused approach to your work.
- Has strong collaboration skills that will allow you to build and develop working relationships and open channels of communications across all teams in the Estate Management Division, other NSW Trustee and Guardian divisions and external stakeholders.
- Highly motivated and self-driven to provide excellent customer service in a human service environment with also a strong commitment to supporting customers.
- Has the ability to successfully deliver results whilst managing multiple competing priorities for our customers.
Essential Requirements
- Tertiary qualifications and/or demonstrated equivalent industry or qualified experience in relevant area.
- Understanding of NSW Trustee and Guardian’s key services and customer base including experience working and/or supporting people with disability, vulnerable or older people.
- Williness to have phone calls and team email accounts monitored for quality assurance and training purposes, and to participate in one-to-one review sessions for calls and emails.
What We Offer
NSW Trustee and Guardian offers interesting, challenging and rewarding work that has real purpose. Other benefits of joining us include:
- work-life balance with flexible work options (working from different work locations, variable start/finish times, job sharing)
- various leave options (recreation, parental, and flex leave of up to 24 days per year)
- career development including study leave and acting opportunities.
- access to Fitness Passport and employee assistance program, and annual flu vaccinations.
How To Apply
To apply for this role:
- Complete the online application via IworkforNSW.
- Submit a resume (maximum five pages) and brief cover letter (maximum two pages) outlining your skills, experience and suitability.
- Answer the following targeted questions (maximum two pages):
- Describe in detail a scenario where you had to reprioritise your work in order to adapt to changes in the business.
- Please describe a time you handled a difficult customer situation where you had to balance maintaining organisational expectations with providing excellent customer service? Please outline the actions you took, your communication and the outcome.
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Closing date
Applications close 11:59pm, Thursday 9 October 2025.
Enquiries
For enquiries about the role, contact Nigel Wilson – Acting Senior Manager, Estate Management via email:
For enquiries about the recruitment process, contact Antonio Caswell - Talent Advisor via email:
Please do not send your applications directly via email, LinkedIn or SEEK. Only applications submitted via the online portal will be accepted.
Notes
- If you need an adjustment in the recruitment process, please contact People and Culture via email at
- Offers of employment will be subject to reference checks and relevant clearances.
- A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for 18 months.
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- Mid-Senior level
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- Temporary
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