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About the Role

This is an executive leadership opportunity to influence system-wide improvement across custodial services, drive evidence-based reform, and strengthen public confidence through rigorous inspection, review and reporting activities. The Inspector provides independent oversight of custodial environments across the state, promoting transparency, accountability and improved outcomes for adults and young people in custody.

Responsibilities

Lead inspections and thematic reviews of adult and juvenile custodial centres, providing independent advice and recommendations directly to Parliament.
Oversee the Official Visitor programs across NSW, supporting approximately 100 Official Visitors through training, guidance, and strategic coordination.
Provide strategic leadership to the Office of the Inspector, ensuring sound governance, financial management, and compliance with statutory obligations.
Engage with Parliament, government agencies, and community stakeholders to promote transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement in custodial environments.
Identify and address systemic and cultural issues within custodial settings, advocating for reforms that enhance safety, equity, rehabilitation, and service efficiency.

Requirements

Significant executive leadership experience gained within the public, regulatory, integrity, oversight, legal, justice, human services or related sectors.
A strong understanding of governance, accountability frameworks and the operation of complex public sector environments.
Demonstrated ability to lead independent review, inspection, investigative, assurance or oversight functions with professionalism, impartiality and integrity.
Exceptional strategic thinking and judgement, including the ability to assess complex and sensitive issues, identify systemic risks and develop practical recommendations for reform.
Outstanding stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with proven capability to influence senior decision-makers and build credibility across diverse audiences.
Experience leading organisational performance, people, financial management and governance functions within a complex environment.
A commitment to promoting transparency, human rights, safety and improved outcomes for people in custodial or other government service settings.
A deep understanding of complex justice, regulatory, integrity, oversight or human services systems, public sector governance, and whole-of-government reform principles.
Experience working within, regulating, reviewing or providing oversight of complex justice, human services, regulatory or government systems.

Skills

Strategic thinking
Judgement
Stakeholder engagement
Communication
Organisational performance
People management
Financial management
Governance

Location

Sydney CBD

Work Type

Statutory Term Appointment

Experience Level

Executive leadership

Salary/Compensations

$334,375

About the Company

The Inspector of Custodial Services is an independent statutory office holder established under the Inspector of Custodial Services Act 2012.
Reporting directly to the NSW Parliament.

Equal Opportunity

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit
Committed to hiring 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.