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Australian Federal Police
Executive Director, Australian Institute of Police Management
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Manly, NSW
Salary: $275,604
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 2
Position number: 11390
Security clearance: Negative Vet 1 (Secret)
Applications close: Sunday, 8 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.afp.gov.au/careers
The role: The Executive Director of the AIPM reports administratively to the AFP Executive and is responsible for the effective leadership and management of the institute.
In this role, you will lead a small group of dedicated education and administrative professionals and be responsible for the seamless delivery of contemporaneous executive education, with a focus on ensuring it meets the current and emerging leadership capability development needs of the policing and public safety sector.
To be successful in this role, you will have exceptional management, leadership, interpersonal and communication skills and a proven ability to develop and maintain partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders both domestically and internationally.
You will be adept at understanding the business model of the organisation, and its function within the AFP. You will also apply your commercial acumen to identify opportunities for innovation, business growth and consolidation. You will drive sustainable change across all elements of the business model while maintaining focus on providing value and return on investment, and on maintaining and building the organisation’s reputation for excellence in education and leadership development.
Proven management experience in adult education delivery, a passion for leadership education and a comprehensive knowledge of the policing environment and its cultural and operating frameworks are essential. Demonstrated political acumen and a deep capacity to work effectively across all levels of government will be required, to ensure the organisational outputs of the AIPM are achieved in accordance with its values, regulatory frameworks and the AFP’s financial and governance requirements.
Position contact: Jonathan Beaumont
Telephone: (02) 6126 4500.
Fair Work Ombudsman
Director – Parliamentary and Projects
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $141,878 to $165,963
Classification: Executive Level 2
Position number: 24/115EA
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 8 December, 2024
Agency website: http://www.fairwork.gov.au
Typical duties:
- Providing expert, strategic advice and support to the Executive Director of Policy.
- Producing high-level written materials, including briefs, correspondence and advice.
- Coordinating parliamentary responsibilities, including ministerial correspondence and briefs, leading the OFWO’s Senate Estimates preparations and engaging with parliamentary committees.
- Managing and developing staff.
- Working closely with the Parliamentary and Projects Assistant Directors to ensure team priorities are appropriately resourced and delivered.
- Managing requests for advice that arise in an often unpredictable and dynamic environment, relating to new government initiatives, programs or reforms.
- Developing and maintaining working relationships with key external stakeholders, in particular the OFWO’s portfolio department, members of parliament and staff from international bilateral organisations and overseas governments.
- Establishing broad networks with internal stakeholders to effectively work with other business units across the agency.
- Representing the agency in relevant forums or committees.
Due to the nature of this role, some interstate travel and out-of-hours contact is required.
Position contact: Recruitment Team
Email: [email protected].
Australian National Maritime Museum
Senior Human Resources (HR) Adviser, Performance & WHS
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Pyrmont, NSW
Salary: $90,199 to $101,022
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: M243
Applications close: Sunday, 8 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.sea.museum
The role: The Senior HR Adviser will report to, and work collaboratively with, the HR Manager to provide a range of internal advisory services to build people management capabilities across all levels of the museum. The Senior HR Adviser will engage with a diverse range of stakeholders to make a significant contribution in supporting managers and staff in the agency.
The role will provide complex advice across a spectrum of human resources matters including WHS, probation and performance. The Senior HR Adviser will contribute to process improvement, policy and strategy development initiatives, and support their implementation by providing advice and training.
Working within a small team, a large focus of the role will be around managing the museum’s WHS, performance management, and training processes.
Position contact: Michy Chee
Telephone: (02) 8241 8388.
Australian Digital Health Agency
Product Usability Analyst
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $94,456 to $106,563
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 0709_11/24
Applications close: Sunday, 8 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au
The job:
- Enable clinical and consumer insights to inform usability and experience design.
- Provide guidance and recommendations on digital health products and services.
- Ensure alignment with the agency’s strategy and work plan delivery.
Position contact: Dianne Kalogeras
Email: [email protected].
Department of Home Affairs
Instructor, Littoral Training
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Various locations: ACT, NSW, QLD, TAS, VIC, WA
Salary: $80,748 to $87,572
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 135123
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 8 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au
Duties and responsibilities:
- Highly effective delivery of the Littoral training curriculum.
- Contribute to the design, development and evaluation of Littoral Training.
- Deliver and facilitate training to a range of diverse groups, including provision of physically demanding and specialised Littoral Training.
- Support complex relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve work area and agency goals.
- Work under limited direction within a small team with opportunity for autonomy and accountability in interpreting policy and the application of practices and procedures.
- Assist in managing learning administration tasks and reporting functions.
- Model and promote ethical, inclusive, respectful and equitable behaviour in accordance with the APS Values and Code of Conduct.
Position contact: Brett Davis
Telephone: (02) 6275 6238.
Department of Home Affairs
Border Force Supervisor of District Offices
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Various locations: VIC
Salary: $90,199 to $103,770
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 135119
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 8 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au
Duties and responsibilities: As the Supervisor of District Offices, you will be accountable and responsible for supporting the delivery of a range of activities, which may include but are not limited to:
- Conducting and coordinating routine border activities providing day-to-day/routine departmental functions in respect to the movement of vessels, goods, crew and passengers across the border.
- Managing day-to-day operations, providing set directions, allocating work and managing resources to ensure business needs are met within changing priorities.
- Managing staff performance, including performance assessments, monitoring and reporting attendance, coaching, mentoring and on-the-job training.
- Providing detailed technical, professional and policy advice about complex problems.
- Making real-time decisions, sometimes in situations without precedent, and performing intervention activities to address non-compliance or threats to the border.
- Liaising effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including other agencies.
- Promoting, and ensuring team members behave in accordance with, WHS legislation, policies, directions and reasonable instructions in relation to work health and safety.
Position contact: Daniela Tauafiafi
Telephone: (03) 9235 3199.
Australian Federal Police
Deputy General Counsel (Coordinator) – Executive Level
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $161,105 to $212,583
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 13765
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1 (Secret)
Applications close: Monday, 9 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.afp.gov.au/careers
The job: The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is seeking a dynamic, motivated, highly experienced and suitably qualified senior lawyer with significant experience in (at least two of) the areas of law outlined below to join the AFP Legal team as Deputy General Counsel (Coordinator) of our Commercial, Governance and Information Law teams.
AFP Legal is the AFP’s in-house legal practice, delivering high-quality legal services across the broad spectrum of AFP activities, both domestically and overseas. AFP lawyers work in an exciting and intellectually challenging environment, providing legal advice in the areas of commercial law, criminal law, information law, national security law, dispute resolution, administrative law and employment law.
Reporting directly to the General Counsel Corporate, the Coordinator Commercial, Governance and Information Law (CGI) will provide high-level leadership to the AFP Commercial and Governance team, the Privacy team and the Freedom of Information team. The Coordinator CGI will work in partnership with the Legal Management team, AFP senior executives and external stakeholders to provide high-level legal advice to achieve AFP outcomes.
You will work under the strategic direction of the senior executive and be responsible for the leadership and management of a number of teams to deliver outcomes. You will be required to develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the AFP business and the impact of roles and functions undertaken in AFP Legal in relation to the organisation’s reputation to effectively manage operations.
You will also be responsible for leading and managing a team/s dedicated to delivering a business function to the AFP. The role has both a practical and strategic focus requiring the application of sound business principles in the management of resources to meet AFP outputs in the most effective and efficient manner.
Executive Level employees must also ensure the achievement of outcomes are in accordance with the regulatory framework, the AFP Code of Conduct and the AFP Governance Instruments.
Position contact: Emily Caldwell
Telephone: (02) 5126 7355.
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Quality and Safeguards Commission
Assistant Director – Workforce Analytics and Reporting
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Darwin, NT; Hobart, TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Parramatta, NSW; Penrith, NSW; Perth, WA
Salary: $115,903 to $131,563
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 290_11/24
Applications close: Monday, 9 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au
Key duties of the role:
- Operational and strategic people reporting for the Commission (monthly executive dashboards and ad hoc reporting requirements).
- Management and delivery of external reporting requirements within the APS and to broader public disclosure requirements.
- Improvements to the reporting suite through the development of workforce dashboards and executive briefs/papers.
- Data steward for the People-related data in the organisation.
- Development of data dictionaries and data integrity reporting to improve accuracy and trust in People metrics.
- Collaboration with other corporate reporting functions to find linkages within the data that can be presented to executives for decision-making purposes.
Position contact: Matt Ashes
Telephone: (02) 6146 0777.
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
Senior Project and Support Officer, First Nations Engagement and Reconciliation Team
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Darwin, NT; Hobart ,TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $92,970 to $104,883
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 883_11/24
Applications close: Monday, 9 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au
Key duties: Reporting to the Assistant Director, First Nations Engagement and Reconciliation, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Providing project support and coordination to assist with the delivery of specific Reconciliation Action Plan (IRAP) and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander priorities within the commission to achieve quality outcomes.
- Stakeholder engagement: Building and sustaining positive engagement of both internal and external stakeholders (including the Indigenous Staff Network) and incorporating actions as part of various projects, action plans or tasks.
- Assisting with the coordination and organisation of cultural events and reconciliation activities, which include days of significance across the commission and ISN planning days.
- Supporting the operations of the Innovate RAP Working Group, including the preparation of documents and associated products. This includes coordinating and scheduling meetings, drafting and finalising agendas and minutes, and actively monitoring and updating action item registers.
- Supporting the identification of innovation and best practice for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people to build internal capability.
- Raising awareness about the commission’s reconciliation activities and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-related topics.
- Supporting the delivery of activities that enhance and optimise the commission’s operational field staff engagement with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people receiving aged-care services, and their representatives.
- Other duties required by the External Communications and Engagement section within the field of the APS6 classification against our deliverables.
Position contact: Andrea Cornale
Telephone: (07) 3739 9311.
Geoscience Australia
GIS System Administrator
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Symonston, ACT
Salary: $113,361 to $128,149
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 18962
Applications close: Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.ga.gov.au
Duties:
- Administer user access and licence management to GIS systems, ensuring appropriate product selection, permissions and security measures are in place, including monitoring of user activity for ongoing maintenance of GIS systems.
- Ensure availability, reliability, and performance of ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online, FME and other spatial products and services (XTools, QGIS, ENVI).
- Lead projects to maintain and improve geospatial capabilities and solutions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the requirements and objectives, develop strategies, and support users or teams with geospatial systems and solutions and plans for the implementation and maintenance of GIS systems.
- Administer software upgrades in coordination with various stakeholders across the business. Research, evaluate, schedule and execute upgrades with minimal disruption to users.
- Contribute to the agency’s geospatial capability strategies and capability improvement planning.
- Assist the Spatial Platforms Manager in the leadership and management of GIS technical capabilities for the agency.
- Provide specialist expertise and guide the direction of current and future technology and software for GIS and supporting technologies.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation, including configuration settings, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
Position contact: Rebekah Campbell
Telephone: (02) 6249 5918.
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Australian Public Service Commission
APSC Temporary Employment Opportunity
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Non-ongoing
Various locations: ACT, NSW, QLD, NT, WA, SA, TAS, VIC
Salary: $52,000 to $162,885
Classification: APS Level 1; APS Level 2; APS Level 3; APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1; Executive Level 2
Position number: 24_28
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.apsc.gov.au
Duties: The Australian Public Service Commission (the APSC) seeks to attract, develop and retain diverse, enthusiastic and high-performing employees. To help us achieve this, we maintain a temporary employment register of interested applicants that the APSC can use to fill a variety of employment opportunities across various classifications and business areas. The positions may be full time, part time or casual depending on individual team needs.
To help us better match you with a role that suits your employment preferences, interests and skills, we want to know more about you and the work that you are interested in and we will collect this information via the application form.
If there is a suitable opportunity that matches your skills and experience, you may be contacted regarding your application. Submitting an application does not guarantee employment with the APSC.
The register may be utilised to access candidates to fill roles at short notice, such as advisers on taskforces relating to emerging government priorities, policy roles, governance and corporate roles, management and leadership positions, and administrative support, including Executive Assistants and more.
Position contact: People Team
Telephone: (02) 6202 3834.
Attorney-General’s Department
Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Various
IGIS Talent and Section (26) Transfer Register
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $52,353 to $155,380
Classification: APS Level 1; APS Level 2; APS Level 3; APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1; Executive Level 2
Position number: 0318/23
Security clearance: Positive Vetting level
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.igis.gov.au
Duties: At the IGIS, we are always looking for talented, robust and motivated people to join our team. We have a range of employment options for a career in our office, including those at the APS 1-6 level, Executive level and temporary employment arrangements.
The IGIS Talent Register is a way to express your interest in joining our office. Applications to the Talent Register will remain active for 12 months for consideration.
When appropriate vacancies are identified, we will use this talent register to fill critical gaps in our workforce from the APS 1 to Executive Level 2.
We may fill vacancies in both the corporate and operational streams, including, but not limited to:
- Administration
- Accounting and finance
- Audit
- Complaints
- Corporate support
- Governance
- Human resources
- Information, communications and technology
- Intelligence oversight
- Legal
- Security.
Position contact: OIGIS HR
Telephone: (02) 6141 4490.
Department of the House of Representatives
Committee Office
Temporary Employment Register
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Capital Hill, ACT
Salary: $76,725 to $129,950
Classification: APS Level 4; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1
Position number: Several
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://candidate.aurion.cloud/dohr/production
Duties: The Committee Office is looking for Researchers, Senior Researchers and Inquiry Secretaries to support parliamentary committees in their work of examining policy and legislation, and of scrutinising the executive government, through the provision of procedural, research, analytical, drafting and administrative support.
About the roles:
The Office Manager (PSL4) will be responsible for providing administrative assistance and office support to a small secretariat team comprising a Committee Secretary, Inquiry Secretaries and research staff. The Office Manager processes committee and inquiry documents, maintains secretariat records, arranges travel and committee bookings, and collects statistical information.
Researchers (PSL4) and Senior Researchers (PSL6) work within a secretariat workgroup, providing research, report-writing and administrative support to a parliamentary committee or committees. They work under the direction of the Committee Secretary and one or more Inquiry Secretaries.
An Inquiry Secretary (EB1) is a senior officer in a secretariat headed by a Committee Secretary, providing research, advisory, report-writing and administrative support to one or more parliamentary committees. The Inquiry Secretary supports the Committee Secretary in providing advice to committee chairs and members regarding parliamentary practice and procedure, and in leading and developing junior secretariat staff.
All roles may require domestic travel to support the Committee.
Position contact: Senior Clerk of Committees
Telephone: (02) 6277 4776.
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Net Zero Economy Agency
Various
Net Zero Economy Agency Talent Pool – APS Section 26 Register
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $72,403 to $157,402
Classification: APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1; Executive Level 2
Position number: PMC/2024/105
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.pmc.gov.au/netzero
Duties: The Agency has the job of leading the detailed design and establishment of the Net Zero Economy Authority, and the intended functions of the legislated Authority, which include:
- Investment facilitation – catalysing investment in new industries and jobs, particularly in emissions-intensive regions.
- Worker transition – supporting workers impacted by net-zero transition, particularly workers in coal-fired power stations and dependent mines, transition to new opportunities.
- Policy coordination and coherence – helping coordinate policy and program design and delivery for an orderly and positive net-zero economic transformation, through advice to government and by working on the ground in key regions.
- Communications and engagement – building community understanding, confidence and engagement with net-zero economic transformation.
Position contact: NZEA Corporate Team.
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Net Zero Economy Agency
Various
Net Zero Economy Agency Talent Pool – Temporary Register
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $72,403 to $157,402
Classification: APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1; Executive Level 2
Position number: PMC/2024/106
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.pmc.gov.au/netzero
Duties: The Agency has the job of leading the detailed design and establishment of the Net Zero Economy Authority, and the intended functions of the legislated Authority, which include:
- Investment facilitation – catalysing investment in new industries and jobs, particularly in emissions-intensive regions.
- Worker transition – supporting workers impacted by net-zero transition, particularly workers in coal-fired power stations and dependent mines, transition to new opportunities.
- Policy coordination and coherence – helping coordinate policy and program design and delivery for an orderly and positive net-zero economic transformation, through advice to government and by working on the ground in key regions.
- Communications and engagement – building community understanding, confidence and engagement with net-zero economic transformation.
Position contact: NZEA Corporate Team.
