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Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Lead Analyst
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Melbourne, VIC; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $94,198 to $105,581
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 1862265
Applications close: Friday, 20 June
Agency website: https://asic.gov.au
The role: As a Lead Analyst, your role will encompass the following:
- Shape knowledge resources, refine policies, and troubleshoot complex regulatory system issues.
- Drive user acceptance testing, ensure quality assurance, and train team members while keeping stakeholders informed.
- Supporting system transitions, fostering process innovation, and collaborating with experts to enhance ASIC’s regulatory systems.
Position contact: Sarah Gawman
Telephone: (02) 9911 2838.
Future Fund Management Agency
Cloud Security Lead
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: JR100213
Applications close: Friday, 20 June
Agency website: https://www.futurefund.gov.au
The role: Key duties include:
- System Management and Oversight: Administer and optimise Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Sentinel to support secure identity management, risk mitigation, and centralised monitoring.
- Security Posture Enhancement: Collaborate with Cloud Operations to identify and implement improvements to cloud security standards and configurations.
- Technical Consultation: Provide expert advice to project teams and technology stakeholders to ensure alignment with security principles and compliance obligations.
- Documentation and Support: Contribute to the development and maintenance of technical documentation, including system diagrams and standard operating procedures.
- Research and Continuous Improvement: Monitor developments in Microsoft security technologies and contribute to the evaluation and implementation of enhancements to existing security tools and processes.
Position contact: Jessica Burdett
Telephone: (03) 8656 6400.
Aboriginal Hostels Limited
Night Attendants – Affirmative Measures
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Kalgoorlie, WA
Salary: $59,520 to $64,877
Classification: APS Level 2
Position number: VN7525
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://www.ahl.gov.au
The role: Key duties of the position include:
- Maintaining the safety of residents and the security of the premises.
- Monitoring and authorising entrance and departure of residents, staff and visitors.
- Responding to emergencies.
- Reporting activity and irregularities, including damage to property or maintenance issues, the presence of unauthorised persons or other unusual occurrences.
- Performing general cleaning duties to ensure the hostel is kept clean and tidy.
Position contact: Philip Theseira
Telephone: 0439 000 162.
Department of Finance
HR Adviser
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $98,022 to $119,634
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 2025/093
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://www.finance.gov.au
About the branch: The Human Resources (HR) Branch at Finance manages a range of functions supporting the department’s business operations and the workforce. We provide strategic and operational HR policy advice and services across the employee life cycle, including recruitment, entry-level programs, SES Unit, learning and development, diversity and inclusion, work health and safety, workplace rehabilitation and case management support. We also provide strategic recommendations to our executive board and committees through our workforce strategy, planning, and reporting and analytics.
The HR Branch is looking for new APS 6 HR advisers to join our team. We have immediate vacancies in recruitment, workforce reporting and analytics, diversity and inclusion, and case management. The successful candidates will work among amazing HR professionals delivering outcomes for both Finance and the whole of the APS.
Position contact: HR Partnerships and Engagement
Email: [email protected]
Attorney-General’s Department
Financial Operations Officer
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $86,464 to $91,809
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 0188/25_ES/CSD-EXT
Security clearance: As specified
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://www.ag.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
The role: The AGS Financial Operations team is a high-performing team where communication, innovation and attention to detail are highly regarded.
If you possess the following skills, we want to hear from you:
- Demonstrated ability to manage a variety of tasks and competing priorities within tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated experience working within a fast-paced, high-performing team.
- Exceptional customer service skills when liaising with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring timeliness and accuracy.
- Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to articulate clearly.
- An outcome-driven mindset and the ability to apply innovative ideas that improve the quality and efficiency of services.
- Experience with a wide range of IT systems, including a variety of financial management systems.
- Being accountable to deliver a high level of service when working under limited direction.
Other qualifications: Experience with Elite 3E, Concur, CTM and Pexa is desired.
Position contact: Kelly Peck
Telephone: (02) 6253 7021.
Comcare
Senior Inspector, Psychosocial Regulation
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Newcastle, NSW; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $99,985 to $110,946
Classification: Level 6
Position number: 01439
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://www.comcare.gov.au
The role: Key duties of the position include:
The Senior Inspector, Psychosocial Regulation supports and undertakes a range of workplace health and safety (WHS) regulatory activities specific to psychosocial risk in accordance with relevant legislation, policy and procedures under minimal direction and supervision. This work includes: WHS-related prevention programs, campaigns, health and safety audits, stakeholder engagement, presentations, inspections and investigations across a wide range of industries. The role may require the delivery of specific regulatory programs arising from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
The role delivers and assists to drive the provision of timely, high-quality services in a nationally consistent, regional service delivery environment. The role requires working as a team and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders including employers, workers, complainants, health and safety representatives, employer associations, unions and federal and state government agencies.
Contact: [email protected]
Telephone: 1300 366 979.
National Gallery of Australia
Manager, People Strategy
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Parkes, ACT
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 1102
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://nga.gov.au/about-us/jobs
Key duties: In accordance with the APS Executive Level 1 work-level standards, you will:
- Work with the head of HR to provide leadership and support, with a focus on continuous improvement and development, to the HR team.
- Manage, deliver and provide expert, solutions-focused, legislatively compliant and contemporary HR advice on a range of HR functions including industrial relations, HR policies and procedure, enterprise agreement and bargaining, learning and development, workforce planning, culture and engagement.
- Provide expert, evidence-based, legislatively compliant, and accurate HR advice and reports to the senior executive and council.
- Undertake project work to develop people-related initiatives and supporting guidance materials for employees and managers.
- Lead, coach and mentor a team.
- Effectively and responsibly manage resources in accordance with finance and procurement processes.
Position contact: Fiona Torline
Telephone: (02) 6240 6625.
Federal Court of Australia
Cultural Liaison Officer
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Dandenong, VIC; Melbourne, VIC; Parramatta, NSW; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $84,228 to $91,809
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 0444-05-25
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://www.fedcourt.gov.au
The role: The CLO is fundamentally a support role to assist culturally and linguistically diverse litigants through the court system. There are several elements to the CLO role:
- Providing procedural support to culturally and linguistically diverse litigants and connecting them to legal and social supports, such as refugee legal services, migrant and asylum-seeker resource centres, services assisting migrant and refugee community members with housing and homelessness social services, counselling and mental health support.
- Supporting litigants to connect with appropriate interpreter services where necessary.
- Providing dedicated support for litigants in detention environments.
- Engaging with relevant community organisations and legal and social support agencies to enhance referral pathways between the court and essential legal and social services for culturally and linguistically diverse litigants.
- Under the guidance of the Director – Cultural Liaison Officers, the Director – Registrar and Migration Operations and Support, and Director – Access, Equity and Inclusion, assist with internal research, education and training development on the needs and circumstances of culturally and linguistically diverse litigants.
Position contact: Wajiha Ahmed
Telephone: (02) 8067 2195.
Defence Housing Australia
General Manager – Development and Construction
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Gungahlin, ACT
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
Position number: 5443
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://www.dha.gov.au
The role: The General Manager, Development and Construction will be responsible for ensuring DHA’s development and construction projects are delivered in accordance with their provisioning requirements and DHA’s corporate objectives.
The role will be responsible for delivering multi-project housing development programs. Such programs may include civil works, greenfield or brownfield development projects, integrated housing or medium-density housing projects, low-rise apartments, house construction and house upgrade projects.
The role will be responsible for program scope negotiation and management, feasibility analysis, project budgets and schedules. The role requires extensive experience, expertise and sound commercial judgment to provide detailed recommendations to the Executive Management Team regarding the most appropriate use of available funds.
Position contact: Tricia Searson or Lauren Searson-Patrick
Telephone: (02) 6232 2200.
Defence Housing Australia
Chief Governance Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Gungahlin, ACT
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
Position number: 493653
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://www.dha.gov.au
The role: The Chief Governance Officer (CGO) leads the Governance and Communication (G&C) Branch, which sits within the People and Compliance (P&C) Group. The P&C Group brings together three critical teams: Governance & Communication, Legal Services, and Human Resources, which play unique roles and, together, enable DHA to function effectively and efficiently.
The CGO provides best-practice leadership and advice, influencing the development and implementation of strategies for governance outcomes. The CGO is a key engagement role across the whole of DHA’s activities, building and maintaining relationships with DHA’s board and key stakeholders, including joint ministers and government agencies. The CGO also holds the positions of Chief Security Officer, Chief Audit Executive, and Principal Officer delegate under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013.
Position contact: Tricia Searson or Lauren Searson-Patrick
Telephone: (02) 6232 2200.
Department of Finance
HR Adviser
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $126,885 to $153,655
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 2025/094
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: https://www.finance.gov.au
About the branch: The Human Resources (HR) Branch at Finance manages a range of functions supporting the department’s business operations and the workforce. We provide strategic and operational HR policy advice and services across the employee life cycle, including recruitment, entry-level programs, SES Unit, learning and development, diversity and inclusion, work health and safety, workplace rehabilitation and case management support. We also provide strategic recommendations to our executive board and committees through our workforce strategy, planning, and reporting and analytics.
The HR Branch is looking for new EL1 HR advisers to join our team. We have an immediate vacancy in workforce strategy and planning.
Position contact: HR Partnerships and Engagement
Email: [email protected]
Bureau of Meteorology
Operations Support Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Cairns, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Darwin, NT; Hobart, TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $94,563 to $105,910
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 60019121
Applications close: Sunday, 22 June
Agency website: http://www.bom.gov.au
The role: The National Operations Coordination Team (NOCT) is responsible for scheduling training and rostering of skilled resources. The NOCT liaises daily with leaders across the bureau to ensure appropriate resources are activated with sufficient lead time.
While located in National Production Services, within Community Service Group (CSG), this role will support the functions of Aviation, Land and Maritime Transport (ALMT) operations within Business Services Group as well as National Production Services (NPS), Environmental Prediction Services (EPS) and Decision Support Services (DSS) within CSG.
Reporting to the National Operations Coordination Team Lead, the primary responsibilities for this role are to support resource planning in response to operational needs and impacts, focusing on short-term (zero to seven-day) resource demands and allocation, as well as monitoring and planning for longer-term (weeks, months, seasonal) operational capacity.
You will provide support to NOCT Team Lead, Planning and Operations Lead and broader National Operations Coordination Team in managing operational response. You will also liaise with operational leaders across various groups as required to ensure that appropriate resources and rosters are activated and established, with sufficient lead time.
Position contact: Sam Thompson
Email: [email protected]
Finance Project Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC
Salary: $95,438 to $108,360
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 2025/1866
Applications close: Monday, 23 June
Agency website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au
The role: Key duties include:
- Performing high-level analysis and evaluation of finance business improvements.
- Conducting testing activities such as planning and management, and supporting the overall user-acceptance testing process.
- Support change, communications and training development and practical assistance for projects and business improvement initiatives.
- Engaging and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to drive continuous business improvements.
- Providing advice to project teams and sponsors on emerging risks and treatments to minimise the impact of project deliverables on end users.
- Developing productive relationships with project members and stakeholders using influencing skills to ensure they meet project deliverables while managing their expectations.
- Coordinate production, approval and distribution of clear, concise and consistent project documentation for multiple audiences.
- Represent the team at internal and external meetings, as required.
- Initiate, build and maintain productive internal and external working relationships.
Position contact: Adam Douglas
Email: [email protected]
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)
Administration and Finance Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $84,794 to $93,020
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 2025/1552
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Tuesday, 24 June
Agency website: https://www.dcceew.gov.au
The role: Key duties of the position include providing administration and financial services support for the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG), including:
- Assisting with management of service contracts such as pay parking, cleaning and utilities (water, electricity and gas), including undertaking tender processes as required.
- Assisting with management of donation programs.
- Assisting with budget development, forecasting and revenue management, including monthly financial reporting.
- Preparation of journals and end-of-month processing, including end-of-month accrual pack.
- Providing a full range of accounts payable and receivable services, including banking and revenue reporting.
- Assisting with the management of general office services, including inbox management.
Position contact: Craig Cosgrove
Telephone: 0407 292 628.
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Darwin Aged Care Programs Assistant Director – QLD NT Aged Care NT Section
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Darwin, NT
Salary: $120,842 to $137,823
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 25-SDDIV-29197
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Tuesday, 24 June
Agency website: https://www.health.gov.au
The role: As the Assistant Director in the Darwin Local Network Office, you lead a team to perform a range of functions, including stakeholder engagement, program assurance and stewardship of the aged-care system, as well as supporting connection between aged-care and health programs in the Northern Territory.
Responsibilities include:
- Lead and coordinate a team supporting the aged-care sector in the Northern Territory.
- Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of aged-care systems, programs and policy.
- Work in partnership with local stakeholders to support solution brokerage and delivery of program outcomes.
- Represent the department at engagements, including with service providers, consumers, and NT Government and other Commonwealth agencies.
- Provide support to the aged-care sector through delivery of reforms, including commencement of the new Aged Care Act from 1 July.
- Gather intelligence and report on departmental programs outcomes and the local conditions that impact service delivery.
- Identify and report on emerging issues and risks, and develop and deliver risk management and mitigation activities.
Position contact: Maya Murphy
Telephone: 0407 970 588.
