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Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Data Governance Policy Specialist
Job type: Full-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $131,725 to $144,386
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 1875455
Applications close: Friday, 15 August
Agency website: https://asic.gov.au
The role: The Data Governance Policy Specialist supports the development and implementation of ASIC’s data governance framework by maintaining standards, monitoring compliance, managing data risks and supporting data ethics initiatives.
This also includes secretariat duties for governance bodies, collaboration on common language and taxonomy and contributing to research, communications and project delivery.
More specifically, you will:
- Support the development and implementation of data governance standards, policies, and processes to ensure alignment with ASIC’s framework and strategy.
- Establish systems and measures to monitor compliance with governance policies, agreements and risk management frameworks.
- Provide secretariat support for the Common Language Panel, including oversight of taxonomy development and approvals.
- Coordinate secretariat functions for the Data Governance Council, AI Board, and key projects, including meeting preparation, reporting and action tracking.
- Contribute to the cataloguing of ASIC’s data assets, policies and standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain the Common Language Vocabulary and Taxonomy in Collibra, ensuring consistency and standardisation.
Position contact: Sarah Gawman.
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
Senior Education Officer – Learning Solutions and Strategy
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Hobart, TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Parramatta, NSW
Salary: $96,503 to $108,869
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 668_07/25
Applications close: Sunday, 17 August
Agency website: https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au
The role: As a Senior Education Officer within the Sector Education team, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of project work. Working within a team of education professionals, you will be responsible for developing, coordinating, delivering and quality control of a range of education products and programs for aged-care providers, older people and their representatives. You will be responsible for developing educative resources including, but not limited to, static resources, videos and online learning. You may also be required to facilitate sector workshops either individually or with a team of facilitators.
Position contact: Natalie Saliba
Telephone: (08) 8432 3560.
Department of the Treasury
Data Administrator
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $132,786 to $152,319
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 20-2025
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 17 August
Agency website: https://www.treasury.gov.au
Key duties: We value cultural fit and collaboration. We’re looking for someone who is positive, self-driven, and eager to make a meaningful impact.
This is a direction-setting role with a focus on team dynamics. You’ll contribute directly to ongoing technical operations and future platform initiatives, including:
- Enhancing and sustaining our hybrid database platforms to meet both present operational needs and future strategic goals.
- Lead capability uplift initiatives within the team, including mentoring, knowledge sharing, and identifying opportunities for professional development and technical training.
- Champion data stewardship and compliance practices, ensuring database operations align with departmental policies, privacy obligations, and data governance frameworks.
- Acting as Subject Matter Expert to business areas on matters of database design and performance.
- Maturing cloud-native data solutions in Azure, with a focus on governance and automation.
Position contact: James McArthur
Telephone: (02) 6263 2267.
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts
Senior ROVER Level 1 Support Officer, Vehicle Safety Operations
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $86,291 to $91,809
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 46968
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 17 August
Agency website: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au
The role: Tasks of the Senior ROVER Level 1 Support Officer in their day-to-day work can include:
- Drafting and updating scripts and templates for the ROVER Helpdesk.
- Managing the ROVERInfo mailbox, including triaging of emails and managing response times.
- Being the first point of escalation for complex calls and emails.
- Contributing to reporting as necessary.
- Engaging with stakeholders about their applications and the related policy and standards.
- Working with the team leader to prepare and deliver training materials.
- Managing the timely assessment of ROVER ID verifications and Authority to Act verifications.
- Contributing to achieving a positive and innovative organisational culture.
Position contact: Josh Greaves
Telephone: (02) 6136 7814.
Office of National Intelligence
Facilities Manager and Event Support – NIC Innovation Hub
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Barton, ACT
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: Various
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 17 August
Agency website: https://www.oni.gov.au
The role: Key duties of the position include:
- Building strong relationships with partners from across the NIC, industry and academia to ensure the facility is achieving its aims.
- Being the key point of contact for the use of the facility and all event-related activities in the Hub, including managing Hub events: i.e., bookings, attendance, escorting visitors, setting up and cleaning after meetings, and arranging catering.
- Maintaining successful day-to-day operations of the Hub, including the development and implementation of Hub management SOPs.
- Ensuring a high level of physical and personal security is maintained while supporting efficiency and ease of access to the Hub.
- Management of contracts, assets and consumables in line with relevant government legislation and policies.
- Oversight of IT and AV equipment and ensuring compliance with relevant IT procedures and security protocols.
- Liaising with the agency’s Corporate Facilities Management and Security teams, as well as the Building Manager, for building maintenance and management, and security controls.
- Ensuring the Hub has designated and trained personnel in key workplace safety roles, including health and safety representative, fire warden, and first aid officer.
Contact: ONI Recruitment.
Australian National Maritime Museum
ICT Service Desk Level 1 Support
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Pyrmont, NSW
Salary: $75,022 to $81,775
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 0054
Applications close: Sunday, 17 August
Agency website: https://www.sea.museum
Key duties: The ICT Service Desk Level 1 Support role is pivotal in delivering high-quality, customer-focused technical support to ensure the Australian National Maritime Museum’s ICT systems and users are supported efficiently and effectively.
This role serves as the primary point of contact for IT-related inquiries, providing timely resolutions, maintaining accurate records, and contributing to continuous service improvement.
Please note: This recruitment process is intended to fill both current and future vacancies. While the position on offer is non-ongoing, a merit pool of suitable applicants may be established to fill similar ongoing and non-ongoing positions within the next 18 months.
Position contact: Zak El-Khatib
Telephone: (02) 9298 3602.
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)
Senior Logistics Officer – Cargo Quality Assurance
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Hobart, TAS
Salary: $84,794 to $93,020
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 2025/2135
Applications close: Sunday, 17 August
Agency website: https://www.dcceew.gov.au
The role: Cargo Quality Assurance is an important role within the AAD’s Supply Chain Operations, working to maintain and ensure optimal cargo-packing systems in support of the Australian Antarctic Program (AAP). The position engages regularly with Logistics Officers across cargo facilities, Station Supply Officers on stations, the Maritime Operations team, and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders throughout the operational season.
Position contact: Kyle Travers
Telephone: 0439 595 315.
National Disability Insurance Agency
Assistant Director, Insider Threat and Assurance
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD; Deakin, ACT; Geelong, VIC; Midland, WA; Richmond, VIC; Rockingham, WA; Surry Hills, NSW
Salary: $120,530 to $131,919
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 2052_07/25_EXT
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 17 August
Agency website: https://www.ndis.gov.au
The job: The Cyber Security and Resilience Branch implements the requirements of government security policies and frameworks. This is achieved by providing strategic, tactical and operational agency-wide oversight of Cyber Security and Operations.
Insider Threat and Assurance is an intelligence team responsible for developing, enhancing and maintaining a proactive detection and prevention program to counter the threat posed by a trusted insider. Using intelligence methodology with available data and technology, Insider Threat and Assurance analyses behaviours of staff to determine risk and provide mitigating advice to reduce the overall harm to the agency.
The position is an important team leadership role within the NDIA and has delegated authority and responsibility to detect and resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities of substantial depth involving significant detail.
The EL1 Assistant Director, Insider Threat and Assurance is accountable, under broad direction, to undertake complex work that delivers quality outcomes across the functions of the NDIA.
The position will exercise a significant degree of independence and will use a high level of decision-making and judgment. The Assistant Director will be required to coordinate and assume responsibility for highly complex or sensitive projects and work program outcomes across the insider threat, intelligence and risk management functions that have strategic or operational significance to the NDIA.
Position contact: Peter Vujanic
Email: [email protected].
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
Lawyer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Barton, ACT; Brisbane, QLD; Docklands, VIC; Haymarket, NSW
Salary: $101,303 to $115,406,
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: Various
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 17 August
Agency website: https://www.austrac.gov.au
About the opportunity: The role offers exposure to the public sector, including the National Intelligence Community, law-enforcement and other regulatory agencies, central policy departments, as well as the private sector, including large financial institutions and other regulated entities.
AUSTRAC’s in-house legal team supports the agency in the performance of its regulatory, intelligence and corporate functions and provides advice on a broad range of legal issues, including:
- Enforcement-related matters and litigation
- Statutory interpretation
- Administrative law
- Privacy, commercial, contract, property and employment law.
Position contact: Samille Lawrence
Email: l&[email protected].
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Media Manager
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $119,501 to $133,305
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: #090_07/25
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Monday, 18 August
Agency website: https://www.aihw.gov.au
The role: Key duties of the position include:
The Communications and Engagement Unit (CEU) promotes the institute and its work through media, stakeholder engagement, internal communication and ministerial liaison. It takes a leading role in helping AIHW staff to produce interesting and informative work. It is also responsible for the institute’s corporate reporting and parliamentary functions. The unit comprises four teams – strategic communications and stakeholder engagement, media, authoring support, and parliamentary and corporate reporting.
The AIHW is looking for a highly organised and motivated media professional with superior stakeholder engagement and writing skills to join its CEU team.
Reporting to the unit head and working as part of the broader CEU team, you will promote the work of the AIHW by developing media releases, social media content, external newsletters and articles, assisting journalists with their inquiries, briefing spokespeople and proactively generating media coverage – all in a fast-paced environment.
You will need to be able to lead a small team, write high-quality media releases, monitor, manage and report topical issues, respond to media inquiries in a timely manner, develop social media content and promotional materials, provide media training and advice to staff, and manage the relationship with media and ministerial and department contacts.
Critical to the role will be the ability to build trusted relationships with the media and key internal and external stakeholders.
The Media Manager is a key senior position within the unit primarily responsible for overseeing the management of communication with the media, external stakeholders, ministers and departments, and providing high-level communication advice to senior management.
Position contact: Rebecca Richter
Telephone: (02) 6244 1254.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Assistant Director, Finance Business Partner
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW;
Salary: $124,861 to $134,295
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 2025/2577
Applications close: Monday, 18 August
Agency website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au
The role: The Assistant Director, Business Partner provides business advice and support to teams on operating and capital budget and resource management and control, forecasting, business application systems and risk management to assist in achieving strategic outcomes.
The duties include, but are not limited to:
- Providing strategic financial advice and analysis of the group/division’s financial performance.
- Providing accurate, timely and value-added information and independent advice to key internal stakeholders on a range of financial issues, including regular finance, resource and business reports, and analysis and forecasting of operational and capital financial performance.
- Providing leadership in the identification and implementation of better practices in compliance with legislative requirements.
Position contact: Glenn Tyler
Telephone: (07) 3246 9061.
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Operations Analyst
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $116,245 to $133,968
Classification: APS Level 6
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Monday, 18 August
Agency website: https://www.asis.gov.au
The role: A Level 6 Operations Analyst will:
- Engage in activities to maintain and enhance your professional knowledge and technical skills to effectively achieve required outcomes.
- Deliver capabilities and provide support in line with organisational priorities and capability proficiency (usually one or more of analysis, coordination, reports, requirements and/or targeting); and have or gain experience across more than one mission area of the organisation. Capability proficiency will be achieved through appropriate exposure, experience and training.
- Contribute to organisational capability development, support the development of junior officers and contribute to operations analyst workforce training.
- As required, temporarily act as team manager, which will include leading team members, managing workflows and assisting with strategic planning.
- Actively engage in supporting and building a psychologically safe team environment.
Defence Housing Australia
Property Group Business Manager
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Gungahlin, ACT
Salary: $122,963 to $150,065
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 493685
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Monday, 18 August
Agency website: https://www.dha.gov.au
The role: The Business Manager provides strategic and operational support to the Executive General Manager, with responsibility for governance, reporting, and operational oversight across the Property Group. Leading a small team focused on reporting and governance, the role ensures alignment with strategic priorities and promotes operational excellence.
Operating with a high level of autonomy, the Business Manager offers expert advice, manages complex issues, and fosters collaboration across the Property Group. Strong planning, analytical and communication skills are essential to support executive decision-making and integrate governance and reporting frameworks effectively.
As a trusted adviser, the Business Manager represents the Executive General Manager in various forums, enabling informed decision-making and coordinating cross-functional initiatives that align with corporate objectives.
Position contact: Brendon Jones
Telephone: 0421 041 173.
Australian Government Solicitor
Senior Assistant, Business Services
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: TBC
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Monday, 18 August
Agency website: https://www.ags.gov.au
The job: In this role, you will:
- Act as the first point of contact for all visitors to the Adelaide office.
- Provide high-quality service to internal and external clients by acting in a professional, welcoming, and efficient manner at all times.
- Manage internal and external switchboard calls.
- Act as the first point of contact for the building management and third-party contractors on facilities management requests and on-site issues.
- Coordinate meeting room bookings, manage calendars, and order catering for events.
- Process all outgoing mail and courier requests.
- Receive, sort, and distribute incoming mail and packages.
- Support the national library teams with barcoding, loose filing, and loan requests.
- Code and process invoices.
- Process and manage all Records Management requests and work with the National Records Management network on audits and destruction projects.
Position contact: Kim Da Pozzo
Telephone: (02) 6253 7272.
Federal Court of Australia
Judgments Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $75,022 to $81,775
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 0658-07-25
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Monday, 18 August
Agency website: https://www.fedcourt.gov.au
The role: Key duties include:
- Monitoring and actioning emails in the Judgments group mailbox.
- Monitoring the formatting of documents to ensure security, accuracy and consistency, and amending them in some cases.
- Allocation of Medium Neutral Citation numbers and pseudonyms.
- Uploading and amending records in judgments databases.
- Distributing judgments to AustLII and legal publishers.
- Creation of judgment alerts.
- Liaising with and assisting judges’ associates regarding the technical aspects of judgment production, including the judgment template and style guide.
- Anonymising final versions of family law judgments before publication.
- Participating in judgment-related projects.
Position contact: Georgia Livissianos
Telephone: (08) 7201 6016.
