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Therapeutic Goods Administration
Executive Level 1 & APS Level 6 — Senior Engineer/Scientist and Engineer/Scientist, Medical Devices (Multiple Positions)
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Fairbairn, ACT
Salary: $101,679 to $142,509
Classification: APS Level 6, Executive Level 1
Position number: 26-MDPQDIV-31051
Applications close: Friday, 1 May
Agency website: https://www.tga.gov.au
The role: Key duties include:
Executive Level 1
- Well-developed analytical capability in an engineering or scientific discipline(s) relevant to medical devices, with the ability to apply professional judgment to complex technical issues.
- Experience working in laboratory, manufacturing, testing, or quality-related environments, including hands-on involvement in testing, evaluation, or investigation activities.
- Proven application of test methods, standards, procedures and/or quality management systems (such as ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025, or ISO 13485).
- The ability to work independently with accountability for technical outcomes, and to operate with limited supervision.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare, review and critically assess technical reports, and to provide sound technical advice.
- The ability to provide technical guidance, mentoring, or support to other staff, and to contribute to improvements in methods, processes, or practices.
APS Level 6
- Strong technical problem‑solving skills, including the ability to analyse complex problems and apply sound scientific or engineering judgment.
- The ability to contribute to planning and delivery of laboratory or technical investigations with accuracy, initiative and attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate technical findings into clear, well-reasoned written reports to support regulatory decisions.
- The ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, building productive relationships across engineering, science, and regulatory stakeholders. Adaptability and practical problem‑solving skills, including the ability to innovate, troubleshoot, and contribute to improving test methods, processes, and capability.
- The ability to work independently within their level of responsibility, managing competing priorities and delivering high‑quality outcomes under the direction of senior staff (including EL1 supervisors).
- A commitment to maintaining high standards of quality, safety and compliance in laboratory and regulatory environments.
- Motivation to contribute to public health outcomes and to develop specialist expertise in medical devices and therapeutic goods.
Position contact: Lucan Baillie
Email: [email protected].
Australian National Audit Office
Deputy Auditor-General
Job type: Full-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Barton, ACT
Salary: $363,682 to $500,758
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 3
Position number: 027/2026
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 2
Applications close: Sunday, 3 May
Agency website: https://www.anao.gov.au
The role: Key responsibilities:
- Provide enterprise-wide strategic leadership as a key member of the ANAO executive, supporting the Auditor-General to set direction, drive performance and deliver outcomes that strengthen accountability and transparency, while upholding the ANAO’s independence and reputation.
- Represent and support the Auditor-General in high-level engagements with Parliament, audited entities and other stakeholders, building trust and constructive relationships that enhance the reach and impact of ANAO findings and recommendations.
- Champion audit quality, integrity, independence and professional standards across the ANAO, including shaping and influencing the policies, methodologies and assurance frameworks that guide practice, so audit conclusions are robust, influential and trusted and lead to improvement.
- Lead executive governance, prioritisation and decision-making processes to ensure clear accountabilities, coordinated delivery and effective management of organisational risks, enabling timely, high-quality work with clear public value.
- Drive organisational capability, culture and leadership development across the ANAO, promoting collaboration, inclusion, wellbeing and a strong performance orientation that supports sustained delivery and measurable impact.
- Support stewardship of ANAO resources and organisational sustainability, including major investments, workforce planning and strategic change initiatives, ensuring capability and resources are directed to areas of greatest risk and potential impact.
- Provide leadership during significant issues and change, exercising sound judgment and decisive action in complex, sensitive and high-profile environments to protect ANAO credibility and sustain delivery of high-impact outcomes.
Contact: Beaumont&Beaumont (on behalf of the ANAO)
Telephone: (02) 6126 4500.
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
Executive Director, Science and Assurance
Job type: Full-time, Non-ongoing
Locations: Armidale, NSW; Canberra, ACT
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
Position number: 01278
Applications close: Sunday, 3 May
Agency website: https://apvma.gov.au
The role: The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) is seeking applications for an Executive Director to lead the Science and Assurance program.
The APVMA is an independent regulator established under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992 and oversees the safety, quality, and compliance of agricultural and veterinary chemicals in Australia to protect people, animals and the environment, and support industry and trade. Its Science and Assurance Branch leads key post-market functions — including chemical reviews, recalls, adverse experience reporting, hormonal growth promotion oversight, and manufacturing quality and licensing — while also shaping contemporary, adaptive science policy across the agency.
The Executive Director, Science and Assurance, a senior leader supporting the CEO and serving on the Executive Leadership Team, is responsible for strategic planning, regulatory decision-making and leading high-performing scientific teams while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and inclusion and contributing to whole-of-government priorities. The Executive Director, Science and Assurance is required to be the delegate for making determinations regarding proposed regulatory and final regulatory decisions as part of chemical reviews.
To be a strong contender for this important and challenging role, you will need to be forward-thinking, self-motivated, resilient and adept at building relationships. Your strong leadership credentials and ability to engender trust and respect will be complemented by sound scientific judgment, a strong focus on results, and the ability to resolve complex regulatory science issues in a public-sector context, including by using your regulatory science experience, marshalling resources and leveraging relationships to achieve outcomes.
You will have high-level regulatory science experience relating to agvet chemicals. With extensive executive management experience, you will be adept at providing strategic leadership and direction. You will have a proven ability to identify staff capability requirements and needs and to build motivated and high-performing teams that deliver high-quality work. You will have experience and expertise that enable you to make regulatory decisions as part of delegations of powers regarding chemical reviews and internal reviews of premarket decisions when required.
Position contact: Scott Hansen
Telephone: (02) 6770 2310.
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Statutory Appointment — Executive Director, Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS)
Job type: Full-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Sydney, NSW
Classification: Statutory Appointment
Position number: 26-AICISDIV-31182
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Sunday, 3 May
Agency website: https://www.health.gov.au
The role: The Executive Director of the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS) leads the regulatory scheme for the introduction of industrial chemicals in Australia, whether through importation or manufacture. AICIS aids in the protection of human health and the environment through the regulation, monitoring and risk assessment of the introduction and use of industrial chemicals.
The AICIS Executive Director is an independent statutory office-holder appointed by the Governor-General, with specific powers and functions under the Industrial Chemicals Act 2019.
The Executive Director is responsible for leading the strategic and operational elements of the scheme and is accountable to the Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care.
The role also supports the Secretary of the Department in meeting obligations under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, including annual performance reporting.
The Executive Director is assisted by staff in the Australian Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and scientific staff from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), who assess the environmental risks of industrial chemicals on behalf of AICIS.
Position contact: Amanda O’Rourke
Telephone: 0452 199 031.
Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Statutory Appointment — Office of Gene Technology Regulator
Job type: Full-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Classification: Statutory Appointment
Position number: 26-OGTROGTRDIV-31184
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Sunday, 3 May
Agency website: https://www.health.gov.au
The role: The Gene Technology Regulator is a foundational leadership appointment shaping Australia’s national framework for regulating genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Appointed by the Governor-General as an independent statutory office-holder, the Regulator plays a critical role in safeguarding the health and safety of Australians and protecting the environment.
Supported by the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) within the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, you will oversee the national system for assessing and managing risks associated with GMOs.
As the Regulator, you will provide authoritative, independent decision-making under the Gene Technology Act 2000 and corresponding state and territory legislation, collectively known as the National Gene Technology Scheme. You will champion best-practice regulation, ensure that transparent and evidence-based decisions are made, and foster confidence in Australia’s gene technology framework.
The Regulator has specific responsibility to protect the health and safety of people, and to protect the environment, by identifying risks posed by or as a result of gene technology, and managing those risks through regulating certain dealings with GMOs.
Position contact: Amanda O’Rourke
Telephone: 0452 199 031.
Department of Defence
2027 Indigenous Graduate Pathway
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Various locations: ACT, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Salary: $67,207 to $89,530
Classification: Graduate APS
Position number: D/01277/26
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 3 May
Agency website: https://www.defence.gov.au
The role: The Defence Graduate Program is a 12-month development opportunity designed to launch your career in the Australian Public Service (APS). As a Defence graduate, you will gain hands-on experience, build professional networks and develop the skills needed to make a real impact.
As a Commercial Graduate in Defence, you’ll be enabling the delivery of some of the most exciting, complex and challenging projects in Australia. This is your opportunity to drive meaningful and impactful outcomes that directly support Australia’s national security.
From ships, tanks and fighter jets to the infrastructure and services that support Defence personnel, our commercial specialists are behind it all. As a Commercial Graduate, you’ll help source, purchase and manage the contracts that deliver critical capability to Defence. Whether supporting operations overseas or strengthening our presence at home, your work will support the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and ensure mission success.
This pathway is ideal for graduates who are innovative, critical thinkers; people who thrive in collaboration, bring fresh ideas, and embody trustworthiness and integrity in everything they do.
Contact: Indigenous Graduates
Email: [email protected].
Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority
Project Officer, Hospital Costing
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Surry Hills, NSW
Salary: $101,679 to $114,709
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: s26-IHACPADIV-31224
Applications close: Sunday, 3 May
Agency website: https://www.ihacpa.gov.au
The role: Do you enjoy turning complex information into clear, useful insights? Join our team as a Project Officer and help deliver national projects that support better hospital funding and services across Australia.
In this role, you’ll work closely with a Project Manager to coordinate projects, support hospital cost data collections, and liaise with a wide range of stakeholders. You’ll manage schedules, reporting, contracts and communications, while helping analyse and quality‑check data and improve costing methods.
We’re looking for someone organised, collaborative and keen to make a meaningful contribution to Australia’s health system.
Position contact: Sarah Vassallo
Telephone: (02) 7232 5004.
Department of Defence
Health Practice Manager
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Williamtown, NSW
Salary: $99,733 to $112,431
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: DPG/01943/26
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 3 May
Agency website: https://www.defence.gov.au
The role: Join a team of dedicated health professionals delivering high-quality health care to members of the Australian Defence Force. Within the Allied Health function, the APS 6 Health Practice Manager works under broad direction to perform and oversee complex health administration and management activities within an integrated workforce.
In this role, you will work independently with a high degree of autonomy and accountability for achieving outcomes. You will be expected to exercise initiative and sound judgment when interpreting policy and applying relevant practices and procedures. You will provide detailed health administration, management, technical, professional and policy advice on complex matters, and contribute to strategic planning, program and project management, and policy development.
As an APS 6 Health Practice Manager, you will lead a team and be responsible for setting work priorities and managing workflows. The successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day operations of the health facility and manage a wide range of administrative and coordination activities to ensure patients receive the highest possible standard of care.
Key duties include managing workforce rosters, budget allocations, and workplace health and safety requirements, as well as undertaking governance and quality assurance activities.
Position contact: Nicole Izzard
Telephone: (02) 6571 0495.
Australian Digital Health Agency
Director, Data Strategy and Governance
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Locations: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $148,641 to $175,981
Classification: Executive Level 2
Position number: 0075_04/26
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1
Applications close: Monday, 4 May
Agency website: https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au
The role: The Research, Analytics and Data (RAD) Branch is seeking a Director, Data Strategy and Governance (EL2) for a full‑time ongoing position. Reporting to the Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO), this role supports the CDAO and leads a geographically dispersed team responsible for developing and managing the agency’s data policy, data strategy and data governance framework, aligned to the agency’s work program. The role also oversees the delivery of the agency’s scope of the My Health Record Research and Public Health Program.
Working closely with business areas across the agency, the Director provides leadership, subject matter expertise and strategic support in relation to data strategy and governance. The role is responsible for defining and implementing data maturity uplift initiatives, including agency‑wide data literacy programs, to address strategic data‑related risks across the data asset lifecycle. The position supports branches across the agency to ensure data is trusted, secure and safely accessible, enabling high‑quality, informed decision‑making.
Position contact: Mike Lau
Email: [email protected].
Australian Government Solicitor
Senior Lawyer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Locations: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Security clearance: As required
Classification: Executive Level 1, Executive Level 2
Position number: TBC
Applications close: Monday, 4 May
Agency website: https://www.ags.gov.au
The role: Opportunities exist for dispute resolution senior lawyers to join our Tax team undertaking litigation in a range of practice areas for the Commissioner of Taxation. These include tax appeals and reviews in the Federal Court and Administrative Review Tribunal, judicial review proceedings, and recovery work in various jurisdictions.
Position contact: Jill Mackay
Telephone: (02) 9581 7568.
Department of Defence
Aerodrome Maintenance Program Sponsor
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Amberley, QLD
Salary: $124,393 to $140,315
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: AF/09438/25
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Monday, 4 May
Agency website: https://www.defence.gov.au
The role: We are looking for team members and leaders who enjoy finding solutions to complex problems, actively seek out collaboration with others, and value a diversity of backgrounds and experience. We are seeking people who are able to build rapport with others.
Our ideal candidate will:
- Excel in working with ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
- Be self-motivated and organised with a strong work ethic.
- Thrive in a high-tempo environment.
- Manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- Work autonomously and as part of a team.
- Be flexible while maintaining attention to detail within a dynamic environment.
- Maintain an outcomes focus.
- Possess excellent verbal, written and negotiation skills.
- Have experience with regulatory systems that support safety outcomes.
- Have experience with auditing or assurance systems.
- Adapt to change in a positive and flexible manner.
- Seek to optimise maintenance programs to improve outcomes.
- Exercise initiative.
- Display sound judgment in the interpretation and operational application of policy.
Position contact: Kellie Bolger
Telephone: (07) 5362 0313.
Clean Energy Regulator
Senior Communications and Events Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $102,268 to $116,424
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: CER 034/26
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Monday, 4 May
Agency website: https://cleanenergyregulator.gov.au/careers
The role: The Senior Communications and Events Officer actively engages with internal and external stakeholders to build strong relationships, manage the agency’s presence at externally hosted events, and coordinate agency-hosted events.
The role requires high levels of self-direction, proactivity and problem-solving skills to manage projects and bodies of work with leadership, diplomacy, and confidence from end to end.
Duties of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Plan, coordinate and deliver internal and external events and conferences, supporting agency priorities and contributing to effective stakeholder engagement.
- Manage the agency’s annual events calendar, ensuring timely planning, resource allocation, and performance tracking.
- Manage event logistics, collateral, procurement, records, stakeholders and budgets while ensuring compliance with government regulations.
- Lead regular meetings with internal clients to support the successful delivery of a range of events, providing guidance and maintaining oversight of key activities and their associated records and files.
- Identify and mitigate risks, ensuring events are delivered to a high standard.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships across the agency and with external partners to enhance collaboration and event outcomes.
- Undertake research with internal stakeholders to understand issues.
- Lead post-event evaluation and reporting processes, leveraging insights to inform future engagement strategies.
- Contribute to the agency’s broader stakeholder strategy by integrating event intelligence and feedback into engagement planning.
- Work independently, leading projects, with limited direction within established priorities, practices, and processes to deliver quality outcomes.
- Manage competing priorities, deadlines and requests while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
Position contact: Lisa Glenday
Telephone: (02) 6159 3366.
Digital Transformation Agency (DTA)
Contract Negotiation Support Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $89,836 to $116,343
Classification: APS Level 5, APS Level 6
Position number: 045_03/26
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Monday, 4 May
Agency website: https://www.dta.gov.au
The role: We’re looking for an APS5 or APS6 officer to join the Whole of Government Contracts Branch, supporting a multidisciplinary program of work with negotiation at its core.
This role offers exposure to a broad and varied body of work and is well suited to someone who is organised, collaborative and keen to develop their skills. We welcome candidates with experience in procurement, project coordination, stakeholder engagement, administration, and research involving the use and manipulation of data, as well as those with general familiarity with ICT environments.
Key duties:
- Support negotiation activities as a coordinated project by assisting with planning, scheduling, and tracking actions and deliverables.
- Prepare and maintain clear, practical negotiation documentation, including meeting packs, briefs, discussion papers and supporting materials.
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders across government by helping organise meetings, preparing agendas, capturing notes and following up agreed actions.
- Undertake research and basic analysis to support negotiation positions, including reviewing vendor information, usage patterns and key issues.
- Assist with the use of available data (such as pricing, licensing or usage information) to support briefings and informed decision-making.
- Provide clear, accurate and timely written support to internal teams and senior leaders, contributing to briefs and other supporting materials.
Position contact: Jaison Basil
Telephone: (02) 6120 8418.
Services Australia
Procurement and/or Contract Management Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Locations: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Robina, QLD
Salary: $88,834 to $96,829
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: EXT-APSL-2026-171
Applications close: Monday, 4 May
Agency website: https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au
The role: The Technology Sourcing Branch and Procurement Branch are seeking experienced staff with procurement and/or contract management skills to join our teams.
Procurement and/or Contract Managers within the division work within multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality delivery of a range of procurement and contract management activities. They have a key role in developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the consistent delivery of procurement and contract management services.
The branches have vacancies for Procurement and/or Contract Management officials who bring experience in the following areas:
- Effectively communicating procurement and contract management policy and guidance to stakeholders.
- Supporting the procurement from Standing Offer Panel arrangements, including but not limited to labour hire, management advisory services, hardware and software and Whole of Australian Government arrangements.
- Contract management and administration support.
Position contact: Chris Flinders
Telephone: 0439 678 241.
Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Assistant Director — Operations
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Locations: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney NSW
Salary: $131,960 to $144,908
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: EXT-2026-0034
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Thursday, 7 May
Agency website: https://www.dva.gov.au/about-us/careers/jobs
The role: The Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG), as an agent of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), recognises the service of ADF members who die in war. We also commemorate eligible veterans who survived war service, but who later died from service-related injuries or conditions.
The OAWG maintains war cemeteries, individual war graves and memorials for members of the Commonwealth forces who died during the First and Second World Wars throughout Australia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands and other overseas locations. This includes liaising with corresponding entities overseas to ensure that war graves or memorials of eligible Australian servicemen and women in overseas countries are established and maintained to appropriate standards.
Official commemorations may be in a civil cemetery, a lawn cemetery, war cemetery, crematorium or a garden of remembrance.
The Assistant Director Operations is responsible for overseeing the management of the care and maintenance of more than 356,000 official commemorations for war dead and postwar dead in over 2400 sites across Australia, Norfolk Island and PNG, including 76 war cemeteries and war plots, and 10 gardens of remembrance. Care and maintenance of the estate is managed by staff at the national office and nine depots. Service delivery is provided by both staff and outsourced personnel. A key challenge will be leading and managing vocational staff in dispersed depot locations across Australia.
To succeed in this role, the incumbent will need to operate independently, have a good understanding of Australia’s military history and the program of official commemorations, understand relevant cultural heritage and commemorative contexts, and understand the difficulties of working and managing operations in remote locations.
Position contact: Simon Geraghty
Telephone: 0447 692 391.
