Latest job vacancies in the Public Sector

Director of Public Prosecutions

Enabling Services
EL1 IT Security Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-Ongoing
Location: Canberra ACT, Cairns QLD
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 24_03
Security clearance: AGSVA NV1 clearance is required; Active AGSVA Baseline security clearance will be highly regarded
Applications close: Sunday, 28 January, 2024
Agency website: https://cdppcareers.nga.net.au/cp
Duties:

• Ensure ongoing Essential 8 Maturity compliance.
• Provide leadership and assist with the mitigation response to the ever-increasing cyber vulnerability.
• Undertake routine cyber risk assessments of the CDPP’s ICT environment.
• Assist with the CDPP’s current IRAP assessment activity; attain IRAP assessor certification and conduct periodic IRAP assessments of the CDPP’s environment.
• Enhance services provided by the Security Operations Centre (SOC) by adapting the CDPP’s log and analysis system to construct business-focused security reporting.
• Increase the cyber awareness of the agency by leading and conducting cyber awareness training, which includes targeting highly vulnerable areas of the business.
• Conduct research and provide recommendations to the ITSA and CISO to increase the CDPP’s ICT Security posture.

Position contact: Mark Ferris
Telephone: (07) 3224 9461

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Therapeutic Goods Administration

Medicines Regulation Division
Prescription Medicines Authorisation Branch Application and Advisory
Management Section
Procurement Officer, Prescription Medicines Authorisation Branch (PMAB)
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Fairbairn ACT
Salary: $75,917 – $80,215
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 23-MRDIV-22405
Applications close: Monday, 29 January, 2024
Agency website: https://www.apsjobs.gov.au/s/external-link?url=https://www.health.gov.au
Duties:

• Administrative processing, contract management and ongoing support for all external evaluator consultancy contracts across Health Products Regulation Group (TGA).\
• Undertake procurement activities in accordance with PGPA Act 2013.
• Performing procurement reporting activities using Expenditure Management in SAP ESS and maintaining the Financial Register for all External Expenditure for end-of-month accruals. Liaising with internal staff such as the case managers and delegates daily regarding submission types and evaluation timeframes.
• Organising and coordinating training and other events for external evaluator.
• Providing ad-hoc advice to staff on any queries that arise relating to procurement, contract management or external evaluators.

Position contact: Dr Nicolle Habermehl
Telephone: (02) 6289 2340

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Department of the Treasury

International Economics and Security Division
EL2 Director, International Economics and Security Division
Job type: Full-Time; Part-Time, Ongoing; Non-Ongoing
Location: Canberra ACT, Melbourne VIC
Salary: $150,245 – $172,429
Classification: Executive Level 2
Position number: 6-2024
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1
Applications close: Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
Agency website: https://treasury.gov.au
Duties: The successful applicant will be required to have:

• Strategic policy leadership on international economic, security and development engagement in the Indo-Pacific.
• Excellent analytical, framework and critical thinking skills.
• Strong leadership skills – both in managing high-performing teams and in contributing strongly to the division’s broader leadership and culture.
• Excellent people skills, including being a positive team player and developing and fostering networks and strong working relationships across government and internally.
• Representing Treasury at a variety of forums and having advanced communicating with influence skills to communicate effectively with high-level stakeholders including the Treasurer’s office, members of the executive, numerous areas within Treasury and other government agencies.

Position contact: Holly Nieuwenhuize
Telephone: (02) 6263 3655

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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Biosecurity Plant and Science Services
Plant Import Operations Biosecurity Assurance Program
Technical Officer
Job type: Full-Time; Part-Time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra ACT
Salary: $78,548 – $86,168
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 2023/3155
Applications close: Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
Agency website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au
The job: As an APS 5 Technical Officer, duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Providing technical support to the Senior Technical and Executive Level officers.
• Assisting in policy development and associated import conditions for plants and plant products based on rigorous pest risk analysis.
• Assessing and/or issuing import permits under the Biosecurity Act (2015).
• Providing technical advice about enquiries for importing plants and plant product commodities.
• Assisting the program to develop and update training and instructional material on biosecurity import policies, legislation and regulatory processes.
• Transforming technical advice into instructional material, training material or import conditions, evaluating training and instructional material and revising the content to align with new information management practices, legislation and technical advice.
• Assisting with the development of a training and competency framework for the branch, assisting the program to deliver training packages to staff.
• Engaging with a range of internal stakeholders.

Position contact: Lenni Hartley
Telephone: 0424 947 610

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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)

Parks Australia
Kakadu & Strategic Reform Strategic Futures Taskforce
Community Liaison Officer – Affirmative Measure – Indigenous
Job type: Full-Time; Part-Time, Ongoing
Location: Darwin NT, Kakadu NT
Salary: $72,002 – $78,386
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 2023/54022
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
Agency website: https://www.dcceew.gov.au
The job:

• Managing the consultation process with TOs for assessing permit applications.
• Communicating and working with Bininj/Mungguy and their representative groups in a culturally sensitive way that creates trust and fosters mutual respect, to jointly ensure that permit applications are assessed appropriately.
• Providing the key point of contact within Kakadu for researchers, NT government staff, and consultants.
• Supporting the Kakadu permit process to assess permit applications, and where appropriate, issue permits.
• Maintaining record-keeping and data management systems.
• Working effectively and cooperatively with the wider Kakadu and Parks Australia staff (especially the Country section).
• Supporting wider Kakadu programs (such as biodiversity monitoring, cultural activities, and fire) as appropriate, by providing logistical support, preparation of equipment/supplies, and participating in field work.
• Supporting the section, as necessary, with various projects including:
  • Assisting with reporting on the Management Plan
  • Assisting with environmental impact assessments
  • Assisting with policy development.

Position contact: Jeffrey Paul
Telephone: 0448 490 722

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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Enterprise Strategy and Governance
Communication and Media
Assistant Secretary, Communication and Media
Job type: Full-Time; Part-Time, Ongoing; Non-Ongoing
Location: Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW, Brisbane QLD, Darwin NT, Perth WA, Hobart TAS, Adelaide SA, Melbourne VIC
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
Position number: 2024/27
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
Agency website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au
The job:
The Assistant Secretary, Communication and Media, will be responsible for leading the branch through:

• Delivering contemporary communication and media strategies, campaigns, and activities. Providing stakeholder engagement advice and facilitation services to the department, including managing its digital engagement platform, called Have Your Say.
• Delivering effective and timely communication responses to emergencies and critical incidents and preparing for critical incidents such as an incursion.
• Managing the department’s web presence through effective web design, publishing and analytics services and user experience (UX) services.
• Providing graphic design, editing and brand management services to the department. Advising the secretary and executive on corporate communication to keep departmental staff informed and engaged.
• Providing media and social media support to the Minister’s office and the department. Managing the operation of their branch, including overseeing the budget, procurement, and all planning and reporting.
• Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, including Ministers’ offices, senior executives and all areas of the department.

Position contact: Tess Bishop
Agency recruitment site: https://awejobs.nga.net.au

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Australian Electoral Commission

Electoral Integrity and Operations Group
State Operations WA Operations
Team Leaders and Assistant Team Leaders, WA Operations
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Perth WA
Salary: $79,169 – $98,223
Classification: APS Level 5; APS Level 6
Position number: 2024-007 Multiple
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 4 February, 2024
Agency website: https://www.aec.gov.au
Duties: We are looking for agile, energetic, self-motivated, results-driven, experienced leaders to guide a team of staff to manage divisional election planning, delivery, and evaluation. A proactive individual who can work under pressure, and independently under limited guidance but comfortable working in a team environment.

During the preparation phase of the electoral cycle, you will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the electoral roll for about 100,000 electors within your division to exercise their franchise at the federal, state, and local government election. While doing this, you will also be leading your team in preparing for the next federal event.

Once we move to the mobilisation phase of the electoral cycle, these critical roles run the largest peace-time activity, mobilising up to 100,000 staff.

You will contribute to the development of team objectives for short-term tasks and strategic planning for longer-term initiatives, including setting priorities for the work area, maintaining team cohesion, and ensuring the quality of outputs for the work area.

You will be responsible for the overall supervision of our temporary election staff, using your leadership skills to support the expanding workforce requirements seamlessly and efficiently.

You will join the leadership team committed to learning and self-development and responsible for building technical capability and fostering the career development of its people.
Position contact: Liam McDonald
Email: [email protected]

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Productivity Commission

Corporate Support Employment Register
Job type: Full-Time; Part-Time; Casual, Ongoing; Non-Ongoing
Location: Melbourne VIC, Canberra ACT
Salary: $61,018 – $162,555
Classification: APS Level 3; APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1; Executive Level 2
Position number: ER-032
Applications close: Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
Agency website: https://www.pc.gov.au/careers
Duties: The opportunities
We are seeking expressions of interest from talented individuals with skills and experience in a range of areas to support the work of the commission.

We encourage you to register if you are a highly motivated individual with qualifications, skills and experience in any of the following functions:

• Administrative and project support communications
• Executive support
• Finance
• Human resources
• Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Library services
• Media
• Office services
• Publications
• Web development, digital design and/or social media.

This register will help us to quickly fill future vacancies that may arise at the APS Level 3 to Executive Level 2 classifications. Positions that become available may be based in either our Melbourne or Canberra offices.
Depending on the business needs and requirements of the commission, these positions may be offered as either ongoing or non-ongoing opportunities, which may be on a full-time, part-time or casual basis.
Position contact: Human Resources team
Email: [email protected]

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Productivity Commission

Inquiry and Research Employment Register
Job type: Full-Time; Part-Time; Casual, Ongoing; Non-Ongoing
Location: Melbourne VIC, Canberra ACT
Salary: $61,018 – $162,555
Classification: APS Level 3; APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1; Executive Level 2
Position number: ER-01
Applications close: Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
Agency website: https://www.pc.gov.au/careers
Duties: The opportunities
We are seeking expressions of interest from talented individuals to join our various teams across our Inquiry and/or Research and Modelling groups.
We encourage you to register if you have a keen interest in public policy, with qualifications, skills and experience in any of the following:

• Economics
• Policy analysis and advice
• Law
• Modelling and data analysis
• Report writing
• Qualitative and quantitative research regulation
• This register will help us to quickly fill future vacancies that may arise at the APS Level 3 – Executive Level 2 classifications. Positions that become available may be based in either our Melbourne or Canberra offices.
• Depending on the business needs and requirements of the commission, these positions may be offered as either ongoing or non-ongoing opportunities, which may be on a full-time, part-time or casual basis.

Position contact: Human Resources team
Email: [email protected]

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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)

Parks Australia
Booderee, Uluru-Kata Tjuta & Joint Management Support Country and Conservation
Country and Conservation Manager – Affirmative Measure – Indigenous
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Jervis Bay ACT
Salary: $115,663 – $124,403
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 2024/4
Applications close: Sunday, 11 February, 2024
Agency website: https://www.dcceew.gov.au
The job:
Under limited supervision, and at the direction of the Park Manager, this role will be required to:

• Manage the Natural Resource Management and Botanic Gardens teams to maintain and enhance the environmental status of Booderee National Park’s Natural Resource Management and Botanical Gardens sections; including but not limited to: feral animal control, weed control horticultural management, endangered species management, ecological application of fire and the translocation of locally extinct species.
• As part of the management team, cooperatively develop solutions to broader park issues with other team leaders, including visitor management, infrastructure management and maintenance.
• Work closely with, and share, the Wreck Bay Community’s vision for a transition to the sole management of BNP and participate in the exchange of knowledge, experience, and skills. Work closely with Park Management and Wreck Bay Community to achieve objectives in the Booderee National Park Plan of Management.
• Lead effective budget management, project and contract management and high-level planning, monitoring, and reporting on plan of management implementation. Undertake high-level stakeholder engagement with scientific institutions, NGOs and neighbouring land and sea management agencies to better manage BNP’s natural resources.
• Have regular communication with the Booderee National Park Joint Board of Management, including preparation and presentation of board papers, and represent BNP on key committees relevant to the functions of the position.
• Plan for, and participate in, park operations, WHS, risk management, workplace participation and diversity programs, fire, emergency, and compliance operations.
• Adhere to all corporate requirements, including but not limited to: Parks Australia chief executive instructions, code of conduct, incident reporting, risk and procurement management and project deliveries.

Position contact: Kylie Ward
Telephone: 0481 908 042

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National Health Funding Body

National Health Funding Body Data Modelling & Analysis
Data Analyst
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Acton ACT
Salary: $89,385 – $100,840
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 20034979
Applications close: Sunday, 4 February, 2024
Agency website: https://www.publichospitalfunding.gov.au/about-us/our-people
Duties: Under the guidance of the Assistant Director, Data, Modelling and Analysis Section, the role of the Data Analyst is to:

• Support the accurate calculation and reconciliation of National Health Reform (NHR) funding, including supporting the development of the Administrator’s Three-Year Data Plan obligations.
• Build, test, implement and manage financial and analytical models using SAS EG, SQL, Teradata, Visual Analytics and Excel.
• Support the delivery of projects, including designing, researching, analysing and presenting information in various formats.
• Interrogate large and complex data sets and synthesise data into non-complex language, and apply analytical capacity to strategic and operational problem solving.
• Undertake supervisory duties for junior team members as required.

Position contact: Beci Imbriano
Telephone: (02) 6289 1470

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Office of National Intelligence

CCTIC
EL1 Research Leads
Job type: Full-Time; Part-Time, Ongoing; Non-Ongoing
Location: Barton ACT
Salary: $118,261 – $133,670
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: Various
Applications close: Sunday, 4 February, 2024
Agency website: https://www.oni.gov.au/vacancies
Duties:

• Overseeing the operation and continued development of the NIC Research Program on behalf of the National Intelligence Community (NIC).
• Regularly engaging with NIC subject matter experts (SMEs) and liaising with Australian academia and research service providers.
• Coordinating and supporting NIC agency science and technology forums and representatives to set strategic direction and disseminate program outputs.
• Detailed liaison with academics undertaking NIC-sponsored research to keep NIC forums, NIC SMEs and international counterparts informed of insights, progress and outlooks.
• Delivering an annual research symposium to disseminate research program outputs to the NIC.
• Monitoring and analysis of programmatic status and the development of potential policy and program development options.
• Reporting periodically to relevant governance committees.

Position contact: Recruitment
Email: [email protected]

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Department of Health and Aged Care

Service Delivery Division
NSW ACT Branch Southern Region Section
Regional Team Support Officer, NSW/ACT State Office, DoHAC State Network
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra ACT, Sydney NSW
Salary: $81,372 – $88,000
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 23-SDDIV-21990
Applications close: Monday, 5 February, 2024
Agency website: https://www.apsjobs.gov.au/s/external-link?url=https://www.health.gov.au
Duties: The APS 5 role is responsible for general support to a regional team across a range of team functions, including:

• Administration and information management (arranging travel, sourcing, sharing and organising key resources, sourcing and analysing data, information organisation and syntheses).
• Communication with internal and external stakeholders on a wide range of aged-care issues, including residential and home care providers, consumer organisations, NSW government agencies (state and local); and DoHAC policy and program areas.
• Support team members to represent the department at engagement activities and provide secretariat support to network meetings and working groups. Respond to stakeholder enquiries resulting from engagement.
• Supporting the resolution of provider issues (such as financial risk) through coordinating information and support from subject matter experts/program areas.
• Supporting the resolution of consumer issues (such as access to services) through coordinating information and support from subject matter experts/program areas. Assist the case management of emergency management events in NSW and ACT.

Position contact: Claudia Walmsley
Telephone: (02) 9263 3594

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Department of Defence

Joint Capabilities Group
ICT Operations Division
Cyber Security Systems – System Administrator
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Harman ACT
Salary: $73,343 – $86,211
Position number: JCG/12914/23
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 2
Applications close: Thursday, 8 February, 2024
Agency website: https://defencecareers.nga.net.au
The role: We are seeking a highly motivated APS 4-5 to join the Cyber Security Systems Infrastructure (CSS-I) team. Under broad direction, the successful applicant will be responsible to the Team Leader – CSS-I for providing ongoing technical support to the Defence Security Operations Centre (DSOC) cyber security systems.
You will have proven experience in the administration of Linux and/or Windows-based systems, as well as familiarity with virtualisation and storage technologies. The duties for this role will include:

• Building and deploying infrastructure changes.
• Contributing to automation for environment provisioning and application deployments. Contributing to monitoring to provide visibility into system and application state.
• Contributing to routine system maintenance, including patching, upgrades and deployments. Participating in troubleshooting application performance issues as required, assisting development teams by identifying root causes or bottlenecks.
• Investigating/prototyping new technologies and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Position contact: Emma Kidd
Telephone: (02) 6249 0621

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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Legal
Several Various
Legal Officer
Job type: Full-Time; Part-Time, Ongoing; Non-Ongoing
Location: Canberra ACT
Salary: $71,444 – $103,145
Classification: APS Level 3; APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6
Position number: 2023/3771
Applications close: Sunday, 25 February, 2024
Agency website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au
The jobs: We have several ongoing and non-ongoing opportunities for Legal Officers. You will report to a Senior Legal Officer. You will need to prepare written advice and provide support to operational officers, including on complex matters, so your ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing is essential. You should be able to be flexible in how you deliver advice and engage with clients. You are in a position of trust within the department and will work under guidance from your supervisor and manager to achieve your objectives.
We are committed to developing and building quality lawyers with recognised and respected experience and qualifications.

Please note that this recruitment process will be used to fill several ongoing and non-ongoing positions across the legal branches. The merit pool may also be used to fill future ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies in the division where the duties are similar.
Position contact: Helena Popovic
Telephone: (02) 6272 2068