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Director of Public Prosecutions
Enabling Services Analyst
APS5 Evidence Services Analyst
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing, Non-ongoing
Location: Sydney, NSW; Brisbane, QLD; Melbourne, VIC
Salary: $80,619 – $87,752
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 24_29
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 12 May, 2024
Agency website: https://cdppcareers.nga.net.au/cp
Duties: In addition to meeting the Integrated Leadership System profile of the APS 5 level, primary outcomes and accountabilities will involve:
- Undertake evidence-processing tasks including data import/export and electronic file remediation using electronic tools such as Relativity, Excel, MS Access, Adobe Acrobat and related technologies.
- Utilise a range of document management and litigation support systems to manage and analyse supplied evidentiary material.
- Assist with the preparation, compilation and reproduction of documents and briefs for court.
- Provide advice, support and assistance to internal clients in relation to evidence review and management inquiries in line with jurisdictional requirements and CDPP policies.
- Manage workload in accordance with agreed service levels and key performance indicators.
- Develop plans and objectives for short-term tasks or long-term initiatives.
- Perform other special projects or duties when required.
Position contact: Angela Bunting
Telephone: 0458 027 111.
National Portrait Gallery of Australia
Executive
Executive Assistant
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Parkes, ACT
Salary: $83,145 – $89,587
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 7415
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 12 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.portrait.gov.au
Duties:
- Coordinate the operations of the Office of the Director, including provision of high-level administrative support with diary management, meetings, hospitality, events, briefings and presentations.
- Support the Executive Officer to implement seamless processes around the Executive Office to maximise communication and efficiency with the broader staff.
- Support the Executive Officer to coordinate, anticipate and validate the Gallery Director’s strategic efforts to ensure the gallery is on track for achieving Revive cultural policy outcomes.
- Support the Gallery Director’s main priorities with agenda development, meeting coordination and verification of facts, assumptions and details for the Gallery Director’s decision-making.
- Monitor the gallery’s critical activities in accordance with the gallery’s PGPA Performance Framework (Corporate, Strategic and Annual Report) timelines.
- Using initiative and good judgment, refer matters to appropriate staff for resolution, escalating to the Executive Officer when required.
- Liaise on behalf of the Director with a range of stakeholders including members of the gallery, board, donors, government officials, diplomats, and the Gallery Executive with confidentiality and discretion.
- Coordinate and prepare the agenda for Executive and all staff meetings.
- Coordinate arrangements for domestic and international travel and visits for the Gallery Director, board/foundation members and other officials as required.
Position contact: Jacob Choi
Telephone: (02) 6102 7051.
Department of Defence
Defence People Group
Joint Health Command
Enrolled Nurse
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Edinburgh, SA
Salary: $67,339 – $74,197
Classification: APS Level 3
Position number: DPG/03062/24
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 12 May, 2024
Agency website: https://defencecareers.nga.net.au
Duties: As the APS 3 Enrolled Nurse, you will work as a part of a team, a key member in the Primary Health Care Team model, completing occupational health reviews and supporting Australian Defence Force Health, including sick parade and triage roles.
- You will be able to understand and apply medical terminology and balance the needs of the patients (ADF members) and the health centre capabilities.
- You will be highly adaptable and able to manage change at short notice.
- You will foster customer service within your practice.
- You will have the ability to liaise with external stakeholders and other health service providers and facilities including ADF members, doctors and nurses.
- You will have strong IT, written and verbal communication skills; previous experience in nursing; well-developed relationship-building skills; demonstrated ability to work in a team environment; a strong work ethic and ability to maintain confidentiality.
Position contact: Tamarah Ott
Telephone: (08) 7374 3224.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Housing and Specialised Services Group Housing and Homelessness
Collection Operations Unit
APS4 Trainer/Hotline Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $75,274 – $81,528
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: #046_04/24
Applications close: Sunday, 12 May, 2024
Agency website: https://aihwcareers.nga.net.au/cp
Duties:
- Undertake training for homelessness sector workers about the SHS collection and associated systems via face-to-face or using online training platforms.
- Respond to AIHW hotline telephone and email inquiries about the SHS collection, and associated data collection tools and systems.
- Communicate regularly with SHS agencies to provide timely advice and support.
- Investigate issues and contribute to the resolution of problems.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of procedural documents.
- Work within clear guidelines and established work practices to set priorities and undertake specialist, procedural and operational tasks.
- Communicate with state and territory jurisdictions and provide ad hoc administrative reports.
- Assist in any ad hoc tasks or projects.
Position contact: Michael Robertson
Telephone: (02) 6249 5121.
Department of Health and Aged Care
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
Medical Radiation Services Primary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory
Senior Radiation Scientist
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Yallambie, VIC
Salary: $114,988 – $132,264
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 13291
Security clearance: NV1
Applications close: Monday, 13 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.arpansa.gov.au
Duties:
- Maintain and operate graphite and water calorimeters for the measurement of absorbed dose in radiotherapy beams, to provide traceable calibrations.
- Develop enhanced capability for the water calorimeter system relating to electron and proton beams.
- Arrange comparisons and implement the new water calorimeter system as the Australian primary standard of absorbed dose, replacing the present graphite calorimeter primary standard.
- Undertake collaborative research programs in the area of radiation dosimetry.
- Represent the section on internal ARPANSA committees; contribute to scientific reports, standards and codes; and participate in external committees, conferences and workshops of national and international relevance.
Position contact: Duncan Butler
Telephone: (03) 9433 2274.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
General Manager, Research
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Bruce, ACT
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
Position number: 0004
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1
Applications close: Monday, 13 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.aciar.gov.au
Duties:
- Be an active member of the executive team, providing strategic advice to the CEO and building ACIAR into a safe, inclusive, high-performing and innovative agency.
- Lead active research and capacity-building teams that design and implement projects and programs through a lens of continuous improvement, to deliver high impact.
- Ensure ACIAR’s research and capacity development investments align with Australia’s development policy, ACIAR’s investment framework, and regional and country priorities.
- Develop and communicate the Research team’s strategic direction, aligning activities with ACIAR’s broader objectives and inspiring team unity and purpose.
- Lead ACIAR’s strategic engagement with Australia’s agricultural innovation system to identify existing capacity and foster emerging capacity that can deliver the greatest impact.
- Manage expenditure effectively and efficiently to maximise the impact of ACIAR’s investment in research and capacity development, in line with Australian and partner country government requirements.
- Promote engagement across ACIAR’s key areas of research, partnerships and corporate functions, to facilitate a safe, inclusive and cooperative culture and a high-performing work environment.8. Demonstrate unwavering commitment and integrity, consistently uphold public service values, actively embrace and manage risks, and exhibit personal courage. Be resolute in decision-making and exhibit resilience in the face of challenges in all aspects of your role.
Position contact: HR Support
Telephone: (02) 6217 0500.
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
General Support Officer/Branch Executive Assistant
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $72,509 – $87,967
Classification: APS Level 3; APS Level 4
Position number: VAN03320232024
Security clearance: Positive Vetting
Applications close: Monday, 13 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.asio.gov.au
Duties:
AE3 General Support Officers:
- Provide basic administrative assistance to executive support teams and other areas within the branch.
- Rotate through different teams within the branch to provide administrative assistance as requirements change.
- Develop a thorough understanding of ASIO processes and procedures and implement these within your work.
- Undertake tasking such as record management, collating material, printing, and preparing briefing material.
AE4 Branch Executive Assistants:
- Provide administrative support to senior officers and the branch more broadly.
- Diary management including providing logistical support such as room bookings, meeting invites and travel arrangements.
- Printing and collating meeting papers, meeting minutes, reports and briefs.
- Working closely and collaboratively with other executive assistants, and senior leadership more broadly.
- Monitor, track and prioritise responses to incoming and outgoing communications.
Position contact: ASIO Recruitment
Telephone: (02) 6257 4916.
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
General Support Officer/Branch Executive Assistant
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $72,509 – $87,967
Classification: APS Level 3; APS Level 4
Position number: VAN03320232024
Security clearance: Positive Vetting
Applications close: Monday, 13 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.asio.gov.au
Duties:
AE3 General Support Officers:
- Provide basic administrative assistance to executive support teams and other areas within the branch.
- Rotate through different teams within the branch to provide administrative assistance as requirements change.
- Develop a thorough understanding of ASIO processes and procedures and implement these within your work.
- Undertake tasking such as record management, collating material, printing, and preparing briefing material.
AE4 Branch Executive Assistants:
- Provide administrative support to senior officers and the branch more broadly.
- Diary management including providing logistical support such as room bookings, meeting invites and travel arrangements.
- Printing and collating meeting papers, meeting minutes, reports and briefs.
- Work closely and collaboratively with other executive assistants, and senior leadership more broadly.
- Monitor, track and prioritise responses to incoming and outgoing communications.
Position contact: ASIO Recruitment
Telephone: (02) 6257 4916.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
General Manager, Research
Job type: Full-Time, Non-ongoing
Location: Bruce, ACT
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
Position number: 0004
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1
Applications close: Monday, 13 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.aciar.gov.au
Duties:
- Be an active member of the executive team, providing strategic advice to the CEO and building ACIAR into a safe, inclusive, high-performing and innovative agency.
- Lead active research and capacity-building teams that design and implement projects and programs through a lens of continuous improvement, to deliver high impact.
- Ensure ACIAR’s research and capacity development investments align with Australia’s development policy, ACIAR’s investment framework, and regional and country priorities.
- Develop and communicate the Research team’s strategic direction, aligning activities with ACIAR’s broader objectives and inspiring team unity and purpose.
- Lead ACIAR’s strategic engagement with Australia’s agricultural innovation system to identify existing capacity and foster emerging capacity that can deliver the greatest impact.
- Manage expenditure effectively and efficiently to maximise the impact of ACIAR’s investment in research and capacity development, in line with Australian and partner country government requirements.
- Promote engagement across ACIAR’s key areas of research, partnerships and corporate functions, to facilitate a safe, inclusive and cooperative culture and a high-performing work environment.
- Demonstrate unwavering commitment and integrity, consistently uphold public service values, actively embrace and manage risks and exhibit personal courage. Be resolute in decision-making and exhibit resilience in the face of challenges in all aspects of your role.
Position contact: HR Support
Telephone: (02) 6217 0500.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Plant Protection & Environmental Biosecurity
Australian Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer Australian Plague Locust Commission
Field Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Longreach, QLD; Broken Hill, NSW; Narromine, NSW
Salary: $74,882 – $81,521
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 2024/472
Applications close: Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au
Duties: The position of a Field Officer has responsibility for the following:
- Being prepared to travel and undertake field work in rural and remote parts of Australia.
- Working alone under limited supervision and as part of a small team.
- Conducting ground and/or aerial surveys to assess locust distribution and abundance, assessing the habitat and collecting data.
- Participating in locust control campaigns including aerial and ground target search and assessment of control.
- Assisting in the operation and maintenance of field base and equipment.
- Developing and maintaining a network of relevant contacts in the rural community.
- Assisting scientific staff in research and development work as required: e.g. field testing of insecticides, locust ecology, environmental impact, etc.
- Assisting the Director and Operations Manager in any aspect of the commission’s activities as required.
Position contact: Heath McRae
Email: [email protected].
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Plant Protection & Environmental Biosecurity
Australian Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer Australian Plague Locust Commission
Field Officer – Affirmative Measures Indigenous
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Longreach, QLD; Broken Hill, NSW; Narromine, NSW
Salary: $74,882 – $81,521
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 2024/912
Applications close: Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au
Duties: The position of a Field Officer has responsibility for the following:
- Being prepared to travel and undertake field work in rural and remote parts of Australia.
- Working alone under limited supervision and as part of a small team.
- Conducting ground and/or aerial surveys to assess locust distribution and abundance, assessing the habitat and collecting data.
- Participating in locust control campaigns including aerial and ground target search and assessment of control.
- Assisting in the operation and maintenance of field base and equipment.
- Developing and maintaining a network of relevant contacts in the rural community.
- Assisting scientific staff in research and development work as required: e.g. field testing of insecticides, locust ecology, environmental impact, etc.
- Assisting the Director and Operations Manager in any aspect of the commission’s activities as required.
Position contact: Heath McRae
Email: [email protected].
Department of Defence
Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance
GWEO Delivery Division
Engineering Manager
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Penrith, NSW
Salary: $115,899 – $130,733
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: GWEO/02718/24
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Sunday, 19 May, 2024
Agency website: https://defencecareers.nga.net.au
Duties: Are you an experienced engineer with a passion for things that go bang? Are you looking for a meaningful engineering role to apply your skills? An opportunity exists to join our dynamic and vibrant Defence team as an EL1 Engineering Manager. If you are searching for new career opportunities with an agile, empowering, positive and open organisation, this role could be for you! You will spend your days:
- Investigating, analysing and reporting on engineering concepts and risks.
- Planning and delivering critical engineering activities.
- Providing advice to stakeholders.
- Mentoring junior members.
- Enabling good inventory decisions with quality and timely engineering advice.
Your ability to analyse and apply systems of work, government decision-making and Defence’s mission and policy requirements will be key to allowing you to deliver outcomes. We are currently recruiting for the following roles located in either Penrith (NSW) or Canberra (ACT): Two x EL1 Engineering Manager.
Position contact: LTCOL Thuy-An Vu
Telephone: (03) 8531 6699.
Sport Integrity Australia
Safety in Sport
Operations Anti-Doping Testing
SIA Anti-Doping Testing Casual Employment Register
Job type: Casual, Non-ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Hobart, TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW; Adelaide, SA
Classification: APS Level 1; APS Level 2; APS Level 3
Position number: Multiple
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 19 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.sportintegrity.gov.au
Job description: Sport Integrity Australia operates across Australia using a casual workforce of experienced Doping Control Officers (APS3), Blood Collection Officers (APS2) and Chaperones (APS1), collectively known as Sample Collection Staff.
Position contact: Adele Weekes
Email: [email protected].
Australian Fisheries Management Authority
Compliance Operations
Fisheries Operations Branch
APS 6 Senior Fisheries Officers
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing, Non-ongoing
Location: Darwin, NT
Salary: $97,004 – $107,269
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: Various
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Sunday, 19 May, 2024
Agency website: https://www.afma.gov.au/careers
Duties: AFMA is seeking suitably qualified or experienced individuals to fill the roles of Senior Fisheries Officers within AFMA’s Fisheries Operations Branch in our Darwin office.
The Senior Fisheries Officer assists the Managers of International Compliance Operations (ICO) and National Compliance Operations (NCO) to deliver services to combat domestic non-compliance and IUU fishing regionally and internationally, through:
- Undertaking compliance action within the international and domestic environment, including the ability to conduct an investigation that may involve domestic and/or foreign fishermen.
- Once qualified, ensuring that investigations are conducted in accordance with the Commonwealth Fraud Control Guidelines and the Australian Government Investigation Standards (AGIS).
- The ability to design, implement and deliver MCS capacity-building programs.
- The ability to obtain and provide MCS advice to other nations, and regional and international organisations.
- Proactively support AFMA’s International Compliance and Engagement Program, and the National Compliance and Enforcement Program.
Position contact: Brendan Rayner
Telephone: (08) 8943 0347.
