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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)
Networks and Telecommunications Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Kingston, TAS
Salary: $95,438 to $108,360
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 2025/2430
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Friday, 19 September
Agency website: https://www.dcceew.gov.au
The role: The main duties of the Telecommunications Officer include, but are not limited to:
- Providing telecommunications support services, including advice on issues associated with data and voice communications across a network utilising radio and satellite communications technology.
- Managing the business-as-usual requirements for radio and satellite systems so they remain current and provide the best value for money through established change-and-release management processes and Capital upgrade projects.
- Performing regular system testing or monitoring of radio and satellite communications equipment, such as antennas, radios, repeaters, radars, tracking and GPS devices, including all satellite equipment.
- Consulting with stakeholders, developing project plans to meet the needs of remote area communications for the department and supporting those systems in accordance with these plans.
- Participating in the development and delivery of training in the maintenance of radio and satellite systems to local administrators, and developing and maintaining system management procedures, troubleshooting articles and associated documentation.
- Working, as part of a team, with our providers to ensure they maintain system support and monitoring associated service levels.
- Leading and contributing to projects to support the achievement of strategic and operational objectives.
Position contact: Alexander Bowyer
Telephone: 0400 303 109.
Australian Sports Commission
Temporary Register
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Classification: APS Level 1, APS Level 2, APS Level 3, APS Level 4, APS Level 5
Position number: N/A
Applications close: Saturday, 20 September
Agency website: https://www.ausport.gov.au
The opportunity: If you are interested in starting your career at the Australian Sports Commission and would like to be considered for upcoming fixed-term or casual opportunities, review the information below and register your interest by applying for the temporary register today.
Who are we?
We are the Australian Government agency responsible for supporting and investing in sport at all levels. Our role is to increase involvement in sport and enable continued international sporting success through leadership and development of a cohesive and effective sports sector, targeted financial support and the operation of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS).
The Australian Sports Commission is embarking on the Green and Gold Decade. This exciting time is filled with international sporting competitions on home soil, culminating in the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We have an ambitious new strategic vision and need the best players on our team to help us deliver real results for the sporting sector and all Australians.
Are you up for the challenge?
Contact email: [email protected]
Austrade
Media and Employee Communications Adviser
Job type: Full-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra; ACT; Melbourne, VIC, Sydney, NSW
Salary: $101,322 to $110,006
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 5880_08/25
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 21 September
Agency website: https://www.austrade.gov.au
The opportunity: Austrade is seeking a communications adviser to join its busy Media and Employee Communications Team. The team manages media and internal communications for the agency, and produces speeches for Austrade’s CEO, deputy CEOs and the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment.
Media advisers play a pivotal role in protecting the reputation of Austrade and developing and distributing positive stories of Australian exporters and foreign investment in Australian communities in external media channels.
The team works closely with Austrade’s subject matter experts, including its international network and global engagement managers, to identify and develop stories of successful Australian exporters, as well as managing media queries and issues.
The successful candidate will have a demonstrated flair for identifying media angles related to trade and investment outcomes, thorough research and interviewing skills, high-level writing capability and spades of initiative.
The candidate will also assist with employee communications, a crucial part of Austrade’s work, and informing and connecting with Austrade staff.
The ability to work under time pressure is crucial.
We value team players with enthusiasm and creativity who have a genuine interest in sharing great trade and investment outcomes for Australia.
Position contact: Jessica Wright
Telephone: 0406 587 919.
Department of Defence
Research Infrastructure & Science Operations (RISO) Project Officers
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Edinburgh, SA; Fishermans Bend, VIC
Salary: $86,887 to $93,066
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: DSTG/06918/25
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Sunday, 21 September
Agency website: https://www.defence.gov.au
The opportunity: The Research Technology and Operations Division (RTO) has exciting opportunities for multiple roles in its Research Infrastructure and Science Operations (RISO) teams, both at Fishermans Bend (VIC) and Edinburgh (SA). We have one immediate vacancy in DSTG Edinburgh, with multiple opportunities expected to become available soon across both sites to be filled from a merit pool. The RISO Directorate is responsible for the strategic planning, implementation and sustainment of highly specialised physical research infrastructure for Defence.
The team provides corporate-level services related to physical research infrastructure and science operations via small teams working in site-agnostic service hubs. Candidates should possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a capacity for multitasking and problem-solving, and a demonstrated ability to develop and foster productive working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders. Additionally, candidates should have experience working in a team in an agile and dynamic environment and an understanding of facilities management, estate and infrastructure planning, and the delivery of services facilitating research operations.
Position contact: Kodie Keed
Telephone: 0407 972 771.
Services Australia
Aurora Neuroinclusion Program – Affirmative Measures (Disability – autism spectrum disorder/condition or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder)
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Hobart, TAS
Salary: $68,830 to $92,324
Classification: APS Level 3, APS Level 4, APS Level 5
Position number: Aurora Neuroinclusion Program
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 21 September
Agency website: https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au
The role: There will be several rounds of recruitment into the Aurora Neuroinclusion Program in 2025 and these will be run separately.
This round is for positions in Hobart, Tasmania.
Available roles:
- Service Officer (APS3)
- Intelligence Officer (APS4)
- Data Analyst (APS5).
Contact: Employ for Ability
Contact email: [email protected].
Australian Government Solicitor
Senior Lawyer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Classification: Executive Level 1, Executive Level 2
Position number: TBC
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 21 September
Agency website: https://www.ags.gov.au
The role: Opportunities exist for Senior Lawyers to join our Dispute Resolution practice group in the Security & Enforcement team. We are seeking lawyers who are interested in complex and sensitive public law litigation. In these roles, part of your practice will be to work closely with security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies on national security and law enforcement-related matters.
The AGS Dispute Resolution practice (DR) is Australia’s pre-eminent public law litigation practice. It has unrivalled experience and specialist expertise in providing dispute-related legal advice and representation in every jurisdiction in Australia, across a diverse range of legal matters for Commonwealth agencies, including a significant practice representing the Commonwealth’s regulatory enforcement agencies, administrative law, tax litigation, employment law, torts law and information access law.
AGS acts for the Commonwealth in the full range of disputes to which it is a party or in which it has an interest (including access to sensitive information), and advises on investigations, including for law enforcement and national security agencies. DR also represents the Commonwealth before inquests, inquiries and royal commissions, and as the solicitor assisting royal commissions. An important part of these roles is advising on law enforcement and national security issues.
Position contact: Jill Mackay
Telephone: (02) 9581 7568.
Department of Home Affairs
Executive Assistant, Multiple Vacancies
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Various locations: ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Salary: $84,228 to $91,809
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 139736
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Sunday, 21 September
Agency website: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au
Key duties: As an Executive Assistant supporting a First Assistant Secretary’s office or Assistant Commissioner’s office, you will play a pivotal role in the day-to-day operations of the office. You will work as part of a small team and operate with limited supervision with sound judgment, confidence and the ability to think strategically.
Your duties will include, but will not be limited to:
- Monitoring and tracking incoming documents to ensure correspondence is triaged and actioned accordingly.
- Providing quality assurance (including proofreading, editing and drafting) of documents such as briefs, minutes and other advice in accordance with departmental guidelines.
- Arranging and coordinating meetings with internal and external stakeholders and coordinating venue bookings, audiovisual equipment and other meeting resources as required.
- Undertaking diary management, including prioritising time and drawing attention to matters of importance.
- Coordinating and providing administrative support, including printing and collating documents and other briefing material, in a timely manner.
- Coordinating travel arrangements, accommodation and supporting documentation, including acquitting corporate travel cards.
- Liaising with stakeholders and assisting with the resolution of moderately complex to complex policy, project or operational issues, responding to their needs and expectations as required.
- Encouraging the building and maintaining of relationships within the EA network.
- Contributing to a healthy and safe working environment, modelling ethical behaviour and practices consistent with the APS Code of Conduct and APS Values.
Position contact: Alyssa Broomby
Telephone: 0429 414 673.
Department of Defence
Formation Safety Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Keswick, SA
Salary: $86,887 to $93,066
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: ARMY/06967/25
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Sunday, 21 September
Agency website: https://www.defence.gov.au
The role: Headquarters 9th Brigade is seeking an APS 5 Formation Safety Officer to provide specialist administrative support and advice as part of the army’s Work Health and Safety (WHS) Management System. The position is responsible for providing WHS support and advice to the Brigade Command Group and Direct Command Units in their day-to-day management of health and safety performance and outcomes.
Your knowledge and experience of WHS will assist with the generation of reports and time-sensitive data analysis that will inform decision-making for 9th Brigade and help the army in a wider sense in meeting its due diligence obligations under the WHS Act 2011. The role is ideally a WHS-qualified person who reports to a MAJ/O5-level Executive Officer at the headquarters.
You will use your knowledge and experience of WHS and safety management to develop and sustain WHS policy and compliance frameworks that directly support the army’s force preservation and assurance, which strive to keep personnel safe. You will also contribute to the maintenance of internal WHS governance arrangements for 9th Brigade and occasionally work closely with other staff functions within the headquarters to facilitate a ‘’compliance culture’’. Given the continual requirement for collaboration on sensitive issues and WHS incident management, this means that the work pattern is office-based at the headquarters of 9th Brigade at Keswick Barracks, South Australia.
Working remotely from time to time can be facilitated, but must be negotiated based on applicable tasking and work deadlines that require collaborative products to be delivered. Working remotely is not to be considered the ‘’norm’’ for this role.
The successful applicant requires a sound knowledge of the WHS Act 2011 and the associated regulations. Experience working with relevant WHS codes of practice is desirable. A working knowledge of incident reporting, safety investigations and notification requirements to regulators such as Comcare is also desirable. A knowledge of, or qualification in, hazardous chemicals and substances is also desirable (but not essential).
Position contact: Brendon Sammut
Telephone: (08) 7008 4612.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand
General Manager, Enablement, Preparedness and Productivity
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Majura, ACT
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
Position number: 1001
Security clearance: Negative Vetting Level 1
Applications close: Sunday, 21 September
Agency website: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au
The role: Key duties include:
- Lead transformational change to align corporate functions with FSANZ’s future-focused strategy and new legislative framework.
- Champion a culture of excellence, inclusion, and continuous improvement across the agency.
- Drive digital enablement and workforce capability to support innovation and productivity.
- Collaborate with the CEO and executive team to shape organisational strategy and ensure alignment across all corporate services.
- Translate strategic goals into operational plans and performance metrics that drive agency-wide success.
- Ensure robust governance, compliance, and risk management across all corporate functions.
- Inspire and empower multidisciplinary teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration and future-readiness.
Position contact: Amanda O’Rourke
Telephone: 0452 199 031.
National Disability Insurance Agency
Deputy Chief Counsel
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Darwin, NT; Hobart, TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Perth, WA; Sydney, NSW
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
Position number: TBC
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Sunday, 21 September
Agency website: https://www.ndis.gov.au
Key duties: What we’re looking for in our ideal candidate:
- Exceptional legal and/or legal policy professionals who are adept at giving strategic legal counsel in complex operating environments and prosecuting legal and legal policy solutions that respond to and enable agency priorities.
- Deep senior leadership experience (and excellent people skills) to set work programs, drive priorities and outcomes, and lead and get the best from a diverse, nationally dispersed team.
- A track record of great relationship building and collaboration, with proven capability to sustain trust and leverage effective relationships.
- A strategic focus and the ability to set and explain strategic direction for the team to deliver outcomes against accountabilities.
- The ability to navigate complexity, drive and resilience in dynamic and personally challenging environments.
- A customer-centric mindset, an understanding of the business needs of agency partners, and the ability to work closely with them to address their needs.
- Someone who is fully accountable for all aspects of their executive function, including strategic planning, budgeting, performance management, performance monitoring, evaluation and reporting, and supporting divisional accountability.
- Curiosity and preparedness to learn and innovate, question the status quo and develop a culture of continuous improvement.
- A leader who promotes respectful behaviour and integrity, is self-aware and leads a respectful, supportive and enjoyable culture and team.
Position contact: Lionel Riley
Telephone: (02) 6126 4500.
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
AE4 Vetting Administrator, Vetting Authority
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $88,512 to $94,964
Classification: APS Level 4
Position number: 01420252026
Security clearance: TOP SECRET-Privileged Access
Applications close: Monday, 22 September
Agency website: https://www.asio.gov.au/careers
The opportunity: The newly established TOP SECRET-Privileged Access (TS-PA) Vetting Authority will centralise Australia’s highest-level security clearance functions within ASIO over the coming years. Successful applicants will play an instrumental role in building this new capability, which was established at the forefront of efforts to protect Australia from the threat of espionage and foreign interference.
This is an exciting time to join this new area as we scale our vetting capability with multiple new AE4 Vetting Administrator (APS4 equivalent) positions.
We are looking for people from diverse backgrounds and cultures, bringing transferable skills from professions such as (though not limited to):
- HR and procurement
- Defence/government/policy
- Psychology and counselling
- Office management or business administration
- Consulting or contracting.
A merit pool may be created to fill future vacancies that have the same or similar requirements to this position. This merit pool will be valid for up to 18 months.
Contact: ASIO Recruitment
Telephone: (02) 6263 7888.
National Indigenous Australians Agency
Lawyer/Senior Lawyer, Integrity Group
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Woden, ACT
Salary: $98,314 to $143,993
Classification: APS Level 6, Executive Level 1
Position number: NIAA/2025/118
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Monday, 22 September
Agency website: https://www.niaa.gov.au
Key duties: Our ideal candidate possesses legal qualifications and eligibility to hold a government-restricted Australian legal practising certificate. As a Legal/Senior Legal Officer, you must be able to demonstrate some or all of the following:
- Capacity to attain cultural competency, including the ability to understand issues affecting, and to communicate effectively with, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Strong technical legal and analytical skills, excellent communication and collaboration skills, and experience in providing high-quality legal services on government legal issues.
- Ability to assist with the supervision and development of less-experienced team members to cultivate and promote the legal practice, and to maintain professional skills.
- Strong communication skills, collaboration skills and a solutions-focused approach to legal services.
- Ability to undertake legal research and provide accurate, clear and concise plain-English advice.
- Success in building and maintaining professional relationships, and consulting with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to respond quickly and flexibly while managing competing priorities.
- Ability to work under the general direction of senior staff while exercising a degree of independent judgment.
Position contact: Stephen Quinn
Telephone: (02) 6152 3559.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Team Leader – Affirmative Measure
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Thursday Island, QLD
Salary: $84,794 to $93,020
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 2025/2945
Applications close: Monday, 22 September
Agency website: https://www.agriculture.gov.au
The opportunity: The Biosecurity Plant and Science Services Division (BPSSD) safeguards Australia’s plant health status to achieve, maintain and expand overseas markets while protecting the economy and environment. The division provides diagnostics, with advice on biosecurity risk and measures, and biosecurity training. The division conducts surveillance and response at first points of entry and approved arrangement sites nationally and delivers plant, animal and aquatic health surveillance in northern Australia. The division works closely with communities and Indigenous rangers and regulates biosecurity risk in the Torres Strait.
Eligibility: The successful applicants will have:
- Knowledge of the locations and environment in which the Northern Australian Quarantine Strategy operates, and the provisions of the Torres Strait Treaty.
- Experience in, or a capacity to deliver and supervise, biosecurity inspection services in accordance with applicable legislative and administrative requirements.
- Demonstrated understanding of culture and issues facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- Sound understanding of WHS issues.
- Demonstrated understanding of the APS Values, Code of Conduct, and governance requirements and practices.
Position contact: Nancy Mosby-Kirk
Telephone: 0472 823 873.
Australian Submarine Agency
Assistant Director (Multiple Positions)
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Canberra, ACT; Rockingham, WA
Salary: $120,303 to $135,701
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: ASA/07144/25
Security clearance: Positive Vetting
Applications close: Monday, 22 September
Agency website: https://www.defence.gov.au/about/taskforces/aukus
The roles: The acquisition of conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines is a historic and transformative endeavour for Australia. The whole-of-nation effort to safely and securely deliver the cutting-edge nuclear-powered submarine program will transform Australia’s economic and national security landscape for decades to come.
The Threats and Workforce Protection (TWP) Branch in the Stewardship and Security Division of the Australian Submarine Agency (ASA) supports the delivery of a safe and secure nuclear-powered submarine capability by understanding and communicating threats to the NPS Program, uplifting security culture and awareness across ASA and NPS enterprise workforces and mitigating personnel security risks through effective early detection, intervention and organisational suitability assessment processes.
We are seeking highly motivated individuals to fill the multiple EL 1 – Assistant Director positions in the Threats and Workforce Protection Branch in the Stewardship and Security Division of ASA.
In these positions, you will exercise a considerable degree of independence and perform a leadership role, build strong relationships with stakeholders across the NPS Enterprise and work productively and collegiately in a multidisciplinary environment, manage competing and time-critical protective security priorities, and provide detailed and sound strategic guidance to various stakeholders about complex protective security matters. Your work will promote and support the strategic objectives of the ASA.
Contact email: [email protected].
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Energy Regulator
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 3
Position number: EA2025/147
Applications close: Monday, 22 September
Agency website: https://www.accc.gov.au
The role: Key accountabilities and responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership and direction, including supporting the development and execution of the AER’s Strategic Plan (2026–2030) and Corporate Plan, embedding a culture of performance, accountability, and innovation across the agency.
- Develop and manage the AER’s annual budget, ensuring activities are conducted within approved parameters and aligned with the strategic priorities.
- Lead and empower the senior leadership team, assigning responsibilities clearly, supervising performance and fostering a high-performing, values-driven culture.
- Maintain regular contact with the chair, ensuring timely communication of developments that might require board-level action.
- Oversee strategic and operational planning, identifying objectives and strategies required to achieve the AER’s approved strategic plan.
- Recommend significant operational changes to the board as required, ensuring responsiveness to emerging challenges and opportunities.
- Ensure the board is provided with accurate, timely and clear information and materials, enabling effective governance and decision-making.
- Implement board-approved policies, processes and codes, ensuring alignment with broader APS governance frameworks.
- Instil and reinforce the AER’s purpose and values, promoting ethical and responsible behaviour, innovation, and excellence.
- Represent the AER externally, providing a strong, credible presence in engagements with senior government officials, regulators, industry leaders, and consumer groups. Model exemplary standards of behaviour, stewarding the agency and articulating the organisation’s culture, thereby fostering a positive internal climate.
- Attract, engage and retain high-performing employees, creating and sustaining a culture and workplace that support them to thrive and deliver productive outcomes for the AER.
Position contact: Andrew McEncroe from Derwent
Email: [email protected].
