Assistant Director, Key Sectors

1 week ago


Canberra, ACT, Australia ACT Government Full time

The Business and Innovation Branch (B&I) are looking for an individual who can help ACT Government drive economic development through a focus on the ACT's highly competitive industry sectors.

These are the sectors we see making a real contribution to Canberra's growth, particularly space, cyber and other advanced tech industries.


The successful applicant will join a friendly and high performing team able to deliver flexibly against longer term and emerging objectives.

Whilst you'll have no trouble engaging in technical detail, you'll be able to work with stakeholders at all levels to ensure you are focussing on the most important things, and communicating details succinctly to Ministers and Senior Executives.


We are keen to build our capability, and so relevant industry experience in space, cyber or allied sectors or close industry engagement in a public sector role would be a real plus.

We'll also want to see how you approach managing competing priorities, and how you show pride in delivering quality results.

B&I spans a broad work area which means you will be well-engaged during your time here. B&I aims to ensure we focus on our people to help individuals succeed, and deliver better business outcomes. We're a supportive branch with an active social program. We are firm supporters of providing learning and development opportunities aligned to your career development goals.

We are happy to flexible working arrangements should this suit you and us.

We hope this will help contribute to ensuring we build a wider range of skills and backgrounds into our branch structure.

The ACT Public Service supports workforce diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace.

As part of this commitment, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse people and those who identify as LGBTIQ+ are encouraged to apply.

Hear about CMTEDD from some of our staff.

How to Apply:

If the above role interests you, please provide a pitch of no more than two pages responding to the selection criteria in the job advertisement.


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Note:

This is a temporary position available until 30 June 2024 with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.

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