Director, State Office- Queensland

3 weeks ago

Brisbane, Australia Australian Electoral Commission Full time

**Agency Purpose**

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is an independent statutory authority established by the Australian Government to maintain an impartial and independent electoral system for eligible voters through active electoral roll management, efficient delivery of polling services, and targeted education and public awareness programs.

**The AEC’s values and commitments**

The AEC values and commitments are an essential component of our operating environment and frame how AEC staff work. The AEC's focus is on electoral integrity through the values of quality, agility and professionalism.

**The Team**

The Director State Office leads, manages and directs critical projects that drive election readiness and delivers human, financial and administrative resources for the State of Queensland, ensuring alignment with the AEC’s established business planning process and the Corporate Plan. The role has oversight of election readiness functions for Queensland, ensuring a state of preparedness in line with the AEC election readiness framework and the Election Ready Road Map (ERRM).

**The Oppotunity**

The role is responsible for undertaking work with a high level of complexity and sensitivity, utilising specialist, professional and technical knowledge and significant judgment to ensure the delivery of effective and compliant corporate, compliance and planning functions for Queensland. In addition, the role works closely with the Australian Electoral Officer to contribute to Queensland and agency wide strategic planning.

The Director State Office is also responsible for the Planning Coordination and Assurance Team (PCA). The PCA team is responsible for several significant election related projects as well as business as usual activities such as roll management.

To excel you’ll have:

- Demonstrated ability to lead, develop and manage staff while developing a positive culture across a dispersed network.
- Proven ability to communicate with influence, negotiate strategic outcomes and manage strategic stakeholder relationships.
- Proven strategic conceptual and analytical abilities with sound knowledge of change management practices and techniques to enable innovation.
- Demonstrated personal drive and integrity whilst achieving results within legislative and budget parameters.
- Proven ability to lead the effective management of financial operations ensuring alignment with organisational frameworks and compliance with financial regulations and standards, including experience managing large scale project or event budgets.

Desirable
- Relevant qualifications in project management, business, public administration or similar.
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment with the ability to quickly gain knowledge of Australian electoral law, processes and practices, parliamentary systems and Commonwealth frameworks.

**Eligibility**
- AEC employees must be Australian citizens.
- Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs, and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.
- Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.
- Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the Baseline clearance required for this role.
- Applicants may be required to undertake psychometric testing as part of this recruitment process.

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