El 1 - Assistant Director Security Operations

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, Australia Australian Government Full time

$111,441 - $125,705 (plus Super)
- Edinburgh - SA

**The Role**
The Assistant Director of Security Operations is a leadership position that manages and develops an integrated team of security professionals to provide highly specialised, targeted security advice and support for senior leadership, researchers and staff. The successful applicant will lead a regional security team across Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) sites in South Australia, Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.

Reporting to the Director of Security Operations, the Assistant Director of Security Operations will help shape positive security culture through providing expert advice, mentoring and leadership on protective security; including security risk management, physical security and personnel security. This advice will ensure DSTG’s security posture is fit for purpose across the region and effectively supports and protects Defence capability. An in-depth knowledge of and compliance with legislative frameworks, government decision-making and Defence’s mission and policy requirements will enable success in this role.

A strong background in security operations and policy, coupled with positive people management experience and a commitment to exhibiting and fostering Defence behaviours and values will be essential to the delivery of security operations support to DSTG.

The duties of the Assistant Director of Security Operations include (but are not limited to):

- Accountable for leading a team, managing allocated resources, setting work area priorities, managing workflows, developing strategies and evaluating business outcomes.
- Accountable for managing and leading a team, including providing clear and consistent communication, setting clear performance and behavioural standards, managing performance, delegating responsibility and guiding and developing people.
- Accountable for accurate completion of work within timeframes and quality requirements, share own expertise with others and guide and mentor less experienced employees.
- Lead and manage the provision of protective security advice to stakeholders to support the implementation of security policies, practices and procedures.
- Develop, implement and monitor the completion of assurance programs to ensure compliance with whole of Government and Defence security policies.
- Understand the Defence security risk context and provide advice on the emerging protective security matters.
- Explain complex to very complex strategies to raise security awareness to establish a positive security culture.
- Advocate productive and collaborative relationships with whole-of-Government stakeholders to achieve protective security objectives.
- Influence, mentor and guide team members to work collaboratively to achieve high quality outcomes.
- Consolidate and evaluate innovative solutions to support continuous improvement.
- Assess, evaluate and endorse protective security reports, submissions, assessments, briefings and discussion papers.
- Influence protective security outcomes through tailoring communication style and language according to the audience's level of knowledge, skill and experience.

**About our Team**
The Security Operations Team comprises of two regional teams; Region 1 - Northern, Central and West Zones, manages DSTG sites in South Australia, Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Region 2: East and South East Zones, manages DSTG sites in Victoria, Tasmania New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Our team comprises of both APS and contracted security professionals who work collaboratively to advise and support the DSTG workforce. Our team ensures that DSTG implements and maintains robust protective security practices and embraces a positive security culture.

To ensure integrated and efficient outcomes, the Security Operations Team work closely with DSTG Infrastructure, Safety, Business Capability, Scientific Computing and Trials Authority teams.

Research Technology and Operations Division (RTO) delivers specialist capabilities to the Defence Innovation Science and Technology (IS&T) eco system. RTO comprises a professional workforce of engineers, technicians, computational scientists and administrative staff who provide a wide range of highly specialised and unique research capability and innovative solutions delivering advanced research platforms for defence, national security and the wider IS&T ecosystem.

RTO capabilities accelerate and protect Defences science and technology advances and promote a collaborative, compliant, safe and healthy workplace.

RTOs work areas include:

- Emerging digital science capabilities, including computational and data intensive science, research data and information and laboratory and experimental systems.
- Scientific computing including the development and acquisition of a world-class secure High Performance Computing (HPC) capability for advance modelling and simulation.
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