Principal Policy Officer

2 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Communities, Housing and Digital Economy Full time

**As the Principal Policy Officer you will**:

- Effectively manage the Policy and Governance Team workload in a high volume, time-pressured environment, ensuring provision of quality, timely, informed, and strategic advice.
- Review and prepare ministerial and executive correspondence, Cabinet and Parliament material, briefing notes, and external and internal reports.
- Provide a point of expertise for policy and process within Smart Service including Cabinet processes and contributing to whole-of-government policy.
- Review and provide advice on departmental and whole-of-government priorities and have awareness of cross-jurisdictional issues and their potential impact.
- Review Discussion Papers and Cabinet submissions and contribute to a consolidated CHDE view and response, including through preparation of Cabinet briefing material for the Minister.
- Support the Manager to coordinate implementation of Smart Service's Information Security Management System (ISMS), risk management, and to meet privacy and record management obligations.
- Support the Manager to develop and document strategic directions, operational planning and coordinate disaster season and business continuity planning and activation.
- Represent Smart Service at interagency and external meetings and forums.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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