Aps5 - Policy Officer, Strategic Fleet

2 months ago

Canberra, Australia Australian Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development Full time

**Contact Officer**:
**Closing Date**:
**11.59pm AEDT, Friday 25 October 2024**

**Our Department Values**:
Our values set the direction for what it means to work in our department. They inform the standard and expectations of behaviours, skills and capabilities and the attributes we currently have, will continually work to achieve and develop, and that we use to acknowledge and attract, retain and recruit into our department.

**The opportunity we have available**:
The Strategic Fleet Program Team is responsible for implementing the Australian Government’s commitment to establishing a strategic fleet of 12 Australian flagged and crewed vessels. The vessels will be privately owned and commercially operated, and will be available to the Commonwealth to requisition in times of need, crisis or national emergency.
The strategic fleet will strengthen Australia’s supply chains, enable the movement of critical cargo during crises and emergencies, and provide employment and training opportunities to improve Australia’s maritime workforce capability.
The team’s functions include establishing and managing a Strategic Fleet Pilot Program (SFPP) Standing Offer Panel, which is seeking the first three strategic fleet vessels, and developing policy to implement recommendations from the Strategic Fleet Taskforce.

**What will you do?**:
The Strategic Fleet Program Team has multiple APS 5 Policy Officer positions available. As a Policy Officer, you will be responsible for contributing to the implementation of recommendations from the Taskforce. The work will be varied and dynamic, but will include:

- working in close collaboration with stakeholders to develop options and modelling for potential levies to support the ongoing sustainability of the strategic fleet
- developing legislative options to provide a regulatory power to requisition strategic fleet vessels
- supporting a Post Implementation Review of the Strategic Fleet Pilot Program
- developing of options to expand the strategic fleet to 12 vessels, based on outcomes of the Post Implementation Review
- engagement States and Territory governments, to ensure the strategic fleet is able to effectively respond to a wide variety of scenarios in their jurisdictions
- providing advice on the department’s linkages to whole of government initiatives that support national security outcomes
- drafting advice to inform Government decision making, including Cabinet submissions, ministerial briefs, and new policy proposals

**Who are we looking for?**:
Successful applicants will be committed to delivering high quality policy advice. You will have the ability to communicate with influence with a diverse range of stakeholders, and will be adaptive to changing priorities. You will work under limited direction and use your research and analysis skills to develop policy options for consideration by Senior Executives and the Government.

To be successful in this role, you will have the ability to:

- develop policy, including analysis, design and co-design
- build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- communicate with influence and produce high quality written work
- achieve results by managing competing deadlines and responding flexibly to changing priorities
- think strategically, evaluating complex information from a variety of sources

The following skills and experience are highly desirable:

- experience in legislative reform processes
- experience in developing Impact Analyses

**RecruitAbility minimum requirements**:
Minimum requirements for this role include:

- Ability to effectively coordinate work ensuring high quality and timely outcomes.
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills, including strong attention to detail.
- Ability to provide timely and concise advice to inform and support executive decision making.
- Ability to establish and maintain key strategic relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.

RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment.

Job applicants with disability who met the requirements are advanced to the next stage of the selection process:

- Opt into the scheme
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised in the scheme

More information can be found at RecruitAbility scheme: RecruitAbility scheme: A guide for applicants | Australian Public Service Commission (apsc.gov.au)

**What else can we offer?**:
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- Find your purpose.
- We provide the environment you need through excellent conditions and a supportive, values-driven culture, allowing you to keep being you.
- Our values are to be: respectful, informed, collaborative, adaptive, accountable. Through our commitment to these values, we maintain a fulfilling and supportive environment that promotes the wellbeing of our people.
- We offer job security, flexi

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