Policy Officer

4 weeks ago

Brisbane, Australia Energy and Public Works Full time

Your roleThe REZ team, REZ and Transformation branch within the Department of Energy and Climate will contribute to the Queensland Government's commitment to providing cheaper, cleaner energy that will power more jobs and industries in Queensland.
As a key member of the team, your high-level advice and leadership will be part of achieving Queensland's 50% renewable energy target for 2030, the development of the hydrogen sector including domestic use and export, growing local manufacturing jobs, establishing Queensland renewable energy zones and developing the whole value chain in Queensland for renewable energy. Your contribution will form part of Queensland's 10-year energy plan. The energy plan will create certainty for Queensland businesses and households, and certainty for a cleaner energy future.
**Your responsibilitiesAs the Policy Officer, you will**: - Research, analyse and advise on complex policy and regulatory issues relating to the energy sector. Prepare, as directed, comprehensive, accurate and timely deliverables, such as briefing notes, submissions, presentations, speeches, publications, reports and correspondence. Liaise, consult and negotiate with other State Government and Commonwealth agencies, Government-owned corporations, market and regulatory entities, energy customers and representative bodies. Support the effective delivery of projects through scoping and planning, establishing governance arrangements, managing allocated resources and developing methodologies for future work programs. Exercise judgement to effectively manage competing priorities while working collaboratively with colleagues, or individually, to deliver workloads on time and which meet customer's expectations. Contribute to a positive and effective team culture by participating in work area goal-setting, service improvement and other Unit/Divisional activities. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders both internal and external to Government. Other tasks as directed.
About youWe recognise and celebrate that everyone is unique and we are looking to find the eligible person best suited to the role.In deciding who is best suited to this role, we may consider: - the skills, experience, qualifications, knowledge and behaviours/personal qualities that you would bring to the role
- your potential to make a future contribution to the department (including the extent to which you have the potential for development)
- how you may contribute to the department's workforce diversity objectives.
To thrive in this role, you will need to demonstrate the following: - Analyses issues in a critical and insightful manner, adapts to change requirements and develops prompt, considered responses. Provides timely information and advice, tailors messages to stakeholder needs and considers a diversity of perspectives to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Works with the team and stakeholders to develop shared objectives, recognises their own role in achieving results and shows persistence in the face of challenges. Analyses information to proactively identify risks to the team's planned activities, evaluations possible solutions and takes appropriate steps to mitigate risks. In addition, this role requires the leadership capabilities of an Individual Contributor as outlined in the Leadership competencies for Queensland booklet.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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