Policy, Program, and Regulatory Officers

2 months ago


Greater Adelaide SA, Australia Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Full time

APS 5 - $81,690 - $89,615 per annum plus superannuation
- Exports & Veterinary Services Division
- Adelaide, SA,Brisbane, QLD,Canberra, ACT,Melbourne, VIC,Perth, WA,Sydney, NSW
- Why YOU are important to us and what impact will you have on Exports and Veterinary Services Division & the department’s goal._

Australia exports over $35 billion worth of animal products annually to more than 100 countries. This includes some of Australia’s best **meat, dairy, seafood, eggs, and non-prescribed goods**. In this role, you’ll directly contribute to supporting our valuable agricultural export industries, regional communities and farmers, and Australia’s economic growth.

Our Exports and Veterinary Services Division ensures Australian agricultural products meet global standards while helping to maintain and expand global market access for our exporters and farmers. We regulate, test, inspect, and certify exports for compliance with Australian and importing country requirements while negotiating and engaging with our trading partners.

This is where you play an important role. You’ll be key in maintaining, expanding, and improving our national agricultural production and certification services, ensuring high standards across the supply chain, ensuring global consumers and trading partners of the premium and safe nature of Australian agricultural goods.

Whether it’s directly negotiating with trading partners, regulating our exporters and export production facilities, intervening to resolve detained trade, providing scientific and regulatory policy advice, facilitating licensing and certification, coordinating international audits, or overseeing our National Residue Survey. These are just some of the dozens of roles within the Exports and Veterinary Services Division that are critically important and need people like you to ensure Australian farmers and exporters of animal products can continue to get their products into global markets.

**Please note **that the merit pool established through this selection process, which is valid for a period of eighteen months from the date the vacancy was advertised in the Public Service Gazette, may also be used to fill future ongoing vacancies in the branch where the duties are of a similar nature.

**What You Can Do With Us**:
Negotiation and Market Access: Engage with global trading partners directly and at international forums to negotiate market access arrangements and standards to Australia’s advantage.

Stakeholder Engagement: Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders at the industry, peak body, state/territory government, and international level to support policy and operational goals.

Research & Analysis: Conduct research and data analysis to inform policy decisions, regulatory reform, and support evidence-based regulatory decision making.

Administration & Coordination: Provide administrative and secretariat support for projects and key meetings, ensuring to keep operations and stakeholder engagement on track.

Document Preparation: Create and review essential documents, including briefs, reports, presentations and instructional material to support decision-making and policy implementation.

Project Support: Assist in delivering key projects, ensuring they align with our regulatory and operational objectives.

**What we are looking for**
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in a corporate or government role
- Experience in researching and analysing data to make decisions and recommendations
- Builds good relationships and consults effectively with others
- Can work independently or as part of a team to meet deadlines
- Initiative and has a desire for self-development and learning
- Strong attention to detail and organisation skills
- Experience in managing and prioritising multiple duties to deliver work under tight timeframes.

The following experience is highly desirable for the role:

- Experience in the public service supporting policy and regulation, or in a program administration role.
- An understanding or qualifications and experience related to government policy, regulation, food safety, or animal production systems.


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