Fraud Officers, Aps 6 and Aps 5, Fraud Prevention

**Job no**: 512673

**Employment type**: Ongoing

**Location**: Canberra

**Categories**: APS Level 5, APS Level 6, Administration, Evaluation, Audit

**About the department**:
The department plays a key role in the Australian Government’s agenda to create jobs and build a stronger, more resilient and competitive economy. Our work builds on Australia’s existing strengths, supports businesses to grow, and drives new opportunities for long-term productivity growth and prosperity. The success of the department helps Australia recover from the economic consequences of COVID‑19 and adapt to its ongoing effects. Through our work, we support the government’s economic recovery plan and help to deliver a better future for all Australians.

**About the Team**

The Fraud Control Team is located within the Ministerial and Executive Enabling Branch, Strategic Policy Division. The Fraud Control Team is responsible for preventing, detecting, and investigating internal and external fraud related to the department. The team is a small but cohesive unit of qualified and highly skilled officers who are passionate about what they do.

The Ministerial and Executive Enabling Branch provides a range of support and assistance to the Executive and our Ministers. This includes the planning and reporting framework required under relevant legislation, parliamentary and Cabinet support, governance support, internal audit, enterprise risk management and fraud and corruption control.

**What’s in it for you?**

You will have an important role within the department. You will engage with stakeholders across the department to drive organisational fraud and corruption prevention, including outreach, communication and awareness raising. You will engage with a broad range of stakeholders within the department and build relationships across department and the APS, particularly in communities of practice, working groups and taskforces.

You will have:

- experience engaging with stakeholders, and building/maintaining stakeholder relationships
- a proven ability to deliver accurate and timely outcomes in a busy environment
- demonstrated ability undertake work with a moderate level of complexity and sensitivity under limited guidance
- sound knowledge of and compliance with the Commonwealth Fraud Control Framework 2017
- skill to lead and foster a respectful and positive workforce culture.
- a good working knowledge of, relevant policies and frameworks, including the Commonwealth Fraud Control Framework
- stakeholder management experience
- fraud control, detection and/or investigation experience
- excellent verbal and written skills
- demonstrated experience managing competing priorities while maintaining high work standards
- experience in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- be proactive, and have a positive attitude towards continuous improvement and work collaboratively in a small team
- demonstrated sound judgement and integrity.

**What you will do**:
The **APS Level 5 Fraud Administration Officer** provides administrative support to the Fraud Control Section and assists the Fraud Prevention Officer in the fraud prevention work program.

You will:

- contribute to the development of plans, strategies, and team goals
- assist with planning and roll-out of fraud awareness training and education materials
- assist with facilitating the completion of fraud risk assessments
- build collaborative relationships with stakeholders to support the management of fraud risks
- provide administrative support to the Fraud Control Section through monitoring of the positional mailbox, arranging of meetings, drafting of correspondence, etc
- triage incoming requests for assistance
- contribute to the development of a cohesive and supportive team environment and work collaboratively as an effective team member.

The **APS Level 6 Fraud Prevention Officer** supports the Fraud Prevention Manager to deliver the fraud prevention work program.

You will:

- facilitate the completion of fraud risk assessments
- build collaborative relationships with stakeholders to support the management of fraud risks
- assist stakeholders with identification of fraud risks and maintain the Fraud Risk Register
- promote consistency in fraud risk management practices through the provision of training, advice and support to divisions responsible for specialist areas of departmental fraud risks, and high fraud risk divisions
- develop and implement fraud risk management and fraud control policies and procedures
- assist with development and updates to the department’s fraud control plan

The **APS Level 6 Fraud Detection & Intelligence Officer **supports the Fraud Response Manager with the assessment of fraud allegations, producing intelligence assessments, providing fraud control advice, and identifying fraud risks through intelligence and detection projects.

You will:

- produce quality Intelligence Assessments and provide intelligence supp