Assistant Director, Corporate Governance

Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT
- $120,636 - $133,328

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.

**The Role**
The Corporate Governance Team undertakes a variety of governance and corporate functions to support Executives and business groups to implement cross-agency initiatives. The team contributes to support governance frameworks, building relationships and working collaboratively with a range of Commonwealth agencies, portfolio entities and other key internal and external stakeholders. Key responsibilities fall under 4 focused areas:

- Oversight of the department’s governance framework, including Executive Board.
- Oversight of the department’s Internal Policy Framework.
- Oversight of external relationships including management of senior governance committees.
- Oversight of the department’s enterprise project management and governance.

Reporting to the Director, Corporate Governance, the Assistant Director is responsible for leading the following key tasks and functions:

- Oversight of external relationships including strategic coordination of the department’s intergovernmental governance committees:

- Bilateral Management Committee with Services Australia
- Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) Governance Committee with the Department of Education
- Coordination and management of the DEWR to Education MoU requirements.
- Coordination and management of the Statement of Intent and supporting Protocols.
- Supervise APS-level staff.
- Other tasks as directed.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the Executive Level 1 may include:

- Providing direction regarding the purpose and importance of internal and external governance work. Illustrating the relationship between operational tasks and organisational goals and setting tasks that align with the strategic objectives and expected outcomes.
- Building and sustaining relationships with a network of key people internally and externally. Proactively offering assistance for a mutually beneficial relationship, and anticipating and being responsive to client needs.
- Involving people, encouraging them and recognising their contribution. Consulting and sharing information and ensuring others are kept informed of issues. Working collaboratively and operating as an effective team member.
- Establishing clear plans and timeframes for achieving governance and secretariat deliverables and outlining specific activities that need to occur. Responding in a positive and flexible manner to change and uncertainty. Sharing information and assists others to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Undertaking objective, systematic analysis and drawing accurate conclusions based on evidence. Recognising the links between interconnected issues and breaking through problems to identify solutions, including exploring possibilities and innovative alternatives.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 500 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.