Stakeholder Engagement Officer

APS Level 6
- Newcastle, NSW; Adelaide, SA; Canberra, ACT
- $101,833 - $111,979

**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.

**About Jobs and Skills Australia**
Want to work for an organisation recognised and celebrated for our excellence in leadership, stewardship and innovation? Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) may be the place for you

As part of a motivated and dynamic organisation, we value being innovative, collaborative,?accurate, respectful, courageous, and making a difference.

We are an independent secondary statutory body, within the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations that provides advice and data to the Government on every aspect of the jobs and skills system, to help all Australians realise their full skills potential.
We do this by working with our stakeholders to advise on current vocational education and training, higher education, and migration systems to meet Australia’s future skills and workforce needs.

Our people include specialists in policy, data, economics, communications, stakeholder engagement, digital solutions and research who are located across Australia.

We offer a positive, productive and supportive work environment and are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where continuous learning and building skills and professional networks are a priority.

**The Role**
The Stakeholder Engagement team guides how JSA establishes, maintains and develops effective relationships with tripartite partners and other key stakeholders. The team coordinates and delivers engagement forums and strategic events and forge effective, impactful and sustainable balance across partnerships, engagements and outreach. The team are the secretariat for the Ministerial Advisory Board, providing structure and process to this central stakeholder mechanism.

Reporting to the Assistant Director, the APS6 Stakeholder Engagement Officer is responsible for facilitating strategic engagement activities which impact the broader Jobs and Skills Australia. You will enable and support the delivery of effective engagement that informs Jobs and Skills Australia advice. We aim to build a sophisticated and fit-for-purpose engagement approach that ensures the way we work with others is inclusive, effective, empowering, transparent and easy.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the APS Level 6 include:

- Develop and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders.
- Coordinate and deliver engagement and activities, including consultations, forums, and events.
- Draft communication materials such as briefs, reports, and stakeholder updates.
- Provide support for the stakeholder Customer Relationship Management System.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of engagement strategies and plans.
- Work collaboratively across the agency to ensure stakeholder insights inform policy and program development.
- Monitor and evaluate engagement outcomes to support continuous improvement.
- An ability to provide coordination support to committees, or a willingness to learn.

**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