Assistant Director, Strategic Policy and Budget Strategy

Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT
- $125,220 - $138,394

**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 External Budgets, Strategy and Performance Branch supports and delivers strategic policy
thinking, budget priorities, corporate planning and performance. As trusted advisers we engage
across DEWR, the APS and our ministers to support government decision-making, maintaining
strategic awareness and developing positions on emerging and complex policy issues.

The Branch works collaboratively with central agencies, portfolio entities and internal and external
stakeholders on strategic policy, Budget and performance and accountability matters and plays a key
role in the provision of advice to our Ministers and the Executive. We do this be ensuring a
connected and portfolio-wide approach in our products, services and advice.

Assistant Directors work with broad remit to deliver on DEWR’s External Budgets functions, with
Budget Estimates and Budget Policy specialisations.

Reporting to the Director, the **Assistant Director - Budget Policy** will:

- Work closely with key internal and external stakeholders including central agencies, the Executive, and Ministerial advisers
- Formulate and provide strategic advice and support on budget matters including whole-of-government policy priorities and agenda-shaping
- Coordinate and support delivery of key budget publications including the Portfolio Budget
- Statements (PBS) and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES)
- Lead development of DEWR portfolio budget submissions
- Facilitate budget capability uplift across the team, branch and department.

This process may be used to fill multiple positions across the Branch, in addition to establishing a
merit pool to fill future vacancies.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the **Assistant Director - Budget Policy**may include:

- Providing effective briefing and policy advice on budget matters and whole-of-government policy priorities
- Maintaining strong relationships with internal stakeholders including the senior executive, Ministerial advisers, and policy and program areas
- Developing input and provide both strategic and technical advice on complex and sensitive matters including the budget process operational rules, commonwealth resource management framework, ministerial submissions and briefs
- Developing briefing, correspondence and Cabinet submissions relating to the budget process
- Supervising staff as required.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 750 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.