Assistant Director

16 hours ago

Canberra, Australia Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Full time

Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT; Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Hobart, TAS; Melbourne, VIC
- $115,996 - $128,200

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We enable access to quality skills, training and employment services to support Australians find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces - supporting individuals and our nation to prosper.

**The Role**
The Mutual Obligation and Compliance Policy team is in Targeted Employment Policy Branch. The Branch is responsible for developing employment and active labour market policies to increase employment outcomes for job seekers, particularly disadvantaged job seekers. The team is responsible for providing evidence-based policy advice and developing policy on job seekers’ requirements while receiving payments (mutual obligations). The team also provides support and advice across the Department.

A key policy focus of the team is advising on options to incentivise participation, while minimising unintended or unnecessary impacts on unemployment payment recipients.

The team’s work is often high profile and affects hundreds of thousands of people.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the Assistant Director may include:

- Developing policy advice relating to mutual obligations and job seeker compliance policy, including in the development of new policy proposals and/or Cabinet submissions.
- Developing talking points, briefings or responses to questions relating to mutual obligation requirements and compliance for the Government and the executive.
- Liaising with internal stakeholders (such as legal and program areas) and external stakeholders (such as Services Australia, Department of Social Services, National Indigenous Australians Agency).
- Advising on mutual obligation requirements and compliance and interactions with legislation.
- Research and developing a further evidence base relating to mutual obligation requirements and job seeker compliance policy.
- Supervising junior members of the team.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide up to a two-page summary (no more than 1000 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**

**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.

**Please refer to the Job Information Pack for more information about the role.**

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