Aps Level 6

**Job Reference Number **22-MRDIV-15238
**Classification **APS Level 6
**Job Title **Advisory and Secretariat Officer
**Division **Medicines Regulation Division
**Branch **Prescription Medicines Authorisation Branch
**Section **Business Systems Review and Reporting Section
**Location **Fairbairn ACT
**Status **Ongoing
**Employment type **Full-time
**Salary Range **$88,439 to $99,772 per annum
**Desirable Qualifications **Medical and/or scientific knowledge to a professional standard
**Contact Officer Name**:Garry MacGregor
**Phone**:0418 205 547

**Eligibility**
To be eligible for employment with the Department of Health and Aged Care

applicants must be an Australian citizen at the time an offer of employment is made

An applicant’s suitability for employment with Health will also be assessed through a
variety of pre-employment check processes, such as:
Satisfactory completion of an Australian Federal Police criminal history check,

and where relevant a Working with Children and Vulnerable People Check.
Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where

required).
Providing evidence of qualifications.

**Division Responsibilities**
approve new medicines and biologicals for supply in Australia. MRD also has responsibility
for ongoing monitoring of medicines approved for supply in Australia to ensure they
continue to maintain an appropriate level of quality, safety and efficacy following entry into
the Australian marketplace.

**Branch Responsibilities**
The Prescription Medicines Authorisation Branch (PMAB) is one of five branches of MRD and
new uses of prescription medicines and other variations to prescription medicines currently
registered in the ARTG.

Through evaluating the pre-market clinical aspects of prescription medicines, and with
advice from other branches in the TGA, PMAB helps facilitate the supply of prescription
medicines that are safe for their intended use, efficacious and available in a timely manner.

**Section Responsibilities**
The Business Systems Review and Reporting (BSRR) section provides a range of services that
support the registration of prescription medicines in Australia.

Key responsibilities of the section include producing transparency related documents
including the Australian Public Assessment Report (AusPAR), coordinating external advice
and the Advisory Committee on Medicines (ACM) and Advisory Committee on Vaccines
reporting.***

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Secretariat support for expert advisory committee meetings, including drafting
- agenda papers and compiling supporting documents.
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- Coordination of committee meetings.
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- Draft and review scientific minutes.- Establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships particularly with
- committee members and invited experts.- Engagement with internal and external stakeholders.***

**Key Capabilities**:

- Creation of well written concise scientific minutes rapidly and with mínimal rework
- required,- Scientific analysis and research skills,
- Self-management of competing priorities with tight timeframes,
- Working co-operatively and effectively in a team environment,
- Flourish in a dynamic and fast paced workplace,
- Demonstrated high level communication skills, in particular the ability to liaise with

medical experts.

**Minimum Requirements**
RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and
also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment. All vacancies for
the Department of Health and Aged Care are advertised under the RecruitAbility Scheme.

Job applicants with disability who:

- opt into the scheme
- declare they have disability, and
- meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised under the scheme

are advanced to a further stage in the selection process.

More information on RecruitAbility can be found here: RecruitAbility scheme: A guide for
applicants

Minimum requirements for this role include:
Capacity to:

- attend meetings and take accurate minutes from fast paced discussion
- interact verbally with committee members and invited experts
- draft and review scientific minutes.

**Desirable Experience**
- Secretariat experience.
- Experience in or sound knowledge of, the regulation of therapeutic goods in

Australia.

**Application Response**
the real potential to develop, the required skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications
to perform the role. These requirements are based on the information provided to you as
part of the job advertisement, in line with the APS Work Level Standards.

Applicants are required to provide a statement of claims framed around the key duties and
key capabilities. **Your statement of claims should be no more than one page in total with a**
**font no smaller than size 10. Applications that do not meet these requirements may not**
**be considered.**

**Work Environment Description**
Responsibilities - As detailed in Section 28 of the Work Health and Safe