El1 - Assistant Director - Business Application

**Contact Officer**:
**Closing Date**:
**11.59pm AEDT, Thursday 28 November 2024**

**Our Department Values**:
Our values set the direction for what it means to work in our department. They inform the standard and expectations of behaviours, skills and capabilities and the attributes we currently have, will continually work to achieve and develop, and that we use to acknowledge and attract, retain and recruit into our department.

**The opportunity we have available**:
Organised within the Chief Operating Officer Group within the department, Information Technology (IT) Division’s purpose is to connect people and technology, empowering the department to excel.

The division provides the digital collaboration and communications tools necessary to connect a geographically dispersed workforce and to optimise hybrid working arrangements. We manage industry and public facing digital systems, deliver desktop services to over 2,200 staff, support over 30 office locations across Australia and oversee the department’s cyber security capability.

**What will you do?**:
Key responsibilities will include:

- Provide technical leadership and advice to colleagues and Senior Executive
- Manage demand and prioritise workloads in consultation with the Director of ICT Operations
- Work closely with the department’s IT Security team to ensure that the department is not exposed to unacceptable IT security risk
- Focus on continuous improvement for the department’s IT systems, procedures and practises

**Who are we looking for?**:

- Manage code and projects in Azure DevOps, including development of build and release pipelines
- Provide high quality and timely strategic advice and assist with problem solving and issue management for internal and external stakeholders in relation to complex business challenges
- Oversee and prepare a range of written material including business cases, agency briefs and corporate documentation

Tertiary qualifications in an IT discipline, relevant industry certifications or demonstrated industry experience will be highly regarded.

**RecruitAbility minimum requirements**:
Minimum requirements for this role include:

- Proven leadership skills and the ability to effectively coordinate work ensuring high quality and timely outcomes.
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills, including strong attention to detail.
- Ability to provide timely and concise advice to inform and support executive decision making.
- Ability to establish and maintain key strategic relationships with a broad range of stakeholders

RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment.

Job applicants with disability who met the requirements are advanced to the next stage of the selection process:

- Opt into the scheme
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised in the scheme

More information can be found at RecruitAbility scheme: A guide for applicants | Australian Public Service Commission.

**What else can we offer?**:
**Your life**

Find your purpose.
We provide the environment you need through excellent conditions and a supportive, values-driven culture, allowing you to keep being you.
Our values are to be: respectful, informed, collaborative, adaptive, accountable. Through our commitment to these values, we maintain a fulfilling and supportive environment that promotes the wellbeing of our people.
We offer job security, flexible work arrangements, regional and city work locations, generous leave and superannuation entitlements and access to higher tiered pay points in some classifications.
Access to join our 6 staff-led diversity networks which promote a culture of inclusion to enhance work performance and the wellbeing of all staff.

**Your contribution**

Our collaborative and supportive culture fosters high performing teams where you are valued for your expertise, experiences and point of view.
We provide the environment you need through excellent conditions and a supportive, values-driven culture, allowing you to keep being you.
We provide a respectful and inclusive working environment.
Our people feel a sense of belonging and are acknowledged for the contributions they make towards our objectives to deliver for the Australian community.

**Your development**

Commence or enhance your career pathway and build your knowledge, skills and experience through our commitment to learning and development and professional opportunities.
Through our investment in learning and development opportunities, and a positive performance culture, we provide diverse career pathways for our people to enable their mobility and adapt in a rapidly changing world.
We offer generous leave and superannuation entitlements and access to higher tiered pay points in some classifications.

**Your passion**

You can contribute to work that enriches our communiti