Security Administration Support Officer

APS Level 4
- Canberra, ACT
- $79,036 - $84,525

**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 position reports to the Senior Security Officer and supports the department meet its personnel and physical security obligations as defined in the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF). The role’s focus is on Personnel & Physical security and includes ensuring prospective staff satisfy pre-employment screening requirements, ongoing staff and contactors remain suitable to access Australian Government resources and all departmental offices obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance (Baseline as a minimum).

**Duties and Responsibilities**

The Security Administration Support Officer’s duties will include but are not limited to:

- Work within a team responsible for the operational management of the department’s personnel security arrangements, including pre-employment screening, security clearance processes through document verification and police records checks, ongoing suitability requirements and separating personnel requirements.
- Utilise the AGSVA myClearance Portal to lodge and manage security clearance activities.
- When necessary, escalating issues to the AGSVA Customer Relations Support Team.
- Using various management tools to ensure all documents and decisions are fully recorded.
- Monitoring the Protective Security mailbox and hotline resolving issues and providing security clearance advice to staff and contractors.
- Maintain security related assets and the relevant registers for, but not limited to, security containers, shredders, and satchels.

**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 process of obtaining it.