Principal Policy Officer

5 days ago


Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

**About the Department**:
The Department of Education are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

**Your Role**:
As a Principal Policy Officer, your key responsibilities will include:

- Identify, analyse, write reports on, and provide leadership on strategic issues and formulate innovative and workable policy options and solutions.
- Assess strategic issues and policy initiatives including those occurring locally, nationally and internationally and provide high level strategic advice to the Minister, the Director-General and the Senior Executive of the department.
- Provide executive support to senior officers, including preparation of major policy papers, briefings, reports and submissions including Cabinet submissions.
- Represent the department on inter-departmental committees and working groups and coordinate the department's contribution.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
How to Apply;
**Interested applicants are invited to submit**:

- A short summary (no more than two pages) outlining your interest and suitability for the role including relevant skills, experience and abilities to deliver on the key competencies detailed in the Role Description; and
- A resume with contact details for two referees (one of whom should be your current supervisor).

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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