Assistant Manager, Executive Level 1

**Job no**: 512757

**Employment type**: Ongoing

**Location**: Canberra

**Categories**: Policy, Executive Level 1

**About the department**:
The department plays a key role in the Australian Government’s agenda to create jobs and build a stronger, more resilient and competitive economy. Our work builds on Australia’s existing strengths, supports businesses to grow, and drives new opportunities for long-term productivity growth and prosperity. The success of the department helps Australia recover from the economic consequences of COVID‑19 and adapt to its ongoing effects. Through our work, we support the government’s economic recovery plan and help to deliver a better future for all Australians.

**About the team**:
The International, Trade and National Security Division of the Department of Industry, Science and Resources has a range of roles available to help change Australia for the better.

Our teams work with international counterparts, other Government stakeholders and industry to:

- Advise and align Government’s Industry, Science and Resource priorities to engage with global opportunities.
- Engage and deliver programs that improve our trade, economic, diplomatic and industry outcomes.
- Shape the department’s policy and program decisions with reference to national security considerations.

**The opportunity**

We are looking for talented, motivated, and inspiring people to join our teams to deliver Australia’s industry, science, and resources priorities.

If you have a global perspective and are passionate about achieving results for Australia, then we want to hear from you

We’re looking for people from a range of backgrounds and experiences and are recruiting for the following vacancies across the three branches of the division:
Trade and International Branch - which oversees our trade policy and programs, international negotiations, standards frameworks, international ministerial engagements, and overseas counsellor network.
- Assistant Manager, International and Strategic Engagement Section
- Assistant Manager, Trade Policy Section
- Assistant Manager, Trade Facilitation Section
- Assistant Manager, Ministerial Travel and Overseas Counsellors Section.

International Science and Resources Branch - which manages the topical engagements with foreign governments, delivers key international partnership programs and provides policy advice on bilateral and multilateral science and resources matters.
- Assistant Manager, North Asia and India Section.
- Assistant Manager, International Resources Engagement Section

National Security Engagement Branch - which ensures national security considerations support the department’s policy decisions, and that the department’s interests are understood by the national security policy and intelligence community.
- Assistant Manager, National Security Coordination Section
- Assistant Manager, Economic Security Section
- Assistant Manager, China Section
- Assistant Manager, Intelligence Strategy Section

**What’s in it for you?**

Our Assistant Managers are the engine room of our division. We empower our Assistant Managers to drive and deliver complex and sensitive work programs under limited direction. Assistant Managers have teams of up to five people working to them are strategic thinkers that provide thoughtful leadership, and can deliver high quality work in fast-paced environments.

We’re interested in people with skills and experience in:

- Policy development - Help us turn ideas into actions with your experience in leading and implementing policy in government, institutions, and businesses.
- Program management - Help us manage critical investments in Australia’s trade and research capability through your knowledge of delivering systems and structures.
- National security - Help us consider the geopolitical environment to inform the departments decisions and provide advice to government on economic security.

**What you will do**:
You will undertake work that is very complex or sensitive and operate under broad direction. You will exercise a considerable degree of independence and perform a leadership role. You will contribute to strategic direction and undertake work activities with an awareness of possible impact on strategic, political or operational outcomes for the department. Specifically, you will:

- drive and deliver complex and critical work programs
- undertake research and analysis to support stakeholders tasked with complex policy development and implementation
- respond to rapidly changing priorities working collaboratively with colleagues and relevant stakeholders
- build and leverage constructive relationships with colleagues, senior management and other relevant stakeholders
- build capability in a team environment by coaching others, providing performance feedback, resolving differences and encouraging career development
- have strong written, editorial and presentational skills, including the ability to develop e