External Budget Officer

APS Level 5
- Canberra, ACT
- $90,580 - $96,839

**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 External Budgets, Strategy and Performance Branch supports and delivers strategic policy
thinking, budget priorities, corporate planning and performance. As trusted advisers we engage
across DEWR, the APS and our ministers to support government decision-making, maintaining
strategic awareness and developing positions on emerging and complex policy issues.

The Branch works collaboratively with central agencies, portfolio entities and internal and external
stakeholders on strategic policy, Budget and performance and accountability matters and plays a key
role in the provision of advice to our Ministers and the Executive. We do this be ensuring a
connected and portfolio-wide approach in our products, services and advice.

Reporting to the relevant assistant director, our External Budgets Officers will:

- Work with key internal and external stakeholders including central agencies and portfolio entities
- Facilitate and advise on the development and delivery of costings, costing justifications and new policy proposals
- Assist with the delivery of key budget publications
- Support the management of the portfolio’s budget estimates, including maintaining timely and accurate estimates in Budget systems (CBMS and TM1).

This process may be used to fill multiple positions across the Branch, in addition to establishing a
merit pool to fill future vacancies.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the External Budgets Officer may include:

- Supporting the development and costing of proposals, including providing advice on the development of NPPs, costings and detailed costing justifications
- Supporting the management of the portfolio’s budget estimates, including analysing, reviewing program estimate and costing models to support preparing the department’s forward estimates, including maintaining timely and accurate estimates in Budget systems (CBMS and TM1)
- Assisting in providing input and both strategic and technical advice on sensitive matters including the Budget Process Operational Rules, Commonwealth Resource Management Framework, Ministerial submissions and briefs
- Liaising with internal stakeholders, portfolio entities and other agencies on budget matters
- Contributing to the preparation of Budget publications including the Portfolio Budget Statements and Additional Estimates Statements

**Qualifications and Education**
There are no specific qualifications required for these roles; however, the following will be highly desirable:

- A relevant tertiary qualification in Accounting, Finance, or Commerce, with CPA or CA certification (or working towards it)
- Familiarity with Australia skills and training, employment or workplace relations programs
- Understanding or knowledge of Federal Cabinet and Budget processes

**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.