Policy Officer

4 days ago


Sydney, Australia Ampersand Full time

**Pay rate: $70 - $109.58/Hour +**
**Super.**

**Contract length: 7 months + possible extension**

**Location: Canberra / WFH / remote / Sydney**

**About the role**

The Policy Officer will contribute to the development of evidence-based policy frameworks extending to citizen identity, business identity, privacy, consent and more to enhance digital services so they can be accessed anytime, anywhere, or using any device.

**Skills or knowledge**
**required.**
- Be a creative conceptual thinker with extensive experience in policy development.
- Be able to communicate to a broad range of people using a concise written style and with a flair for visual representation of material.
- Bring a user experience lens to your work, informed by research, insights, evaluation, and feedback.
- Adopt a collaborative approach with stakeholders, seeking to understand their business, priorities, and the changes they are working to effect.
- Enjoy working in a dynamic, fast paced environment, being flexible and dealing well with change.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team.

**Responsibilities**
As a Policy Officer, you will:

- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Contribute to the team’s remit to provide policy and advice to support the delivery and evolution of contemporary digital services.
- Collaborate between policy areas across government and senior management to ensure policy-related matters are joined up and support the Government agenda for digital service delivery.
- With the Director, support senior management in consultation and negotiation with a range of government stakeholders on complex identity and digital service-related policy issues.
- Contribute to advice via a range of concise and professionally written documents (such as reports, briefing papers, Cabinet submissions and discussion papers) and verbally via meetings and presentations for a range of audiences, including senior executives and Ministers.
- Create a suite of policy materials which are consistent, user-friendly, relevant, up to date and in line with whole of government guidelines, policies, and procedures.

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