Assistant Director, Industry Engagement

Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT | Sydney, NSW | Melbourne, VIC | Brisbane, QLD | Perth, WA | Adelaide, SA | Hobart, TAS | Darwin, NT
- $120,636 - $133,328

**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 Industry Policy Strategy and Engagement and Industry Policy Performance and Reporting branches support industry engagement in the national vocational education and training (VET) system through the Jobs and Skills Councils (JSC) program to provide industry with a strategic leadership role to identify, forecast and respond to current and emerging skills needs and workforce challenges, and delivering a range of related industry policy and initiatives.

To deliver this significant program of work, we are seeking motivated and high performing individuals who will work in JSC Relationship Management teams dedicated to specific industry sectors, the Stakeholder Networks and Engagement Team or other teams supporting the JSC Program and related industry policy and initiatives, with key functions including:

- Program relationship management.?
- Stakeholder engagement and communications.
- Industry forums, events and secretariat.?

**Duties and Responsibilities**

Responsibilities of the Executive Level 1 may include:

- Managing a small team undertaking program relationship management and/or stakeholder engagement.
- Engaging with internal and external stakeholders, such as program management teams and corporate areas, or industry stakeholders, peak bodies and states and territories.??
- Working collaboratively across the department, and with external stakeholders to develop strategic policy and advice, undertake data analysis, reporting and evaluation.
- Reviewing and supporting the development and implementation of work / project plans, workforce strategies and strategic plans.
- Leading a team in organising events, forums and communications related to the JSC Program and industry engagement.
- Preparing written correspondence and communication materials related to the JSC Program and industry engagement.
- Assist others in working collaboratively with states and territories on the development of training package products.
- Fostering team and divisional capacity in industry expertise, policy and / or communications and stakeholder engagement.
- Raising awareness for JSCs on performance arrangements and continuous improvement.

**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.