Risk Officer

APS Level 5
- Canberra, ACT
- $87,264 - $93,294

**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**

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Enterprise Risk, the Risk Officer will be provided direction in order to provide enterprise risk services for the department through:

- Delivering activities that develop, oversee, coordinate and implement the department’s enterprise risk management and Comcover Insurance arrangements.
- Maintaining the department’s enterprise risk management system and providing departmental user training for the system.
- Developing and assisting in the delivery of risk management workshops and training sessions, in a virtual and face to face environment.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

As a Risk Officer in the Enterprise Risk team, you will work in a dynamic, highly driven team delivering outcomes in a fast-paced environment. You would be expected to contribute to the sections key risk management initiatives in a project-based environment.
The successful applicant will understand the department’s business and be able to draw on Corporate knowledge and networks to achieve required results.
Responsibilities of the APS Level 5 may include:

- Managing multiple tasks, within tight timeframes
- Assist the senior risk officers with facilitating risk workshops for different audiences and development of risk training and guidance materials
- Build positive relationships and networks across the department to support maturing and maintaining a positive risk culture
- Review and update risk documentation
- Manage the section’s record management of shared drives and Outlook folders

**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.