Aps 6 - Governance Officer

20 hours ago

Russell, Australia Australian Government Full time

$91,702 - $104,753 + up to 15.4% Superannuation
- Russell - ACT

**The Role**
As the APS 6 Governance Officer, you will support the delivery of a wide-ranging portfolio of governance activities in support of the Vice Chief of the Defence Force (VCDF) and VCDF Group. You will be part of a small team delivering strategic governance advice and activities across VCDF Group such as performance, risk, audit and conflict of interest.

The APS6 Governance Officer is expected to:

- Provide accurate, timely and expert advice relating to governance products ensuring in-depth knowledge of and compliance with Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (PGPA) Act, Commonwealth Resource Management Framework, and Departmental guidelines and regulations.
- Consider and effectively manage priorities and the development of team objectives for short term tasks and strategic planning for longer-term initiatives.
- Propose and implement innovative solutions, contributing to business improvement strategies to develop workplace practices and processes.
- Work independently with broad direction to resolve issues and deliver quality and timely governance products and advice.
- Undertake focused research and analysis to make decisions involving complex, long-term planning and liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
- Build and sustain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared goals, including anticipating and responding to stakeholder needs and expectations.

**About our Team**
The VCDF Governance team is a small team at the strategic centre of Defence supporting the VCDF and VCDF Group, working to the Chief of Staff Australian Defence Force Headquarters. The team ensures high quality advice and outcomes are provided to the senior leadership across VCDF Group to enable effective, evidence-based decision making.

The team manages a suite of corporate governance processes with a focus on evidence based performance and risk measurement and evaluation. This includes managing VCDF's accountabilities for performance and risk planning, reporting at the Enterprise level through the Defence Corporate Plan and Annual Report, and at the group level through the development and evaluation of the VCDF Group Business Plan. Additionally the team supports audit assurance activities, conflict of interest management and the VCDF group’s business continuity arrangements.

The team is regularly required to interrogate multiple sources of information and engage extensively across Defence to provide briefing material in support of VCDF's attendance at various decision making committees.

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