El1 - Assistant Director, Conduct and Performance, People Branch

**Contact Officer**:
**Closing Date**:
11.59pm AEDT, Thursday, 30 January 2025

**The opportunity we have available**:
**What will you do?**

You will contribute to department’s people performance and conduct strategies, promoting innovation and best practice while ensuring Australian Government policy advice is applied.

This role is varied and dynamic, typically including the following duties:

- Design and implement performance and behavioural strategies for the department ensuring best practice and compliance with relevant legalisation, APS policy and departmental practices.
- Undertake or facilitate APS Code of Conduct investigations, preliminary assessments, including preparation of briefings, reports, reviews and assessments.
- Build a performance culture within the department, and support people leaders lift performance and capability, including guiding parties through relevant policies and process.
- Manage data and reporting for the team to support evidence-based decision making.
- Prepare and present training targeted training programs for management and employees on a range of matters including but not limited to respect at work, performance and behaviour including the APS Code of Conduct and Values.
- Contribute to projects to assist the section to meet Branch priorities, as required.

**Who are we looking for?**

To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate your ability to:

- Achieve results and quality outcomes by showing initiative and leadership, working in a small team delivering multiple activities at any given time, often within tight timeframes.
- Communicate effectively both written and verbal, delivering information in a variety of formats for a range of audiences.
- Collaborate across diverse teams, using your exceptional interpersonal and engagement skills to engage with senior leaders and a wide variety of stakeholders, valuing different perspectives, contributions and backgrounds.
- Have a growth mindset with a willingness to continue to learn, develop, and foster an environment for team members to do the same.
- Think strategically, evaluating complex information from a variety of sources to make connections and sound decisions while exercising good judgement.

**RecruitAbility minimum requirements**

Minimum requirements for this role include points 1 to 3 under what we are looking for.
RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment.
Job applicants with disability who met the requirements are advanced to the next stage of the selection process:

- Opt into the scheme
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised in the scheme

More information can be found at RecruitAbility scheme: A guide for applicants | Australian Public Service Commission

**What else can we offer?**

We are dedicated to fostering personal and professional development, empowering individuals to set goals, acquire new skills, and cultivate unique qualities that define who they are. We believe that this not only leads to a more fulfilling and happier life but also enhances the overall quality of our work. Some of the benefits we offer include:

- Access to our study Assistance Program that provides paid leave and financial support for you to undertake courses of study that contribute to the improvements of your professional skills and knowledge relevant to our work and broader Australian Public Service.
- Through our investment in learning and development opportunities, and a positive performance culture, we provide diverse career pathways for our people to enable their mobility and adapt in a rapidly changing world.
- Improve your leadership skills, through the department’s Professional Coaching Scheme and tailored leadership opportunities for staff members.
- Flexible working opportunities, including part time hours, home based work and job sharing.
- We offer generous leave entitlements of 20 days personal circumstances leave per year, with one month’s accrual of leave credited on commencement and 150 hours of paid annual leave (based on a full-time employee), plus a range of other miscellaneous leave options to support you.

Join our department and embark on a journey of growth, fulfillment, and well-being. Experience personal and professional development, prioritise your health, and be part of a vibrant and positive culture that empowers individuals and drives exceptional performance.

**Eligibility requirements**

**How to apply**

Applications for this opportunity close at **11.59pm AEDT, Thursday 30 January 2025.**

**Timeline and assessment**
A selection panel will be established to assess your suitability against the advertised role.
If a merit pool is established it will be valid for 18 months from date it first appeared in the APS Gazette.

Applications open**:9 January 2025**
Applications close**:30 January 2025**
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