State Network Delivery

APS 5 & APS 6
- Bendigo, Vic
- APS5: $87,264 - $93,294 | APS6: $98,105 - $107,880

**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 Workforce Australia Provider Support Division is responsible for the frontline delivery of Australian Government-funded employment and skills programs, as well as place-based strategies that help give employers access to skilled workers. The Division uses its unique position within each state and territory to gather intelligence that informs strategic, evidence-based responses to labour market needs and to advance government priorities. The Division has strong relationships with training and employment services providers, employers, and industry associations as well as strategic relationships with other Commonwealth, state, territory and local government agencies.

The department has a national network of state and territory offices. In Victoria, we have offices in Melbourne and Bendigo. The Bendigo office manages external service providers who deliver Employment programs throughout regional Victoria.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**APS Level 5**
- Managing and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders to collaboratively achieve the department's and the Government’s policy measures
- Managing Australian Government contracts with service providers who deliver employment or skills services to the Victorian community
- Researching and interpreting program guidelines and policies to provide advice and guidance to internal stakeholders and our contracted providers
- Monitoring and assessing provider performance and compliance through data analysis, file monitoring and site visits
- Drafting communications and briefs for managers, delegates and visiting executive
- Actively participating in planning, project management, decision-making and solution brokering
- Processing payments and employer incentives, maintaining data integrity and undertaking data analysis to assess provider performance
- Administrative assistance through mailbox management, research and communication with internal and external stakeholders promptly and professionally

**APS Level 6**
- Providing leadership as an individual within a team, including leading discussions and taking initiative with projects or issues.
- Managing and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders to collaboratively achieve the department’s and the Government’s policy measures.
- Managing Australian Government contracts with service providers who deliver employment services to the community.
- Researching and interpreting program guidelines and policies to provide advice and guidance to internal stakeholders and our contracted providers.
- Monitoring and assessing provider performance and compliance through data analysis, file monitoring and site visits.
- Drafting compelling communications and briefs for managers, delegates and visiting executive.
- Actively participating in planning, project management, decision-making and solution brokering.

**Qualifications and Education**

Drivers Licence - Essential

**How to Apply**

Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than **1000**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 Ci