El 1 - Executive Officer - Chief Counsel Office

1 week ago


Campbell, Australia Australian Government Full time

$115,899 - $130,733 + up to 15.4% Superannuation
- Campbell Park - ACT

**The Role**

The Executive Officer will support the Chief Counsel and the Defence Legal Division to deliver executive support, manage divisional business and corporate related activities. These activities include coordination of freedom of information and other requests including from corporate and ministerial coordination requests, senate estimates and committee preparation briefings, coordinate responses to questions on notice, and manage the day to day functions of the office and additional work as required.

The Executive Officer will engage extensively with the corporate areas of the department and across agencies, and will provide quality assurance and ensure consistency across the division on its corporate obligations.

**About our Team**
As part of Defence Legal, you will have the opportunity to have direct exposure to the Senior Leadership and the breadth of Departmental services, programs, policy and regulation. You will gain valuable experience in enabling services to further enhance your career and the opportunity to use your governance, human resource, financial and/or coordination expertise to support the team to deliver high quality services to the division.

While the focus of your work is within the division, you will have an outward view, and establish networks across services, other Defence Groups and corporate areas.

We are looking for emerging leaders with a blend of strategic facilitation, co-ordination and administration skills. Experience in executive, ministerial support and enabling services would be highly regarded, as well as the ability to contribute to embedding a service focused culture in to support the division to deliver on its priorities.

We are looking for emerging leaders with a blend of strategic facilitation, co-ordination and administration skills. Experience in executive, ministerial support and enabling services would be highly regarded, as well as the ability to contribute to embedding a service focused culture to support the division to deliver on its priorities.

To succeed in the position you will demonstrate excellent organisational, communication, interpersonal and liaison skills and demonstrate an 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 Executives 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 prepare sound advice by exercising good judgement; and
- Show professionalism, personal drive and integrity, including demonstrated ability to take responsibility and achieve objectives in challenging circumstances.



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