Assistant Director, Strategic Procurement Program

Executive Level
- Canberra, ACT
- $120,636 - $133,328

**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're 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.

**Please note, this opportunity is for Ongoing APS employees only.**

**Please discuss the possibility of release with your manager before applying.**

**The Role**
We’re looking for a high performing individual that likes variety, solving problems and is keen to effect change. Working to the Program Director (EL2) and closely with the Procurement and Grants Advisory Team, in this role you will lead and or support a range of initiatives to:

- build procurement and grants capability within the department
- improve procurement and grants related procedures, processes and reporting
- support the program areas delivering highly sensitive, complicated and or high value strategic procurements.
- **Phase 2 of the Better Practice Commissioning Program**: Following on from Phase 1 which saw the Commissioning Categorisation Framework developed and implemented, Phase 2 will focus on embedding change
- ** Project managing the implementation of new and changed procurement related policies**:New and changed policies require consultation, updated templates and guidance, training and communication and often new reporting capability

**Skills and Capabilities**
- experience playing a leading role in formal project or program delivery (i.e. those with project plans, timelines, budgets, status reporting, etc)
- being highly organised, including having the ability to effectively prioritise and achieve deadlines
- able to effectively make critical assessments and solve complex problems
- high attention to detail
- the ability to communicate with influence, both orally and in writing
- a flexible and adaptable approach with a high level of resilience
- ability to productively work with limited direction, including having honed judgement of when to involve senior executive for assistance and or visibility
- experience drafting succinct meeting papers, briefs, reports, etc and (with support) presenting to senior management
- an understanding of government corporate governance requirements
- a track record of initiating, establishing and maintaining strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
- ideally (but not essential) an understanding of Commonwealth procurement and or grants processes, policy and reporting.

**The Opportunity**
This position is available to Ongoing Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and/or APS employees as a temporary transfer at level and/or a temporary performance (Acting) opportunity for a period of 6 months.

**Qualifications and Education**
Only include essential qualifications, otherwise delete this section.**

**Eligibility**

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide up to a one-page summary (no more than 750 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 eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

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