El 1 - Assistant Director - Ciog Force Element

$108,195 - $122,044 (plus Super)
- Canberra - ACT

**The Role**
Are you a highly motivated leader who wishes to make genuine impact for Defence outcomes? Are you seeking an exciting and rewarding role that will challenge and develop your capabilities?

As a member of the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Business Support Team, the successful applicant will support the Director CIOG Business Readiness in implementing new ways of working, enabling the Group to develop the required agility to meet the current and future demands of Defence.

Specifically, this role will be focused on Force Element Management activities for CIOG. This is a new function being established within CIOG to support the new ERP system.

You will undergo an ERP Program delivered training program to learn the new concepts and required processes involved to enable the support function. You will then form part of the new team providing this critical support function on behalf of CIOG. Ultimately you will work to lead CIOG in embedding the new ways of working and becoming self-reliant in the new system.

To be successful in this diverse role you will benefit from:

- A desire to contribute to significant outcomes for Defence.
- A genuine interest in governance and business process improvement.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey complex technical and non-technical information to a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a small team and manage competing priorities to deliver positive outcomes.
- Energy and enthusiasm in approaching the job and working well in a fast-paced environment.
- Broad understanding of the general business operations of one or more in scope ERP processes (Finance, Procurement, Logistics, HR, Data and Analytics).

**About our Team**
The CIOG ERP Business Support Function is being established within the existing CIOG ERP Business Readiness Team. This is a highly motivated team progressing rapidly to ensure CIOG's successful transition onto the new ERP System. The new ERP Business Support Function will provide the ongoing business as usual support following the ERP go live.

You will be exposed to the internal operations of CIOG and provided with an opportunity to support the Group in adopting and learning the new process of ERP. ERP will be a significant change for Defence with new concepts being introduced in force preparedness, resource management, workforce capacity planning and end to end simplified processes. You will play a leading role in ensuring CIOG is able to fully leverage the power of the new ERP system.

Extensive stakeholder engagement and Data & Analytics management is key to being successful in this role, and you will build extensive working relationships across CIOG and the broader Defence.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills, especially the ability to liaise with cross functional teams supporting whole of Defence ERP transformation activities.
- Ability to influence, negotiate and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
- Respond flexibly to changing situations to ensure the success and timeliness of key deliverable.
- Experience building and leading teams, including mentoring and building expertise.
- Good understanding of the inner workings of Defence/CIO Group including information management governance and control processes and procedures is desirable.
- Develop and deliver on action plans including representing CIO Group interests fostering changes to policy, process and information management procedures.
- Ability to work with and interpret different but related, pieces of information attributes such as Financials, Supply and Maintenance Relationships, Personnel and Positions, Materiel, Assets and Infrastructure.