Assistant Director

EL 1 - $120,290 - $129,379 per annum plus superannuation
- Electricity Division
- Adelaide, SA,Brisbane, QLD,Canberra, ACT,Darwin, NT,Hobart, TAS,Melbourne, VIC,Perth, WA
- The successful applicants will undertake work that is complex and/or sensitive in nature and work under limited direction with reasonable autonomy and accountability.
- You will provide detailed technical, professional, and/or policy advice in relation to complex problems and assist in strategic planning, program and project management and policy development.
- These roles may have a considerable level of public contact in relation to difficult or sensitive issues and may liaise with a range of stakeholders in a representational capacity.
- Work may involve management responsibilities requiring the setting of priorities and managing workflows.

**Who we are**
The Consumer Energy Resources (CER) Branch is focused on implementing national reform priorities under the National Consumer Energy Resources Roadmap (the Roadmap) Implementation Plan, which was endorsed by Energy Minister and Climate Change Council in 2024. This involves leading the interjurisdictional CER Working Group responsible for delivery of the roadmap, and reporting to ministers on progress. The branch leads a CER Taskforce comprised of officials, market body secondees and contractors, which is progressing several projects under the Roadmap, including the development and oversight of project plans. The branch oversees a CER Taskforce Reference Group that leans on the technical expertise of key stakeholders to provide input into work under the Roadmap. The branch is made up of several teams responsible for leading on projects covering different areas under the Roadmap Implementation Plan. There are teams responsible for the development of technology interoperability standards for CER including electric vehicles (EVs) (CER Technology and Standards), establishing a national regulatory framework to oversee and enforce standards (National Regulatory Framework for CER), and reforms to market and power system operations (CER Market Reform). There are also teams responsible for taskforce coordination (Taskforce program office) and policy advice (Policy). Policy advice and analysis covers CER but extends to distributed energy resources more broadly, including integration of EVs into the grid.

The CER Consumer Information team is responsible for developing a communication framework and strategy to support consumers to understand the role that CER can play in the energy system, and their opportunities to participate, creating benefits for themselves and others.

The CER Technology and Standards team is working on projects to optimise the energy system to accommodate CER as an integral part. A key element is the development of technology interoperability standards for CER, including electric vehicles (EVs).

The CER Program Office supports the CER Taskforce branch by providing secretariat services to key stakeholder groups, program governance reporting, and general project management support. It also helps identify and coordinate work between CER priority areas in the CER Roadmap.

The CER Market Reform team is working on developing well-designed markets and incentives to optimise utilisation of CER and existing grid assets to unlock significant value for market participants, including networks and consumers. Key initiatives include:

- redefining roles for market and power system operations,
- establishing CER data sharing arrangements, and
- enabling new market offers and tariff structures.

The National CER Technical Regulatory Framework team is designing a new regulatory framework that is consumer-centric, future focused and administers a nationally consistent regulatory environment for establishing and enforcing CER technical standards and addressing associated issues. It is anticipated a Commonwealth regulator will be required as part of the regulatory framework. The team will be responsible for ensuring the establishment of the Commonwealth regulator including gaining policy support, informing the drafting of legislation and guiding the legislation through the Parliament.

The CER Policy team provides strategic policy oversight of the CER landscape in Australia. The team tracks relevant trends and emerging issues and seeks innovative solutions to key CER policy challenges. Outputs include new policy proposals, briefings and policy advice to the government. Collaboration with other CER Taskforce branch teams, other policy areas, agencies and CER stakeholders is core work for the Policy team.

**The Job**
Depending upon the role, duties may include all or some of the following:

- undertaking and/or coordinating research and analysis (potentially including supporting data, modelling, legislative/regulatory, and/or procurement activities)
- developing and providing advice based on that research and analysis developing briefings for the executive, the Minister and other areas of th