El1 - Assistant Director, Divisional Support Unit

**Contact Officer**:
**Closing Date**:
**11.59pm AEDT, Wednesday 30 October 2024**

**Our Department Values**

Our values set the direction for what it means to work in our department. They inform the standard and expectations of behaviours, skills and capabilities and the attributes we currently have, will continually work to achieve and develop, and that we use to acknowledge and attract, retain and recruit into our department.

**The opportunity we have available**

The Assistant Director supports the Director, DSU and the division to deliver executive support and manage divisional business and corporate related activities. These activities include coordination of: corporate coordination requests, governance, administered budget and reporting, business planning, recruitment, performance and annual reporting, and senate estimates preparation, briefing and questions on notice.

The Assistant Director engages extensively with the corporate areas of the department, and provides quality assurance and ensures consistency across the division on its corporate/financial obligations.

As part of the DSU you will have the opportunity to have direct exposure to Senior Executives and the breadth of departmental 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.

You will establish and embed processes, practices and tools to operationalise corporate policies and procedures in the division. You will assist the Director in leading a small team and build a service focused culture to meet the needs to the Senior Executive and division.

To succeed in this role, experience in, or the ability to quickly learn, government corporate/financial processes to oversee the business of the division, including administered and departmental budgets. While the focus of your work is within the division, you will have an outward view, and establish networks across divisions and corporate areas.

**Who are we looking for?**

We are looking for emerging leaders with a blend of strategic facilitation, co-ordination and administration skills. Experience in finance, human resources, executive or ministerial support and/or 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.

To succeed in the position you will demonstrate excellent organisational, communication, interpersonal and liaison skills and demonstrate:
**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.

**Professionalism, personal drive and integrity**, including demonstrated ability to take responsibility and achieve objectives in challenging circumstances.

**RecruitAbility minimum requirements**

Minimum requirements for this role include:

- **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.
- **Think strategically**, evaluating complex information from a variety of sources to make connections and prepare sound advice by exercising good judgement.

RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment.

Job applicants with disability who met the requirements are advanced to the next stage of the selection process:

- Opt into the scheme
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised in the scheme

More information can be found at RecruitAbility scheme: A guide for applicants | Australian Public Service Commission (apsc.gov.au).

**What else can we offer?**

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