Policy Officer

3 days ago

Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

The role
As a Policy Officer in Queensland Health's Legislative Policy Unit, you will support legislative reforms on primary and subordinate laws across a wide variety of health-related areas. For example, the team has recently worked on projects relating to tobacco reform, mental health, forensic science, medicine regulation, termination of pregnancy, radiation safety, pharmacy business ownership and voluntary assisted dying. These projects focussed on improving health outcomes, access to health care and public safety.
**You will be responsible for**:

- Preparing high quality and timely briefing notes, ministerial communications, reports, submissions and correspondence as required.
- Participating as a team member in projects to develop and amend Health and Ambulance legislation.
- Undertaking legislative policy reviews, analysing and reporting on submissions, and developing briefings and issues papers requiring research.
- Providing support and advice to policy areas within Queensland Health on processes and procedures for developing and amending legislation.

**In return**:

- You will get to work on interesting, diverse and complex matters and further develop your existing skills, knowing that you are making a difference to the health and wellbeing of Queenslanders.
- You will get to work with a high-performing and collaborative team of about 15 legislative officers, with a genuine commitment to work-life balance. We work hard but have a thriving (completely optional) social agenda. We're a very welcoming team and place high importance on maintaining our supportive culture.

The successful person
**To be successful in this role you will**:

- demonstrate experience in supporting primary and subordinate legislation projects or experience in policy development or legal skills working within a complex service delivery environment
- have proven skills in researching and analysing policy issues and providing high quality and timely advice to management in relation to those issues
- be familiar with, or able to quickly gain knowledge of, the parliamentary and Cabinet process
- demonstrate experience in project management working on complex time-critical projects
- demonstrate high-level verbal and written communication skills including the ability to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across all levels of an organisation.

About us
The Department of Health is responsible for the overall management of the public health system in Queensland. We are an organisation that strongly believes in the need to work with people who value the goals of our organisation and who will thrive in our workplace. Working at the Department of Health is about making a difference.

**Benefits**:

- A fast-paced, challenging and supportive environment
- Competitive salary + generous superannuation and leave loading
- Flexible working arrangements
- Diverse work culture
- Career training and development

How to apply
- Please submit your resume (including the details of two referees), and
- A cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining your skills and experience relevant for this role.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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