El 1 - Policy Managers

4 days ago

Canberra, Australia Australian Government Department of Defence Full time

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

**The Role**
Strategy, Policy, and Industry Group is looking for a number of Policy Managers to contribute to the Department of Defence’s key policy and national security functions to protect and further Australia’s national interests.

Your role would be to lead a team to strengthen Australia’s national security and economic resilience; including, roles where you might use your leadership and policy skills to devise long-term strategy and policy to guide and align Defence, direct Defence’s international engagement, or help build a sovereign industrial base.

The Policy Manager roles spread across Strategy, Policy, and Industry Group are highly varied, but they all involve leading and developing high-performing teams to deliver national security objectives. On a daily basis, your team’s work could range from preparing the Minister to conduct talks with their international counterparts on Defence strategic policies or military engagement, working with the Australian Defence Force to provide policy guidance for operations, scanning the horizon to assess emerging strategic issues, or guiding industry to better meet Defence requirements.

No two days would be the same - guiding your team’s work, mentoring your team members, conducting meetings to support and influence stakeholders, briefing Defence’s Senior Leadership, consulting with other government agencies, industry stakeholders and the public, or contributing to
corporate transformational change.

**About our Team**
We are a fully integrated civilian-military workforce, drawing on high-quality and motivated people from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines who embody Defence and Australian Public Service values. We offer flexible working arrangements and a range of formal and informal professional development opportunities. While we offer a high degree of flexibility in the way we work, each position is located in Canberra. As such, successful applicants from outside Canberra, would need to move to Canberra if successful.

Working within Strategy, Policy, and Industry Group is more than just a job; it offers opportunities over the course of a career to work across diverse national security and policy matters of national significance. We actively support mobility within the Group when the time is right, but we also value our people developing their expertise in specific areas.

We are seeking motivated, enthusiastic and collaborative Policy Managers to join our Group, and contribute to Defence’s strategic goals.

To succeed in Strategy, Policy, and Industry Group, applicants require:

- practised leadership and people skills;
- sound judgement with an innovative approach to problem solving;
- superior written and verbal communication skills;
- strong relationship-building stakeholder skills; and
- adaptability, resilience, and flexibility in the face of changing priorities.

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