Employment Procurement Branch

APS Level 6
- Canberra, ACT
- $94,332 - $103,731

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We enable access to quality skills, training and employment services to support Australians find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces - supporting individuals and our nation to prosper.

**The Role**
The Employment Procurement Branch is seeking dynamic people who will contribute to a variety of projects, while working collaboratively with key internal and external stakeholders. This may include working on projects with strict timelines, drafting process documentation, contributing to papers and briefs, development of planning documentation to support procurement activities, undertaking procurement processes, undertaking quality assurance activities, and supporting program areas.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Procurement Project Officer
Procurement Project Officers undertake a range of project activities related to employment services procurement, which may include:

- Drafting written material and briefings for the executive and Minister to support purchasing activities
- Administrative and secretariat work including coordinating meetings with stakeholders and researching procurement information
- Developing and maintaining project documentation such as project status reports, project management plans, project schedules, and consultation, probity, risk, issues, and change registers
- Liaising with internal stakeholders for input
- Working closely with IT and property teams to support large-scale projects
- Preparing reports addressing risks, interdependencies and project outcomes to senior management, executives, and stakeholders
- Drafting advice and guidance materials to support procurement and related activities
- Providing advice and technical expertise to guide project activities
- Implementing processes, procedures and tools that support the delivery of high-quality employment services procurement projects
- Evaluating and reviewing progress against milestones using a range of techniques and tools, including monitoring and analysis of performance
- Undertaking a range of procurement project tasks such as probity advice, compliance and reporting, assessment, debriefing, procurement administration and support, related training and provision of related advice.

Quality Assurance Officer

Quality Assurance Officers undertake a range of quality assurance activities, which may include:

- Ensuring products developed by the branch are error free and consistent with expectations of quality
- Overseeing systems input and undertaking data and information quality assurance
- Assessing and interpreting a range of information to identify gaps in data or sources
- Ensuring compliance with public service and ministerial standards in documentation
- Undertaking data and information checks to support large scale mailouts
- Building stakeholder relationships including responding to stakeholder requests, collating, and disseminating relevant information, resolving problems, escalating issues when required, and effectively prioritising responses to stakeholders.

Systems and Data Officer

Systems and Data Officers undertake a range of activities, which may include:

- Preparing data and reporting tools to support multiple purchasing activities
- Gathering and maintaining data and systems to ensure the effective management of procurement and related processes
- Preparing data to support purchasing decisions
- Providing support for the use of data tools
- Preparing data reports and briefs to support reporting requirements
- Providing advice to non-data stakeholders in an easy-to-understand manner.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide up to a one-page summary (no more than 500 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

**Please refer to the Job Information Pack for more information about the role.**

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