Assistant Director

4 days ago

Greater Adelaide SA, Australia Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Full time

EL 1 - $120,290 - $129,379 per annum plus superannuation
- Biosecurity Strategy & Reform Division
- Adelaide, SA, Brisbane, QLD, Cairns, QLD, Canberra, ACT, Darwin, NT, Melbourne, VIC, Mickleham, VIC, Perth, WA, Sydney, NSW
- Join a motivated and professional team that values a range of skill sets and backgrounds.
- Shape the development of advanced data analytics projects.
- Support evidence-based decision making about how best to protect Australia from biosecurity threats.

**Who we are**
The **Risk, Intelligence and Strategy Branch** is responsible for supporting and enhancing strategic decision-making through intelligence analysis, risk modelling and analysis, governance practices and modern biosecurity legislation. This branch is responsible for supporting the Biosecurity and Compliance Group to identify the next horizon of risks, threats and disruptions. It is also developing frameworks to enable strategic thinking to be embedded within line areas.

The **Biosecurity System Modelling Section** works at the interface of analytics, modelling, and biosecurity policy. We develop solutions to model how biosecurity in Australia is performing at a whole-of-system level. We collaborate broadly, both with internal policy areas and external experts in biosecurity modelling.

**The Job**

The Assistant Director role provides specialist modelling and analytic insights to decision-makers in biosecurity policy, by leading ongoing technical development and delivery of biosecurity risk advice, particularly focussed at the whole-of-system level. Under limited supervision, the Assistant Director is expected to:

- Lead a team to collaboratively apply, maintain and develop a quantitative model of system-level biosecurity risk and/or related models using R and/or Python.
- Deliver timely, transparent and scientifically sound biosecurity risk insights to inform decision making.
- Provide quality and integrity assurance of team data-processing, statistical and modelling approaches and the biosecurity risk insights they produce.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of strategies to broaden the scope of team modelling capability and its value proposition.
- Lead, facilitate and/or contribute to collaborative modelling projects with internal and external stakeholders.
- Produce written and verbal descriptions of modelling analyses, including appropriate interpretation of the results, assumptions and limitations.
- Contribute to team development and supervise staff as required.

**Please note**that the merit pool established through this selection process, which is valid for a period of eighteen months from the date the vacancy was advertised in the Public Service Gazette, may also be used to fill future ongoing vacancies in the branch where the duties are of a similar nature.

**What are we looking for**
**Knowledge and experience**
- Knowledge of approaches in analysis and modelling (familiarity with modelling risk via probabilistic and/or simulation approaches is desirable).
- Experience dealing with incomplete and uncertain datasets.
- Experience in business analysis, communication or stakeholder engagement is desirable.
- Familiarity with Australia’s biosecurity system is desirable.
- An interest in working at the interface of modelling and policy.

**Mandatory qualifications**
A tertiary level qualification in applied mathematics/statistics, economics, computer science, life science, or equivalent experience.

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