External Budgets, Strategy and Performance

Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT
- $115,996 - $128,200

**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 External Budgets, Strategy and Performance Branch supports and delivers strategic policy thinking, budget priorities, corporate planning and performance. As trusted advisers we engage across DEWR, the APS and our ministers to support government decision-making, maintaining strategic awareness and developing positions on emerging and complex policy issues.?

The Branch works collaboratively with central agencies, portfolio entities and internal and external stakeholders on strategic policy, Budget and performance and accountability matters and plays a key role in the provision of advice to our Ministers and the Executive. We do this by ensuring a connected and portfolio-wide approach in our products, services, and advice.?

Reporting to a Director, the Assistant Director is responsible for:

- Working closely with key internal and external stakeholders, including senior executive, central agencies and the Minister’s Office,
- Formulating and provide strategic advice and support in relation to budget matters including fiscal policy and whole-of-government policy priorities
- Facilitating and advising on the development and delivery of costings, costing justifications and new policy proposals
- Coordinating and supporting the delivery of key budget publications
- In External Budget Outcome Teams, coordinating and supporting the management of the portfolio’s budget estimates, including maintaining timely and accurate estimates in Budget systems (CBMS-R and TM1).

Roles are available in both
**External Budgets teams** and in the
**Budget and Strategic Policy team.**

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the Assistant Director may include:

- Providing effective briefing and policy advice on budget matters, fiscal policy, and whole-of-government policy priorities
- Facilitate the development and costing of proposals, including providing advice and support to business areas on the development of npps, costings and detailed costing justifications
- Assist in responding to ad hoc queries from the ministers’ offices, central agencies and portfolio entities
- Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, portfolio entities and key commonwealth agencies, and
- Contribute to the preparation of budget publications including the portfolio budget statements and additional estimates statements
- Develop input and provide both strategic and technical advice on complex and sensitive matters including the budget process operational rules, commonwealth resource management framework, ministerial submissions and briefs
- Develop briefing packs and drafting correspondence and submissions relating to the budget process
- Coordinate and support the management of the portfolio’s budget estimates, including analysing, reviewing and managing program estimate and costing models to support the department’s forward estimates, including maintaining timely and accurate estimates in budget systems (cbms-r and tm1)
- Supervise staff as required.

**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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