El1 Executive Officer

Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT
- $120,636 - $133,328

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.

**The Role**
JSA is seeking a suitably qualified and highly experienced EL1 Executive Officer (EO) to support two Deputy Commissioners, in the Office of the JSA Commissioners.

The Office of the JSA Commissioners supports JSA’s strategic advice, the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners, and JSA Executive.

The Office is a hub of exciting work and critical priorities and has both an operational and strategic focus that include activities such as:

- Coordinating high-level input to government activities such as cabinet submissions.
- Collaborating and working across JSA teams and stakeholders to shape strategic priorities.
- Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Developing the Annual JSA Work Plan and the Annual Jobs and Skills Report.

The successful applicant will require strong knowledge of JSA’s work program and governance or the ability to quickly build these skills. The EO will work directly with the Deputy Commissioners on planning and preparing briefings for their extensive external stakeholder engagements, including the development of meeting briefs, presentations, talking points, stakeholder analysis and speeches.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities may include:

- Proactive and effective collaboration with JSA’s senior executive and to support the Deputy Commissioner’s in their work with internal and external stakeholders.
- Effectively liaising and developing good relationships with stakeholders while representing the Deputy Commissioner’s office, this includes communicating their priorities and interests, following up on meeting actions and keeping the Deputy Commissioners and their stakeholders updated on relevant matters.
- Working closely with the Deputy Commissioners’ Executive Assistant (EA) to manage the business of the Deputy Commissioners, including triaging and prioritising requests, tasks and engagements and working collaboratively with the other Executive Officers.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than **1000**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**

**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**

**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.