Policy Officer

APS 6 - $85,833 - $97,454 per annum plus superannuation
- Biosecurity Operations Division
- Canberra, ACT
- _Provide a range of governance, risk management and secretariat support services to support BOD and the broader department. _
- _Be responsible for consulting with other corporate areas of the department to provide advice on department wide initiatives, policies and approaches impacting the Biosecurity Operations Division. _
- _Work consultatively with other corporate areas of the department and provides advice on department wide initiatives and approaches impacting the Biosecurity Operations Division._

**Who we are**
The Border System and Planning Branch (in the Biosecurity Operations Division) drives the development, promotion and implementation of innovative and contemporary business strategies to improve our regulatory activities. The Branch also integrates national arrangements across operational groups and supports the Biosecurity Operations Executive by:

- developing operating models to continue to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our operational and regulatory functions
- providing a conduit between the national programs and operational groups to facilitate operational integration
- establishing and maintaining operational performance monitoring and reporting, assurance and verification, operational continuity, incident response
- facilitating Industry Engagement and business system support
- undertaking internal transformation project/s related to workload and workforce analysis.
- facilitating the management of change into Biosecurity Operations Division
- undertake the development and delivery of technical training within the Biosecurity Operations Division
- governance, planning and reporting to support the Biosecurity Operations executive.

The Governance and Planning team (in the Border System and Planning branch) manages divisional governance and planning frameworks and provides advice and strategic support to BOD executive. The team also oversees BOD’s responsibilities through the departmental integrity framework and management of biosecurity officer ID cards.

**The Job**
As Policy Officer - Governance and Planning your key duties will include:

- provide clear and efficient ways to implement effective governance arrangements, including providing secretariat support for governance committees
- develop correspondence, papers and reports for executive committee meetings
- support the divisional business planning and risk management planning processes
- assist with the development of strategic corporate documents (as needed)
- assist with divisional business continuity planning to ensure high quality responsive business continuity services for the division
- monitoring and managing of work tasks, workflows, and competing priorities.

**What we are looking for**

**Knowledge and experience**
To be successful in this role you will:

- be a high performer who is motivated to work effectively individually and have a demonstrated ability to engage with other staff and manage significant issues or projects.

**Skills and capabilities**
Core attributes, skills and capabilities for the role involve the ability to:

- have an awareness of and ability to anticipate and communicate the impacts of business developments to all involved
- have sound judgement and an ability to work in a team, prioritise tasks, work with limited direction and produce high quality work within agreed timeframes
- have strong written and verbal communication skills including an ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to senior executives and external stakeholders
- work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve goals and build productive relationships with a range of stakeholders
- build relationships across the division, focussed on key communicators
- demonstrate strong communication skills, written and verbal
- work autonomously when required
- work consultatively with a wide network of stakeholders
- have good organisation and time management skills to achieve across multiple priorities
- engage and negotiate with influence with internal and external stakeholders
- provide strategic advice
- be outcomes focussed with a view to business improvement.

**For additional information, please read the Job Description below.