Executive Level 1

**Job Reference Number **22-HERDIV-14470

**Classification **Executive Level 1

**Job Title **Assistant Director

**Division **Health Economics and Research Division

**Branch **Health Economics and Modelling Branch

**Section **Various

considered across State Based locations:
Woden ACT, Sydney NSW, Parramatta NSW, Darwin NT,
Adelaide SA, Hobart TAS, Melbourne VIC, Perth WA, Brisbane
QLD.

**Status **Ongoing

**Employment type **Full-time & Part-time

**Salary Range **$108,680 - $123,951

**Security Clearance **Baseline (Protected, Highly Protected, Restricted, Confidential)***

**Desirable Qualifications **- A tertiary degree or demonstrated experience in
Economics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Data
Science, Statistics, Maths, Modelling, Epidemiology,
Actuarial Science, or other relevant fields.

**Desirable Experience **- Advanced skills and experience in programming
languages for data analysis (e.g.SAS, R, Python and SQL
etc.), and data visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau, Qlik,
etc.).
- Advanced knowledge and experience in time series

forecast, microsimulation models, budget estimates and
relevant costing models.
**Contact Officer Name**:Yingsong Hu
**Phone**:02 6289 5047

**Eligibility**
- To be eligible for employment with the Department of Health and Aged Care

applicants must be an Australian citizen at the time an offer of employment is made
- An applicant’s suitability for employment with Health will also be assessed through a

variety of pre-employment check processes, such as:

- Satisfactory completion of an Australian Federal Police criminal history check,

and where relevant a Working with Children and Vulnerable People Check.
- Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where

required).
- Providing evidence of qualifications.

**Division Responsibilities**

The Health Economics and Research Division (HERD) is responsible for ensuring the health

evaluation, innovation, and use of data to develop and implement integrated, evidence
- based health policies.

Note: HERD has a presence in multiple states and territories and offers its employees

flexible working arrangements in locations and hours.

**Branch Responsibilities**

The Health Economics and Modelling Branch is responsible for developing a strategic

economic outlook across Australia’s health system, including medium to long term

sustainability, and identifying ways to improve value from health care and identify

opportunities to minimise waste.

The branch ensures transparency over cost, quality, and performance; and identifies funding

pressures and system reform initiatives. The Branch provides robust quantitative and

qualitative analysis of economic conditions and health economics impacts. The branch

provides specialised modelling, and advice to ensure that programs and policy take into

account economic and behavioural drivers, and the national and international environment.

The Branch is responsible for modelling reliable forward estimates and costings for all major

Commonwealth health and aged care programs. In addition, the Branch ensures the

accuracy, consistency and availability of routine policy and program data used by policy

areas.

**Section Responsibilities**

**Health Economics Section**

The Health Economics Section produces economic analysis on the current state of

Australia’s health sector in relation to the rest of the economy, its current trajectory and the

relevant risks to the economic outlook from contemporary health issues. This information is

used by policy areas in their advice provided to government, to drive the efficient and

effective allocation of funding.

The Section creates research reports and dashboards that present underlying evidence for

policy recommendations to inform policy decisions as well as policy pitches for the health

system. The Section also has responsibility for reviewing Foreign Investment Review Board

requests, advising on Health critical infrastructure, and participating in working groups,

advisory committees, reference groups and forums related to Health Economics.

**Estimates, Analytics and Modelling Section**

The Estimates, Analytics and Modelling Section is responsible for providing specialised

modelling and data analytics services widely used by budget, policy, and program areas

across the entire department. As a centralised modelling and data analytics capability, the

Estimates, Analytics and Modelling Section develops and maintains Budget Forward

Estimates models on MBS, PBS, PHI, Aged Care and Hospital to support budget process, as

well as a large range of policy scenario models to support health policy development and

design. The Section also applies advanced data analytics and develops visualisations to

derive insights from administrative data to help stakeholders identify budget and policy

issues and provide advice for evidence-based decision-making.

**Health System Modelling and Analytics Section**

The Health Syste