Aps 6 - Procurement and Contracting Assurance Lead

6 days ago


Canberra, Australia Australian Government Full time

$91,702 - $104,753 + up to 15.4% Superannuation
- Brindabella Park - ACT

**The Role**
The Procurement and Contracting Assurance Lead plays a crucial role in assuring Defence’s procurement and contract management practices, to support groups and services to improve compliance and performance.

This will be achieved through undertaking a variety of assurance activities, including deep dives, spot checks, health checks and data monitoring. Resulting in the identification of focus areas for improvement and reporting outcomes to senior leaders across Defence.

As part of the team, you will drive the planning, execution and reporting of assurance activities across Defence procurement and contract management processes. Utilising a range of techniques and data sources, you will assist with developing and undertaking complex assurance activities, including compliance and performance reviews, conducting root cause analysis and proposing actions to remediate identified issues.

Further, this role will be involved with stakeholder engagement across groups and services to support senior executive’s awareness of any reported non-compliance and any resultant remediation required.

**About our Team**
The Procurement and Contracting Assurance (PCA) Team is an exciting new function being established within the Commercial Division of Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group.

PCA is responsible for liaison and coordination across all Defence Groups and Services, to action the assurance activities within the Defence Procurement and Contracting Assurance Framework and endorsed program of work. This function aims to improve procurement and contracting compliance and performance while also reducing the risk to Defence.

This is a high profile function with responsibility to produce regular reporting to executive committees on data driven compliance monitoring and outcomes of activities. In this team, you will have oversight of the multi-billion dollar portfolio of complex, high-profile procurement activities to support the ADF.

Due to the high profile nature of this function, we are seeking enthusiastic individuals who pride themselves on delivering to a high standard with excellent attention to detail.
- Experienced with the requirements of the Commonwealth Procurement Policy Framework;
- Highly motivated and solutions focused, able to work in a collaborative team environment to achieve shared objectives;
- Experienced with leading a team to achieve results;
- An effective communicator, able to tailor their approach, with well-developed written and verbal skills;
- Trustworthy, transparent and possesses the highest level of integrity; and
- Able to engage with stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds and levels of seniority.

If you are high performing, enjoy stakeholder engagement and can lead a team to achieve outcomes, this is the job for you



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