Performance Planning and Reporting Officers, Aps

**Job no**: 512416

**Employment type**: Non-Ongoing - Specified Term, Ongoing

**Location**: Canberra

**Categories**: APS Level 6, Administration, Project Management, Data

**About the department**:
The department plays a key role in the Australian Government’s agenda to create jobs and build a stronger, more resilient and competitive economy. Our work builds on Australia’s existing strengths, supports businesses to grow, and drives new opportunities for long-term productivity growth and prosperity. The success of the department helps Australia recover from the economic consequences of COVID‑19 and adapt to its ongoing effects. Through our work, we support the government’s economic recovery plan and help to deliver a better future for all Australians.

**About the team**:
The Ministerial and Executive Enabling Branch provides a range of support and assistance to the Executive and our Ministers. This includes the planning and reporting framework required under relevant legislation, parliamentary and Cabinet support, governance support, internal audit, enterprise risk management and fraud and corruption control. It is at the heart of the department and enables Ministers, the Executive and broader department to achieve outcomes.

The Planning and Reporting team sits within this branch and plays an important role in ensuring that the department fulfils its obligations under the _Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013_ (PGPA Act) in relation to the Corporate Plan, Commonwealth Performance Framework and the Annual Report.

We collaborate across our department’s divisions and work closely with our senior executive and internal and external stakeholders to:

- deliver our reporting framework, performance measures and processes
- provide assurance for the Annual Performance Statements
- oversee the departments’ divisional business planning process
- deliver the Corporate Plan and Annual Report.

**What’s in it for you?**

You will have an important role within the branch. You will engage with stakeholders across the department and drive organisational change through the critical functions delivered by the teams. You will work with senior stakeholders within the department and build relationships across department and the APS. You will work with an efficient, motivated and people-oriented team and will be involved in impactful branch and division-wide coordination and delivery.
- strong coordination capabilities: We are looking for, energetic and proactive team members who can prioritise effectively and work to tight timeframes. They will see tasks through to completion, producing high quality work while working in a dynamic and complex environment. They will also need to be resilient to change, uncertainty and shifting priorities.
- a strong teamwork orientation: They will be willing to go the extra mile to help team members through work peaks. They will be committed to maintaining and building a great team culture, where we work hard but also take the time to celebrate our achievements.
- well-developed communication skills: They will have excellent verbal and written communication skills. They will be able to synthesise complex technical information into succinct and simple to understand advice, plans, briefs and reports. They will tailor these products to their intended audiences, including managers, collaborators, the senior executive and ministers.
- excellent stakeholder engagement abilities: They will be able to cultivate and maintain effective professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. They will also provide exceptional service to our stakeholders.

**What you will do**:

- the corporate plan
- business plans
- quarterly performance statements and commitment reporting
- the annual report - including the annual performance statements
- the performance information in the portfolio budget statements.
- Your work will include:_
- project planning for the corporate plan, annual report, etc
- helping lead the continuous improvement and reform of the department’s performance framework, performance measures, processes and deliverables - this will include producing advice for our executive on best practice approaches
- working with all divisions across the department to manage performance information input and develop our departmental narrative for planning and reporting documents
- preparing briefing papers for the department’s Executive Board and committees
- preparing briefing papers for our ministers on our planning and reporting products
- proactively managing progress of coordination and significant documents you are responsible for, identifying and escalating emerging issues early.

**Eligibility**:
**Notes**:
We aim to fill multiple ongoing APS 6 positions. A merit pool may be established to fill future ongoing and non-ongoing APS 6 vacancies should they become available within 18 months from the date the vacancy was first advertised_. _