Assistant Director, Conveyance Policy

EL 1 - $120,290 - $129,379 per annum plus superannuation
- Biosecurity Operations Division
- Adelaide, SA,Brisbane, QLD,Canberra, ACT,Melbourne, VIC,Perth, WA,Sydney, NSW
- _Protect Australia's animal, plant and human health from biosecurity risks posed by international air and sea conveyances._
- _Work in a remote, professional team of biosecurity professionals._
- _flexible working options._

**Who we are**
**Biosecurity Operations Division** delivers nationally integrated biosecurity and imported food regulatory activities to ensure goods, conveyances and travellers meet Australia's import requirements. Division operations include policy and regulatory control setting across imported food and biosecurity risk pathways, as well as the delivery of assessment, inspection, community engagement and contact centre services. The division also partners with industry to improve the delivery of regulatory functions. The division spans a range of regulatory activities that plays a critical role in reducing risk and shaping our nation to become one of the few countries in the world to remain free from the world’s most severe pests and diseases.

**Cargo & Conveyance Policy & Detection Capability** is responsible for determining, developing, and enabling the strategies, regulatory frameworks, tactics, and interventions that manage biosecurity and other risks within the transport and trade pathways into Australia. This pathway brings together how the department detects and responds to biosecurity risk and non-compliance, including through deploying surveillance and verification tools and capabilities such as detector dog teams and x-rays. The branch sets operational policy for the biosecurity clearance of all air and sea cargo, conveyances and ports, seasonal pests, and policy assessment related matters.

**The Conveyance Policy Section** are responsible for establishing the operational policy, administrative rules, and legislative framework for arriving international air and sea conveyances and administering operational biosecurity and human health controls relevant to those conveyances. This extends to reforming and operationalising policy into workable instructions, ensuring they are fit for purpose, lawful and manage biosecurity risk.

**The Job**
The duties of the role may include:

- Leading and managing a team delivering regulatory policy located in geographically dispersed locations.
- Building capability of a team through coaching, performance feedback, conflict resolution and career development.
- Engaging and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities, achieve outcomes and facilitate cooperation.
- Undertaking strategic planning to meet business objectives in line with sound decision making.
- Effectively managing competing priorities including delivering on complex project outcomes.
- Managing and developing well-researched policy and complex policy advice.
- Preparing corporate reports, briefing papers, Ministerial correspondence, and discussion papers.
- Leading and contributing to strategic planning to meet business objectives and deliver departmental outcomes.
- Fostering a culture of safety, diversity, inclusiveness, positivity, and high performance.
- Promoting the APS Values, the APS Employment Principles and compliance with the Code of Conduct.

**Skills and Capabilities**
The successful applicant will ideally have:

- Excellent stakeholder relationship skills and the ability to work collaboratively with business representatives, departmental senior executive and government agencies to design and deliver contemporary, professional, and efficient outcomes.
- The ability to professionally communicate with a range of different people in a regulatory environment.
- The ability to work collaboratively and effectively as part of a team and with a broad range of stakeholders.
- The ability to gather, understand and interpret complex technical information, problem solve complex issues and make a judgement on the next course of action, particularly as it relates to the interpretation of legislation, regulations, and guidelines.
- The ability to prioritise tasks, adapt to changing priorities and make effective use of individual and team capabilities to ensure delivery standards are met.
- The ability to facilitate and support a positive team environment and create a dynamic, flexible, and collegiate workplace.

**Knowledge and experience**
The successful applicant will ideally have:

- Experience in leading, managing and supporting staff to work collaboratively in a challenging, complex, and fast paced operational environment.
- Knowledge or an understanding of the department’s role in delivering national biosecurity operations including knowledge of relevant legislation.
- Experience in implementing change and managing ambiguity in the workplace.
- Experience in the effective coaching and mentoring of staff.
- Experience in financial management including budget devel