Company Secretary

**Position Overview**:

- Ongoing | Full Time | Salary commensurate with experience | 15.4% super
- Sutherland Shire location | generous leave provisions | pool, cafe, childcare centre, free onsite parking
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangements available
- Support high-level governance by ensuring the smooth operation of ANSTO’s Board and subsidiary boards as Company Secretary

**About the Opportunity**:
The Company Secretary is to perform company secretarial responsibilities for the ANSTO Board of Directors and the Boards of Directors of ANSTO’s subsidiaries, and their respective board committees (ANSTO Boards), and to ensure their effective and efficient operations.

This includes compliance responsibilities, such as managing board processes and ensuring the ANSTO Boards comply with statutory obligations under applicable laws, as well as undertaking any legal responsibilities of the company secretary required under the Corporations Act or PGPA Act.

This role also encompasses providing support on performance responsibilities of the ANSTO Boards and ensuring that the practices of the ANSTO Boards is consistent with good practice standards in corporate governance, high standards of integrity, and supports the fulfilment of director duties.

**About You**:
"_We are looking for someone with exceptional experience and capability who can bring a continuous improvement and collaboration mindset to the role, and has a strong desire to contribute ideas and curiosity to the workplace_" - **Felicity Dougherty, ANSTO General Counsel**

**Your Duties and Responsibilities**:
To be successful for this role, you will need to have the following skills and experience. Please provide a short cover letter that explains to us how you have these, and give examples (where appropriate).
- Degree or higher qualification in law.
- Formal company secretarial training from the Governance Institute of Australia or equivalent
- Extensive experience as a company secretary in a public entity or an Australian company of at least medium to large size.
- Demonstrated ability to translate governance theory into appropriate policies, processes and frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to deal diplomatically and tactfully with a wide range of diverse stakeholders
- Demonstrated strong professional ethics and integrity
- Demonstrated strong organisational, analytical and problem-solving ability
- Demonstrated high level communication and planning skills with the capacity to influence key decision-makers

This role will require you to have exceptional care and diligence with the accuracy, integrity and quality of work undertaken, and be able to work within sometimes short timeframes - to meet Board requirements and cycles of meetings. You will need to work closely and collaboratively with our Chief Executive Officer, other Executive, and our Board and Board Committee members as well as other General Managers. Leadership and collaborative working skills are critical to this role.

**About Us**:
**Working with us you will enjoy**:
ANSTO offers training and development, performance-based salary increases and an extensive range of leave provisions to help employees balance work and personal commitments.
- 18 days personal/carers leave for each year of service
- 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
- Generous parental leave provisions:
- 18 weeks Parental leave for primary caregiver
- 11 weeks Parental leave for secondary caregiver (with incremental increase to a maximum of 18 weeks effective 01/03/2027)
- Annual flu vaccinations
- Cultural, Naidoc and First Nations ceremonial leave

**How to Apply**:
For further technical information relating to this position please refer to the Position Description or contact Felicity Dougherty +61 2 9717 9550. For all other queries please contact Talent Acquisition on +61 (02) 9717 9361.

To be eligible for appointment, applicants will require a security and pre-employment medical assessment.

**Application closing date: 11:59pm 18 August 2025**

**_ All applicants must be Australian citizens._