Senior ICT Specialist Workforce Planner

One of our 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 clients is looking for 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐂𝐓 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 in 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚.

Role: Senior ICT Specialist Workforce Planner - (APS6 Level)

Location of work: Canberra

Length of contract: 09 months

Contract extensions: 24 months extension (two extensions of twelve months each)

Security clearance: Must have Baseline security clearance

Job details

Workforce Planning professionals develop policies, guidelines and strategies related to management of an organisation's workforce. They identify, analyse and monitor the current and future workforce needs of an organisation and develop strategies to close the gap between the two states.

Key duties and responsibilities

The Specified Personnel will be responsible for providing the following deliverables including but not limited to:

• Conducting workforce supply analysis by assessing existing workforce capability and identify underutilized/Overstretched resources and skill gaps.
• Developing and maintaining a branch level workforce demand plan by forecasting resourcing needs of both APS and contracted staff for upcoming and inflight ICT projects across the TOS branch;
• Developing and maintaining a program level workforce skills and capability matrix by mapping the current branch workforce against our required capabilities to inform hiring and training priorities;
• Developing and maintaining a program level workforce allocation schedule by mapping resources to specific projects, phases and timeframes, actively highlight resourcing conflicts, overlaps, and under/overcapacity periods;
• Developing and maintaining executive reporting packs and workforce dashboards for senior leadership showing resource allocations, upcoming shortages, contractor usage and vacancy risk;
• Provide insights to support resource prioritization and funding decisions.

Specified Personnel will be expected to transfer skills and knowledge to departmental staff and ensure appropriate documentation is stored in accordance with the Department's recordkeeping policy and practices.

The Specified Personnel will also be responsible for producing the following deliverables, including but not limited to:

• Resouces onboard and off boarding tracking
• Workforce planning toolkit and templates
• Resourcing review reports
• Work plans;
• Schedules.

All deliverables performed by the specified personnel must:

1. be performed or delivered promptly and without delay in accordance with the timeframes notified by the buyer from time to time; and
2. meet the assessment and performance criteria set out in any monitoring and performance assessment processes notified to the seller from time to time.

Technical skills

Power BI, Data Analysis, Forecasting, ICT resource identification and mapping

Essential criteria

1. Workforce Optimisation level 3 - Strategically plan and manage the workplace environment to support workforce productivity and efficiency, and support cultural change

2. Workforce and Organisational Strategy Formulation level 3 - Develop workforce plans and programs in support of organisational strategies.

3. Workforce Analysis & Insights level 3 - Manage complex data analyses and workforce research/ experiments. Align requirements to organisational needs to draw and present relevant business insights to address organisational risks and needs.

4. Strategic Workforce Planning level 3 - Build the workforce planning function in the organisation. Develop the organisation's workforce planning capability. Drive workforce strategies within the organisation.

5. Occupational/Job Segmentation level 4 - Identifies critical objectives to inform workforce planning by identifying and addressing high risks/ gaps in future vs. current roles. Contributes expert knowledge across the organisation in relation to occupational segmentation.

6. Business Acumen level 2 - Implement workforce programs and activities in alignment with business priorities and strategies. Understand how the program impacts and interacts with other areas of the business.

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