Executive Officer

Job description

Agency Department of Health Work unit Office of the Chief Health Officer

Job title Executive Officer Designation Senior Administrative Officer 1

Job type Full time Duration Ongoing

Salary $128,551 - $143,611 Location Darwin

Position number 27796 RTF Closing 22/09/2025

Contact officer Adj Prof Paul Burgess on or

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APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY

QUALIFICATIONS.

Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans

The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with

disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss

this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.

Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the

OCPE website.

Primary objective

Provide sound advice, confidential, high-level executive, administrative, coordination and project support to the Chief Health Officer

(CHO) and the Public Health Division. The Executive Officer is the first point of contact for advice and information for the office of the

Chief Health Officer.

Context statement

The CHO has extensive statutory responsibilities under NT legislation and also serves as the General Manager of the Public Health

Division. This division encompasses key areas including Communicable Diseases, Emergency Management, Health Protection, Health

Statistics and Informatics and Non-Communicable Diseases. The successful applicant will demonstrate efficiency, adaptability, attention

to detail, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced executive environment with limited supervision.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Provide coordination, quality control and preparation of correspondence including Legislative Assembly Briefs, Ministerials, Cabinet

Submissions, general correspondence, reports, and presentations, ensuring responses within timelines.

2. Responsibility for meeting internal and external reporting obligations including coordinating the development of business plans,

budgets, human resourcing and corporate reporting requirements.

3. Undertake planning and management of projects identified by the CHO and provide recommendations that will inform and support

the implementation of identified Divisional priorities.

4. Summarise, synthesise and present complex reports, briefings and evidence-based advice.

1. Develop and maintain effective collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders at all levels, including

management.

1. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken to

ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. Demonstrated experience in providing high level executive services and support at the Executive level, including ability to identify

solutions and drive processes to meet corporate and strategic objectives.

2. Highly developed strategic, conceptual, analytical and collaborative skills including the ability to interpret and understand the business,

political and organisational environment and identify an emerging range of topics.

1. Proven organisational and interpersonal skills to manage multiple and competing priorities within critical time frames/deadlines while

maintaining quality control, within a busy and complex work environment.

4. Highly developed written communication with the ability to prepare and edit a wide range of ministerial and agency reports with a

high level of attention to detail.

5. Proven high-level initiative and motivation, ability to work autonomously, exercise discretion, maintain confidentiality, problem solve

and make appropriate decisions at the delegated level of responsibility.

Desirable

1. Knowledge of the health system at Territory/national levels and of current/emerging issues and initiatives and the associated political

and organisational environment.

Further information

Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and

criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant unless it is a relevant criminal history.