Executive Director

Job description

Agency Department of Children and Families Work unit Children and Families Program

Job title Executive Director Designation Executive Contract Officer 2

Job type Full time Duration Fixed for up to 4 years

Salary $247,170 Location Darwin

Position number 42682 RTF Closing 26/11/2025

Contact officer Rachelle McMillan on or

About the agency

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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 high-level expert advice and strategic leadership to the Children and Families Program and lead the reform agenda across commissioning,

operational implementation and evaluation to build and maintain a robust service system across the Territory. The role operates strategically and

operationally across the Northern Territory government, with the community services sector and with interstate jurisdictions and the Australian

Government to achieve the aims set out in the Northern Territory's and the National strategies, action plans and other related frameworks. The

role leads and participates in governance structures and the Strategy and Programs executive team to identify and create a joined systems response

to Territorians.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Oversee the development of the children and families program's strategic settings, the commissioning, implementation and evaluation of

services designed to meet the needs of local communities and improve the lives of children, youth and families.

2. Ensure alignment of the children and families program's strategies and operations to the Government's priorities and commitments set out in

relevant Territory and Commonwealth strategies, frameworks, actions plans and sector workforce development plans.

3. Lead strategic commissioning with a focus on robust, fair and accountable children and families grant management that ensures programs are

efficient, achieve outcomes and contribute to building Northern Territory evidence based on what works.

4. Lead stakeholder partnerships through formal governance and proactive working relationships to enable the design, implementation, and

continuous improvement of contemporary evidenced based programs through transparent communication, collaboration and engagement

through internal and external partnerships.

1. Cultivate networks and collaborative strategic partnerships across Territory and Australian Government and with external partners to achieve

Northern Territory Government's objectives.

1. Work with the Strategy and Programs Executive team to create efficiencies, joined up program responses across homelessness, domestic,

family and sexual violence and children and families, contribute to workforce development across the Department and represent Department

and/or Northern Territory Government in jurisdictional and national forums.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. Demonstrated high-level strategic, conceptual, analytical and innovation skills including the ability to manage and interpret the socio- political

and economic environments from a human services and social outcomes perspective.

2. Demonstrated experience in senior management and leadership level roles, including the effective use of governance, driving and achieving

strategic and operational objectives relating to social outcomes and human service delivery.

3. Demonstrated high level knowledge and experience in leadership, fiscal and people management to achieve high quality outcomes through

collaboration and partnerships with stakeholders and/or community service sectors.

4. Demonstrated experience in implementation of strategic objectives through operational planning, negotiation, project, program and grant

management, commissioning, and evidence-based decision making to achieve outcomes in complex environments.

5. Demonstrated exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with ability to work under pressure, build workforce technical and strategic

capabilities and operate in ambiguity with political acumen.

6. Demonstrated exceptional collaborative, negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to establish and sustain productive working

relationships and strategic alliances with sound professional judgement.

7. A high level of cross-cultural competency and awareness and demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and overseeing strategic

partnerships with Aboriginal organisations, people and communities to improve community outcomes.

Desirable

1. Relevant tertiary qualification.

2. Experience and knowledge of family support and statutory child protection services and/or program management.

Further information

The successful applicant must hold a valid Working with Children's Card and have completed an Australian Criminal History check within the last

two years.