AddressWe are seeking candidates with a wide range of experience and a diverse skill mix, including:
- Proven track record of delivering outcomes, strong Communication and interpersonal skills in working in a dynamic and active risk management environment.
- Demonstrated ability to be a problem solver and identify opportunities and drive progress and process improvements.
- Demonstrated ability to provide direct advice, support and assurance to the Executives and Ministers.
The key duties of the position include
Assistant Director, Communication and Insights
The Communication and Insights position is situated in the Compliance Education Team. The Team plays a vital role in supporting the schools sector meet their funding obligations by designing and providing effective and impactful education, training, information products. Through the timely delivery of user-centred information, resources and communications, the department can assist the schools sector in better understanding its obligations.
The work is varied and fulfilling, and you will see the tangible outcomes of your work by helping the Department uplift the capacity and capability of the schools sector in meeting their requirements under the Act. The Team also manages the publication of Australian Government Schools Funding report under section 127 of the Act, and two programs: the Northern Territory Additional Payment and the Non-Government Schools Reform Fund (NGRSF).
The key deliverables include but are not limited to the following:
- Lead Communication and engagement delivery to support the department's assurance framework.
- Develop, coordinate, and deliver accessible and engaging written content informed by research, insights, and evaluation.
- Support the Director to build a shared vision and strategy for the assurance engagement, learning and communication internally and externally.
- Conduct trend analysis on stakeholder engagement across the sector and review feedback to gather insights, and to build lessons learnt and recommendations for actions.
- Lead and design the dissemination of tools and resources that clearly and concisely communicate requirements and build awareness across the sector and support the evaluation activities to gain insights and build lesson learnt into future policy considerations.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with impacted internal and external stakeholders.
- Quality assure the work outputs of the team and report on team progress against set targets to the Director and other executive leaders.
- Initiate, lead, and plan collaboration with other work units across the Branch and Division, including subject matter experts, to deliver education and awareness products.
- Lead and deliver program management including preparation for program closure activities, assuring program documentation/record-keeping, manage risks and sensitivities, and finalise briefs, minutes, and correspondence for a broad range of audience.
Assistant Director, Recurrent Funding Assurance
We are seeking an Assistant Director to lead a team that works collaboratively across the Funding and Data Collection Division to develop, administer, and improve the assurance of Commonwealth school funding provided under the Act. As an EL1 in the team, you will manage the implementation of the annual Census Post-Enumeration (Census PE) exercise which reviews non-government schools' self-reported Census data.
The key deliverables include but are not limited to the following:
- Implement the annual Census PE and Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD) quality assurance activities with robust and defensible risk management.
- Leading the design, delivery, and implementation of relevant assurance activities.
- Build productive and positive stakeholder engagement and sector capacity to participate in assurance activities.
- Oversight of procurement and contract management processes
- Responding to regular and ad hoc requests
- Drafting draft briefings and advice to Ministers, Executive and Key Internal and External Stakeholders.
