Assistant Team Leader, Qld Operations

Agency Purpose

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is an independent statutory authority established by the Australian Government to maintain an impartial and independent electoral system for eligible voters through active electoral roll management, efficient delivery of polling services, and targeted education and public awareness programs.

The AEC’s values and commitments

The AEC values and commitments are an essential component of our operating environment and frame how AEC staff work. The AEC's focus is on electoral integrity through the values of quality, agility and professionalism.

The Team

An exciting opportunity exists to join a small high performing team that supports, prepares, and delivers federal events, and manages business as usual administration, governance, and project work for two Federal electoral divisions in Queensland.  The team is based in the Gold Coast office and responsible for large scale state-based project delivery for electoral events.  Reporting to an APS6 Team Leader, you will be an active participant in the broader Queensland leadership team, modelling exceptional behaviours and contributing to our culture, business planning and deliverables.

During the delivery of events, staffing levels rapidly expand to help manage greatly increased workloads.  The team is fast-paced, dynamic, multifaceted, and project orientated.

Our leaders are committed to learning and self-development, and responsible for building the technical capability and fostering the career development of their employees.  They value collaboration and working together to ensure delivery of seamless electoral services.

The Opportunity

As an Assistant Team Leader, you will be responsible for planning and delivering major logistical events, setting expectations for the broader team, and preparing complex correspondence, reports, and reviews.

This role’s primary functions include managing and supporting all aspects of large-scale projects, managing a small team, which expands in size considerably during an event, and collaborating and communicating with key stakeholders.

During a federal event, you may act as an APS6 Divisional Returning Officer for one of Queensland’s thirty electoral divisions.  In this role, the Divisional Returning Officer’s primary responsibility is to deliver the election in their prescribed electorate.

To excel you’ll have:

• An agile attitude that is flexible, positive, innovative, motivated, and resilient.
• Demonstrated experience to meet immutable deadlines in a high performing environment.
• A willingness to support the team, remain positive and respond to pressure in a calm manner, while committing energy and drive to see that goals are achieved.
• Effective communication skills to collaborate and negotiate with team members, business areas and external stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
• Experience in successfully setting priorities and contributing to the delivery of medium to large sized projects and programs.

Eligibility

• AEC employees must be Australian citizens.
• Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs, and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.
• Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.
• Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the security clearance required for this role.