Food Safety Response Officer

About us

At Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), we develop world-leading standards to ensure a safe food supply for Australia and New Zealand. We do so by maintaining an effective, transparent and accountable regulatory framework. Our work includes analytical and behavioural research, the development of industry standards, food incident response, education and public awareness, and corporate services. This work is essential for protecting consumers and dealing with the challenges of a globalised and rapidly evolving food sector. FSANZ is a small agency with a specialised workforce. As the only bi-national agency in the Australian public sector, we have the unique opportunity to work across both Australia and New Zealand. To support our varied work, FSANZ engages employees from an array of specialist backgrounds, including scientific, technical and corporate staff.

Qualifications & experience

• To be eligible you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen at the time of applying.
• Desirable Experience in the food regulatory system. Experience working with databases.

Tasks & responsibilities

• The duties of this position include:
• Undertaking day to day incident response and food recall activities, including managing incident/recall email inboxes, undertaking project work, and responding to enquires.
• Engaging with stakeholders on food incident and food recall activities, including coordinating international notifications as required.
• Supporting the coordination of response activities under the National Food Incident Response Protocol, including providing secretariat support.
• Coordinating national food recalls in Australia, and maintaining procedural guidelines, team SharePoint sites, after-hours rosters and timesheets, public webpages and data/records management systems.
• Providing secretariat support to various meetings, including drafting agendas, papers and minutes.
• Providing input into the preparation of papers and reports on food incidents and food recalls for FSANZ and other government agencies, industry stakeholders and Ministers.
• Some out of hours work to coordinate national food recalls.

Benefits

• In order to apply, you need to submit your application through the FSANZ careers portal. The portal will guide you through the application process and describe what information is required from you.
• Questions regarding the opportunity should be directed to the position contact.
• Name: Adele Yates, (Food Safety Response Manager), Communication, Engagement and Response Email address: ***********@foodstandards.gov.au Phone number: (02) 6271 2***
• If you require further information, please email ***************@foodstandards.gov.au.