Senior Governance Officer

The Senior Governance Officer plays a vital team role to ensure the smooth operation of the secretariat function for key corporate committees, subcommittee's and working groups.

Client Details

The Governance team deliver high quality governance and secretariat services to support the dept achieve effective and efficient decision making. The Senior Governance Officer plays a vital team role to ensure the smooth operation of the secretariat function for key corporate committees, subcommittee's and working groups.

Description

• Assist the Assistant Director in the provision of Governance services to the agency to ensure the agency satisfies its legislative obligations under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 and all related policy and guidelines.
• Provision of secretariat services to the key committees in the AEC's governance framework including, quality review of papers submitted for each meeting, management of Action Registers and development of meeting minutes.
• Drafting of strategic reports and briefing papers on complex issues for presentation to the committees that form the dept governance framework.
• Provide analysis on complex issues and contribute to the management, preparation and coordination of policy formulation and/or project management.
• Developing and supporting key internal and external relationships, including managing stakeholders to achieve work area and agency goals.
• Provide accurate specialist advice, guidance and reporting on team functional responsibilities.
• Make and communicate decisions using good judgement, expertise and knowledge, governed by legislation, regulations, best practice principles or relevant operating instructions and procedures.
• May be required to supervise a team to ensure high quality outputs, including the development of team members at lower classifications, building team capacity and encouraging career development.

Profile

• Adherence to the:
  • APS Values and Code of Conduct;
  • Australian Citizen
  • Negative Vetting 1
  • • Be familiar with, abide by and promote dept work health and safety frameworks, policies and procedures, including but not limited to:
      • Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy;
      • WHS Due Diligence Framework;
      • Fatigue Management and Prevention Policy; and
      • Rehabilitation management system (RMS).

Job Offer

An exciting opportunity is available to work in the Parliamentary, Governance and Assurance section supporting the operations of our core governance committees.

The section brings together three critical functions that support the agency to deliver services to the portfolio ministers and Parliament; govern with structure and integrity; and have confidence that business activities achieve objectives.

We play an important role in the upholding the integrity of our operations and we are committed to providing high quality support to our internal and external stakeholders