El2: Director, Divisional Support Unit

Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

EL2:
Director, Divisional Support Unit

Canberra ACT, Various locations - NT NT, Various locations - SA SA, Various locations - TAS TAS, Various locations in NSW NSW, various locations in QLD QLD, various locations in VIC VIC, Various locations in WA WA

The key duties of the position include:

We are seeking experienced candidates to fill various roles of Director, Divisional Support Unit (DSU) in a number of divisions within the department.
The Director supports the First Assistant Secretary and their division by providing executive support and oversight/management of all divisional business and corporate related activities, including coordination of:
corporate coordination requests, governance, administered budget and reporting, business planning, recruitment, performance and annual reporting, and senate estimates preparation, briefing and questions on notice. The Director engages extensively with the corporate areas of the department, and provides quality assurance and ensures consistency across the division on its corporate obligations.
Leading the DSU will provide you with the opportunity for direct exposure to Senior Executives and the breadth of departmental programs, policy and regulation. You will gain valuable experience in enabling services to further enhance your career and the opportunity to use your governance, human resource, financial and/or coordination expertise to support the team to deliver high quality services to the division.
You will establish and embed processes, practices and tools to operationalise corporate policies and procedures in the division. You will lead a small team to build a service focused culture to meet the needs to the Senior Executive and division. To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced in, or the ability to quickly learn, government financial processes to oversee the division's administered budget while collaborating with the Finance Business Partner in managing departmental budgets. While the focus of your work is within the division, you will have an outward view, and establish networks across divisions and corporate areas.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for high performing leaders with a blend of strategic facilitation, co-ordination and administration skills. Experience in finance, human resources, executive or ministerial support and/or enabling services would be highly regarded, with the ability to contribute to embedding a service focused culture in supporting the division to deliver on its priorities. You will need to have the ability to ensure Senior Executives are provided the information required to make decisions in a timely manner, a collaborative approach to working with colleagues and an ability to support change management.

To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

• Achieve results and quality outcomes by showing initiative, flexibility and the ability to work autonomously, to deliver multiple activities at any given time, often within tight timeframes.
• Communicate effectively both written and verbal, delivering information in a variety of formats for a range of audiences.
• Collaborate across diverse teams, using your exceptional interpersonal and engagement skills to engage with Senior Executives and a wide variety of stakeholders, valuing different perspectives, contributions and backgrounds.
• Think strategically, evaluating complex information from a variety of sources to make connections and prepare sound advice by exercising good judgement.
• Professionalism, personal drive and integrity, including demonstrated ability to take responsibility and achieve objectives in challenging circumstances.

We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply.

Eligibility requirements

Employment with the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts is subject to conditions prescribed within the Public Service Act 1999 including:

• Citizenship:
  To be eligible for employment with the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts applicants must be an Australian citizen.
• Health Assessment:
  The preferred applicant may be required to undergo a medical examination conducted by the department's preferred medical provider.
• Security Clearance:
  The successful candidate must be able to obtain and/or maintain a security clearance at Baseline Vetting Level. You must be willing to disclose all relevant and required information. You must have lived in Australia, or have a checkable background, for at least the preceding five years for Baseline Vetting clearances. More information on the security clearance vetting process is available on the Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) website .

Notes

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Getting to know the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

Our work connects and enriches every Australian community, underpins our economy and society, and empowers our regions. We provide strategic policy advice, fit-for-purpose regulation, and deliver programs, projects and services in the major infrastructure, transport, communications and arts sectors, supporting our regions, cities and territories.Our staff have the opportunity to work on high profile and diverse national projects that have a meaningful impact on the lives of all Australians. We seek people with a wide range of skills and competencies. Whether you write policy, deliver programs, projects or corporate services, or have experience in research, data or technology, we look for employees who are innovative, respectful and professional.We are an inclusive employer and promote, value and support diversity among our employees with the aim of ensuring our workforce reflects, respects and benefits from diverse communities including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with cultural and linguistic diversity, people with disability and LGBTQI+ people. We are committed to achieving gender equality and, in particular, supporting women's progression into senior leadership.Our values outline the characteristics, behaviours and professional capabilities we seek in our workforce:
- Collaborative - we work together and with others across the system, to achieve our objectives and deliver for the Australian community. - Respectful - we create diverse teams and a respectful and inclusive culture that supports high performance, innovation and the wellbeing of all people across the department. - Informed - we have the expertise, knowledge and skills that we need to succeed, and we have good communication practices. - Adaptive - we are constantly learning and adapting to improve what we do and we have corporate systems in place to support staff in a rapidly changing world. - Accountable - we are rewarded and trusted to deliver, we are held accountable for the results and delivering with integrity, and we celebrate our success.