Assistant Director, Planning and Performance

Executive Level 1
Canberra, ACT
$125,220 - $138,3+4
About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’– where our people reflect our purpose.

The Role
The External Budgets, Strategy and Performance Branch supports and delivers strategic policy thinking, budget priorities, corporate planning and performance. As trusted advisers we engage across DEWR, the APS and our ministers to support government decision-making, maintaining strategic awareness and developing positions on emerging and complex policy issues.

The Planning and Performance team is responsible for leading, coordinating and delivering whole of department planning and non-financial performance monitoring. The team’s work includes stewardship of the Commonwealth Performance Framework within the department, driving the setting of the department’s performance measures and business planning process, publishing the department’s Corporate Plan and Annual Report, as well as supporting Australian National Audit Office audits of the department’s performance statements.

This process may be used to fill multiple positions, in addition to establishing a merit pool to fill future vacancies.

Duties and Responsibilities
Working with the director and the team, you will be responsible for one or more of the following, as well as supporting the broader team on:

Overseeing and managing the ANAO audit of the department’s Annual Performance Statements
Providing support and advice on the application of the planning and performance aspects of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, and the Enterprise Performance Framework, and contributing to the continued maturation of planning and performance within the department
Support the development and implementation of corporate and business planning, annual reporting, and non-financial performance information
Drafting regular performance reports and briefings to the Executive Board, our Ministers, and governance committees
Supporting assurance and evaluation activities in line with the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act and Rule, relevant Commonwealth frameworks and best practice
How to Apply
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 750 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:
upload a Curriculum Vitae
provide contact details for 2 Referees.
Eligibility

Don’t meet all the role requirements?
At DEWR we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and seek to recruit staff with a wide range of backgrounds, skill levels, disciplines and working styles. If this role resonates with you and you are excited about making an impact, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Citizenship - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

Security Clearance - our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.
 
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