Assistant Director, Assessments

ACT Integrity Commission; Canberra; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The ACT Integrity Commission is seeking an Assistant Director, Assessments to lead the Assessment team in Canberra. You will oversee workload, triage priority matters, and ensure timely, high-quality assessment outputs.

You will guide staff in preparing assessment reports and communications, proofread and edit key documents, and develop processes to optimize resources and operations. Australian citizenship and NV1-level security clearance sponsorship are required.

Qualifications

• Oversee workload of the Assessments team, triage priorities, and ensure timely handling of matters.
• Provide high-level guidance, direction and support to team members in preparing assessment reports and communications.
• Develop and implement processes to optimize team resources and operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage staff workload and triage priority matters for timely assessments.
• Proofread and edit assessment reports and other communications to ensure quality.
• Develop and implement processes that optimize the team's resources and efficiency.

Job description

Details

The ACT Integrity Commission (the Commission) is an independent integrity agency with powers under the Integrity Commission Act 2018 (the IC Act) to investigate, expose and prevent corruption and foster public confidence in the integrity of government.

Under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012 (the PID Act), the Commission is also responsible for receiving, assessing, referring, and investigating reports of disclosable conduct, deciding which reports are to be treated as Public Interest Disclosures (PIDs), and performing an oversight role of ACT public sector agencies in their management of PIDs.

The Assistant Director, Assessments will support the Senior Director in the overall management of the Assessment team in the delivery of the team’s functions.This includes:

• Managing staff workload, ensuring that priority matters are triaged and assessed in a timely fashion and that any backlogs are appropriately managed and mitigated.
• Providing high level guidance, direction and support to team members in the preparation of assessment reports and ensuring that appropriate standards of quality are met. This includes maintaining oversight of the more complex and time sensitive corruption reports, and proof reading and editing assessment reports and other communications,
• Developing and implementing processes and procedures that optimize the team’s resources and efficient operations.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/ Other Requirements

• The successful applicant must be an Australian citizen and possess, or acquire and maintain a security clearance at the NV1 level as an eligibility requirement for the position which will be sponsored by the ACT Integrity Commission. Further information about the clearance process can be found on the AGSVA website

Note

A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.