Assistant Director, Assessments | Full-time Permanent

Australian Capital Territory; Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The ACT Integrity Commission in Canberra seeks an Assistant Director, Assessments to lead the Assessment team, manage workloads and ensure timely triage of complex corruption reports.

You will provide high level guidance, oversee report quality, and implement efficient processes to optimise resources while supporting an inclusive public service.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead a team and manage workloads.
• Experience with assessment/report quality control in public sector.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Assessment team under the Senior Director.
• Triaged and prioritised backlog to ensure timely assessments.
• Provide guidance and proof-reading of assessment reports and other communications.
• Develop and implement processes to optimise team resources and operations.

Skills

Staff management

Quality assurance

Report writing

Job description

Assistant Director, Assessments
Full-time Permanent

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 theAGSVA website

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

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal .