Director of Election Operations & Delivery

Queensland Government; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Government is seeking a Director, Election Event Planning, Delivery & Operations to lead the end-to-end delivery of election events across multiple channels. You will shape operational strategy, advise senior leadership, and ensure robust governance, risk management and readiness across planning, delivery and logistics functions.

You will drive resourcing, coordination and readiness activities, oversee supplier relationships, and champion a culture of operational excellence within

Responsibilities

• Provide advice to the Executive Director, Electoral Commissioner and senior executives on election delivery strategy, operational preparedness, resource requirements and emerging risks.
• Lead end-to-end election event program management, owning the forward planning approach for all election event types and ensuring events are scoped, sequenced, resourced and tracked for readiness from initiation through to close-out.
• Accountable for the operational delivery of election events across all service channels, including industrial, by-election, local government and state government elections, owning delivery performance and ensuring services are executed to standard during live election periods.
• Lead event resourcing, mobilisation and readiness activities, coordinating preparedness across teams, managing dependencies and milestones, and overseeing rehearsal and readiness assurance to ensure ECQ is operationally ready for each election event.
• Ensure effective operational coordination between EEM and ECQ business units during election event delivery, managing escalations, resolving delivery issues and ensuring business unit services are integrated into live event operations.
• Lead supply chain and logistics management for election events, ensuring procurement, inventory, facilities and logistical arrangements are aligned to event requirements and that the operational supply chain reliably supports election execution at scale.
• Build strategic relationships with delivery partners, contracted suppliers and internal ECQ stakeholders, overseeing supplier performance and contract delivery to ensure the operational supply chain reliably meets event requirements.
• Lead and develop a high-performing operations and delivery team across planning, delivery, logistics and supply portfolios, role-modelling ECQ values, fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement, and supporting team development and performance to meet the demands of complex, time-sensitive election delivery.

Job description

Queensland Government is seeking a Director, Election Event Planning, Delivery & Operations to lead the end-to-end delivery of election events across multiple channels. You will shape operational strategy, advise senior leadership, and ensure robust governance, risk management and readiness across planning, delivery and logistics functions.

You will drive resourcing, coordination and readiness activities, oversee supplier relationships, and champion a culture of operational excellence within