Director, Risk and Assurance | Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency

ACT; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

ABW (Activity-based Working)

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

ACT Government in Canberra is seeking a Director, Risk and Assurance to lead strategic risk and assurance activities across a complex portfolio of major infrastructure projects, including light rail, roads, and sport and recreation. You will provide trusted advice that supports decision-making, governance, and successful project delivery.

Reporting to the Senior Director, you will drive a proactive risk culture, oversee portfolio-wide risk reporting, coordinate assurance reviews, and work with

Qualifications

• Experience leading risk and assurance frameworks across large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive governance best practices.
• Strong analytical thinking and decision-making in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic risk and assurance activities across a portfolio of major infrastructure projects.
• Provide trusted risk advice to enable informed decision-making and successful delivery.
• Oversee risk reporting, assurance reviews and governance processes across the program.
• Identify emerging risks, monitor systemic issues and coordinate mitigation actions.
• Champion a proactive risk culture and collaborate with senior leaders and project teams.

Skills

Strategic risk

Assurance governance

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Change management

Communication

Job description

Director, Risk and Assurance
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency

Details: Join the Delivery - Transport and Civil Infrastructure (T&C) team and help shape some of Canberra's most significant infrastructure programs across light rail, roads, waste and sport and recreation.

As Director, Risk and Assurance, you will lead strategic risk and assurance activities across a complex portfolio of major infrastructure projects, providing trusted advice that supports informed decision-making, effective governance, program assurance and successful project delivery.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Program Delivery Office, you will drive a proactive risk culture, strengthen risk and assurance frameworks, oversee portfolio-wide risk reporting and assurance activities, and work closely with senior leaders, project teams and stakeholders across government. You will play a key role in identifying emerging risks, monitoring systemic issues, coordinating assurance reviews, and ensuring project and program risks are effectively managed to support delivery outcomes.

We're looking for a strategic and analytical leader with:

• Demonstrated experience in applying risk management, change management and quality assurance frameworks, including providing strategic and specific project controls advice.


• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to influence, liaise and negotiate effectively, in a professional manner, with a broad range of stakeholders, as well as the ability to work both collaboratively and independently.


• Proven experience in managing and guiding project teams to agree on priorities; working under pressure in a confidential environment; and ability to identify and implement new ideas, initiatives and systems.


• Demonstrated analytical thinking, particularly the ability to understand how complex issues integrate and to make decisions based on relevant experience and an understanding of the wider context.


• Demonstrated understanding and commitment to the ACT Government and iCBR Values framework, RED framework, WHS best practice and industrial democracy principles and practice.

Note: This is a temporary position available from 4 December 2026 until 8 October 2027 with the possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency.

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

Selection may be based on application and referee reports only.

Please note, this position is in a workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk.

Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT.

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 .

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Note

This is a temporary position available from 4 December 2026 until 8 October 2027 with the possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency.