Senior Associate, AI Governance and Operations

Queensland Treasury Corporation; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development program

Flexible work

Study support

Paid parental leave

Salary packaging

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Queensland Treasury Corporation in Brisbane seeks a Senior Associate, AI Governance and Operations to shape responsible AI adoption and governance while managing day-to-day governance processes.

You’ll oversee intake and triage, coordinate privacy, security, compliance reviews, maintain governance registers and provide practical guidance to stakeholders. Background in governance, risk, assurance or technology operations is valued.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience operating within a governance, risk, compliance, assurance or other regulated environment.
• Experience managing an intake, case queue or multiple concurrent matters.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with experience gathering requirements and translating complex information into clear actions.
• Strong record-keeping across registers, inventories or governance records.
• Ability to assess information, identify risk and escalate when needed.
• Strong stakeholder skills and the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Experience preparing assessments or reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Microsoft 365 capability and understanding how technology, permissions and data access fit together.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI intake and triage process and ensure proper registration and escalation.
• Coordinate assessments across privacy, security, compliance, legal, model and risk.
• Maintain AI governance registers, inventories and evidence for audit readiness.
• Manage multiple concurrent AI governance matters with stakeholders.
• Support governance of AI agents, including ownership, attestations and lifecycle monitoring.
• Undertake first-pass assessments of vendor and platform changes with data access considerations.
• Prepare clear assessment materials and governance papers for senior forums.
• Provide practical first-line AI governance guidance and improve processes.
• Monitor emerging AI trends and translate insights into practical governance actions.

Skills

Governance

Risk management

Compliance

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Tools

Microsoft 365

Power Platform

Dynamics 365

Purview

Entra

Defender

Azure AI

Databricks

Job description

Senior Associate, AI Governance and Operations

Queensland Treasury Corporation – Brisbane QLD

1d ago , from Queensland Treasury Corporation

We’re looking for a Senior Associate, AI Governance and Operations to help shape how AI is responsibly adopted and governed across QTC, while operating and continuously improving our day-to-day AI governance processes.

Working closely with our Principal, AI Implementation, you’ll manage AI governance matters from initial intake and triage through assessment, specialist review, decision support and ongoing monitoring. You’ll help ensure AI initiatives are understood, appropriately assessed and supported by clear, audit-ready governance records.

This is a hands-on governance and operations role. It’s an opportunity to bring your experience in governance, risk, assurance, business analysis or technology operations into one of the fastest evolving areas of enterprise technology.

What you’ll do

You’ll play a key role in the practical operation and continuous improvement of QTC’s AI governance framework, including:

• Own the AI intake and triage process, ensuring matters are appropriately registered, assessed, progressed and escalated.
• Coordinate assessments and specialist input across privacy, security, compliance, legal, model and enterprise risk.
• Maintain QTC’s AI governance registers, inventories and evidence, ensuring records are accurate, traceable and audit-ready.
• Manage multiple concurrent AI governance matters, keeping stakeholders informed and actions progressing through to closure.
• Support the governance of AI agents, including ownership, registration, attestations, remediation and lifecycle monitoring.
• Undertake first-pass assessments of vendor and platform changes, considering access, permissions, data handling, functionality and monitoring.
• Prepare clear assessment materials, governance papers and reporting for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Provide practical first-line AI governance guidance and help improve processes, controls, templates and supporting materials.
• Proactively monitor emerging AI trends, technologies and industry developments, translating relevant insights into practical implications for QTC’s AI governance approach.

About you

You don’t need to be an AI engineer, developer or architect.

What matters is that you know how to make governance work in practice. You can take a request, identify what information is missing, ask the right questions, understand requirements, apply an established framework and bring the right people together to progress an outcome.

Your background could be in governance, risk and compliance, technology risk, PMO, business analysis, assurance or Microsoft platform governance.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Demonstrated experience operating within a governance, risk, compliance, assurance or other regulated environment.
• Experience managing an intake, case queue or multiple concurrent matters.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with experience gathering requirements, asking the right questions and translating complex information into clear, practical actions.
• Strong record-keeping discipline across registers, inventories, evidence repositories or other formal governance records.
• The ability to assess information, identify risk and recognise when specialist input or escalation is needed.
• Strong stakeholder skills and the confidence to constructively challenge and influence without direct authority.
• Experience preparing assessments, briefings or reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Practical Microsoft 365 capability and the ability to quickly understand how technology, permissions and data access fit together.
• Curiosity about AI and emerging technology, with the initiative to continuously build your knowledge as the technology, risks and governance landscape evolve.
• The underlying role requirements include governance and assurance experience, management of multiple concurrent matters, disciplined governance records, senior stakeholder reporting and Microsoft 365 capability.

A working knowledge of Microsoft 365, Power Platform or Dynamics 365 will be highly regarded.

Exposure to technologies such as Purview, Entra, Defender, Fabric, Azure AI or Databricks would also be valuable, but we don’t expect you to be an expert across every platform.

You’ll ideally understand the fundamentals of Responsible AI and AI risk, including concepts such as human oversight and transparency, as well as risks including hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage and inappropriate reliance.

Familiarity with generative AI, copilots or AI agents will help you quickly understand the types of requests you’ll be governing. The role requires a functional understanding of these technologies, including areas such as grounding, permissions, connectors and action capability.

Knowledge of ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 27001 or information governance frameworks would be advantageous but isn’t essential.

If you bring strong transferable governance, business analysis or technology capability, combined with a genuine curiosity about AI and how it can be responsibly adopted, we want to hear from you.

Build the future with QTC:

QTC is the central financing authority for the Queensland Government and provides financial resources and services for the State. We manage the State’s funding program in the global capital markets to deliver sustainable and cost-effective borrowings for the Queensland Government, local governments, and other related entities (our clients). We do work that improves Queensland for generations. We are a leader in finance, creating meaningful solutions with profound outcomes. We set the standard in financial solutions. We address the challenges of today, with results for tomorrow.

Benefit from a best-in-class professional development program, flexible work, leadership programs, study support, paid-parental leave, salary packaging and a corporate wellbeing program (including discounts for you and your family to a range of fitness facilities close to home or work).

At QTC we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We havean equitable, barrier-free application process so please inform us of any accessibility requirements in your application or you can reach out to our Talent Team*******@QTC.com.au