Senior Recruitment Advisor

Australian Energy Regulator; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) is seeking a Senior Recruitment Advisor to lead the AER Recruitment Team, ensuring systems, practices and guidance support recruitment across the agency. You will apply APS recruitment expertise and deliver services that enable hiring managers to meet strategic goals.

Key duties include managing day-to-day recruitment activities, system administration, stakeholder collaboration, and guiding onboarding and offers.

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment within the APS framework.
• Ability to advise and influence managers on recruitment matters.
• Strong client service and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Recruitment Team’s day-to-day activities and provide guidance to hiring managers.
• Advertise and promote employment opportunities and administer the online recruitment system (TechnologyOne).
• Prepare and issue offers; support onboarding and position establishment; coordinate merit lists and transfers.
• Collaborate to enhance recruitment configuration in the ERP system and develop recruitment plans to deliver strategic capabilities.

Skills

Recruitment expertise

Stakeholder management

APS recruitment framework

Team leadership

Tools

TechnologyOne

Job description

As the Senior Recruitment Advisor you will manage the AER Recruitment Team’s day-to-day activities. This includes ensuring the appropriate systems, practices, tools and guidance are available to Recruitment Team members and the AER’s hiring managers. You will apply your specialist knowledge of the APS recruitment framework and role model exceptional client service to support managers acquire the capabilities the AER needs to deliver its strategic plan.

The key duties of the position include:

Working under limited direction and making decisions independently, the Senior Recruitment Advisor will:

• Manage the AER Recruitment Team’s day-to-day activities including:
  • Supporting managers to identify and plan their recruitment needs.
  • Advertise and promote employment opportunities.
  • Administer the AER’s online recruitment system (TechnologyOne) including:
    • preparing and receiving applications
    • supporting managers to record recruitment recommendations
    • advising applicants of the outcome of their application
    • preparing and issuing offers of employment
    • facilitating the onboarding process and maintaining the AER’s position establishment.
    • Facilitating merit lists and transfers with other APS agencies.
• Support the Assistant Director - Recruitment and Planning to review and enhance standard configuration for recruitment and organisation management modules in the AER’s enterprise resource planning system (TechnologyOne)
• Collaborate with key AER stakeholders to develop, deliver and maintain recruitment plans that will recruit the capabilities the AER requires to deliver its strategic plan.
• Support, advise and influence employees and managers on recruitment related matters, policies and procedures.
• Undertake other duties, as required.

Eligibility

• Australian Citizenship – our successful candidate must be an Australian Citizen
• Security clearance – our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the required level
• Employment check – your suitability for employment will be assessed through a screening process.

Getting to know the Australian Energy Regulator

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) works to make energy consumers better off, now and in the future. We focus on ensuring a secure, reliable and affordable energy future for Australia as it transitions to net zero emissions.We regulate electricity networks and covered gas pipelines, in all jurisdictions except Western Australia. We set the amount of revenue that network businesses can recover from customers for using these networks.From 1 July 2026, the AER structurally separated from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and transitioned into a standalone non-corporate Commonwealth entity with its own accountable authority, staff and budgetary control.The separation of the AER from the ACCC is a significant regulatory reform aimed at improving the governance and operational autonomy of the AER.