Strategic Governance Lead – APS6

ACCC; Hobart; Remote; AUD 93,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

ACCC is seeking Senior Governance Officers (APS6) and APS5 roles to strengthen governance, coordination and corporate reporting across a national footprint. The positions support senior leaders, manage complex briefs and ensure compliance with public service requirements.

You will lead teams, guide change initiatives, and coordinate risk, policy and performance reporting while working with a distributed group to advance divisional priorities and outcomes. Flexible arrangements apply.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing high level executive support, governance, business support, or project support services.
• Ability to facilitate and support effective communication within teams, across work areas, and between senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
• Ability to understand, interpret, and apply legal or technical information, including financial policy and guidelines and employment conditions.
• Demonstrated ability to respond effectively to change, to take initiative and to use creative problem-solving techniques.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Divisional leadership to support corporate functions (including recruitment, finance and procurement, knowledge and records management, travel services, conducting research, drafting briefings, reports and documents).
• Contributing to strategic planning and priority setting by understanding the broader operating environment and translating divisional priorities into practical work plans and outcomes.
• Maintaining accurate records and strengthening data quality, integrity and reporting to support evidence-based advice and decision making.
• Planning and coordinating change initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, communications, transition activities, risk management and progress monitoring.
• Working collaboratively within a geographically dispersed team to manage joint projects and tasks, including tracking progress and workflow, meeting milestones and deadlines.
• Manage the team’s support to senior leaders, improving the effectiveness of meetings, coordinating briefings, progressing actions and follow-up with divisional priorities and anticipated needs.
• Manage projects and workflows related to reporting, including contributing to publications and mandatory reports on divisional performance (eg Annual Report).
• Coordinate divisional responses to corporate requests and ensuring CFT leaders are aware of changes to corporate requirements, guidelines and policies.
• Directly support senior leaders in delivering their vision and priorities for the division, providing expertise and assistance, drafting communication and managing the flow of information within the leadership team and other senior leaders in the agency.
• Supervise and develop staff by setting clear expectations, allocating and monitoring work, providing constructive feedback and supporting performance, capability and wellbeing.

Skills

Executive support

Governance

Project support

Business support

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

ACCC is seeking Senior Governance Officers (APS6) and APS5 roles to strengthen governance, coordination and corporate reporting across a national footprint. The positions support senior leaders, manage complex briefs and ensure compliance with public service requirements.

You will lead teams, guide change initiatives, and coordinate risk, policy and performance reporting while working with a distributed group to advance divisional priorities and outcomes. Flexible arrangements apply.