- Executive Level 1
- Canberra, ACT
- $125,220 - $138,394
About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.
We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.
With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.
It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’– where our people reflect our purpose.
The Role
Reporting to the Director, the Assistant Director oversees information management services, including information systems maintenance, support, and advice to customers. In this role you will provide expert advice on records and information management and contribute to the implementation of DEWRs’ Information Management Strategy and supporting frameworks and policies. You will manage external supplier contracts, library and mail services, and lead information management projects.
Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibilities of the Assistant Director, Information Management may include:
- Provide expert strategic direction and advice on information management policy, complex problem solving and issues management for internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute toward the implementation of the Information Management strategy and supporting policy documents.
- Provide advice on relevant whole of government policies and strategies.
- Deliver high quality services with a focus on engaging and collaborating with stakeholders across DEWR to identify opportunities, achieve outcomes and facilitate cooperation.
- Lead, manage and mentor a small team of information management professionals fostering capability development and collaboration.
- Prepare briefing materials, reports, options papers and other correspondence, as required.
- Manage contracts and financials for service agreements with external information providers, including library subscriptions, freight, mail, and off-site physical records storage.
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 750 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.
In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:
- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.
Don’t meet all the role requirements?
At DEWR we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and seek to recruit staff with a wide range of backgrounds, skill levels, disciplines and working styles. If this role resonates with you and you are excited about making an impact, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Citizenship - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.
Security Clearance - our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.