Agency Purpose
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is an independent statutory authority established by the Australian Government to maintain an impartial and independent electoral system for eligible voters through active electoral roll management, efficient delivery of polling services, and targeted education and public awareness programs.
The AEC’s values and commitments
The AEC values and commitments are an essential component of our operating environment and frame how AEC staff work. The AEC's focus is on electoral integrity through the values of quality, agility and professionalism.
The Team
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) Division delivers a range of digital technology and operational services that support and enable the AEC to deliver on its strategic outcomes along with supporting and enhancing business as usual activities.
The CIO Division is committed to establishing and maintaining a high-performing and positive workplace culture. It is a fast-paced work environment, but we have a great team of highly motivated and collaborative professionals who work well together, sharing knowledge and supporting each other in our day-to-day activities.
The Indigo Delivery Branch (IDB) lead the build, refinement and deployment of modern, secure and agile AEC services and technologies for the Indigo Program.
We currently have opportunities available to join the following teams within the IDB:
- Indigo Build Delivery: Multi-disciplinary teams that build, refine and deploy solutions to re-engineer business processes and replace aging electoral systems with modern, secure and agile technologies.
- Indigo Testing: We are dedicated to ensuring software and applications meet quality standards. We are comprised of multi-disciplinary teams with a focus on quality in an agile development environment. Providing functional and non-functional testing services, we support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Deployment activities.
- Indigo Systems: Provides technical expertise to the broader Indigo Program across multiple disciplines, including architecture, security, Azure cloud, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, enterprise integration, and infrastructure to support and enable agile delivery teams. Acting as the IT enabler, the team ensure that systems are efficiently designed, secure, integrated and deployed.
The Opportunities
As a Project Coordinator within the CIO Division, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the strategic objectives and organisational priorities of the respective section by providing administrative support, collaborating and communicating effectively with stakeholders and, ensuring rigorous governance reporting and record keeping.
The role is responsible for undertaking work that is moderately complex to complex and/or sensitive in nature, under limited direction, utilising expertise and knowledge within the area of operational project and programme delivery.
To excel you’ll have:
To excel in the roles across all sections you will have the following generalist capabilities and skills:
Mandatory
- Demonstrated work experience in a project, management or business administration role.
- Demonstrated experience managing high volumes of work and competing priorities, with the ability to deliver work high-quality work to agreed standards and timeframes.
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and levels of seniority.
- Well-developed stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build and maintain strategic relationships and use professional judgement to communicate decisions and manage stakeholder expectations.
- Demonstrated high integrity and discretion when dealing with confidential and sensitive matters.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and a strong commitment to working harmoniously within a team to achieve positive results and support the AEC’s strategic direction.
- Demonstrated proficiency in using IT tools to maintain project/program records and information (e.g. MS Suite, electronic record management system, Azure DevOps, etc.).
Desirable
- Tertiary qualifications and/or an industry recognised certification in Management, Business Administration, Project Management or a similar field.
- Demonstrated work experience providing administrative support for a program/project in the Federal government context.
- Demonstrated work experience providing administrative support to an Information Communication Technology program/project.
- Experience in Agile ways of working, such as SCRUM or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
In addition, in the Indigo Build Delivery section the role available requires workforce management skills. Those with a keen interest, and the relevant skills and experience in this area, should include this in their statement of claims.
Eligibility
- AEC employees must be Australian citizens.
- Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs, and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.
- Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.
- Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the security clearance required for this role.