Principal Region Advisor - Southern (AO7)

In this role you will:
- Build and maintain cohesive and functional relationships across Local Government Division
- Maintain an advanced knowledge and understanding of the local government sector and regions, in order to build council capability and provide advice to and from the Department on a range of matters (including Council statutory obligations, governance, project management and financial sustainability issues), ensuring that quality, timeframe and departmental standards are met.
- Show leadership by sharing insight and proactively advancing key priorities.
- Support the Region Manager to lead and manage a team of staff by demonstrating a commitment to operational improvement and promoting quality of work.
- Prepare high level written material (including outgoing correspondence, briefs and reports)
- Demonstrate high-level communication and relationship management skills with internal and external stakeholders and clients.
- Lead the delivery of training activities, workshops, meetings, seminars and events.
- Duties may vary from time to time. You may be required to perform a range of tasks that are outside your main list of duties, but are within the limits of your skill, competency and training, or are incidental and peripheral to your main duties.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/656494/25

Closing Date: Monday, 08 September 2025<space>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.