El1 - Assistant Director, Workplace Relations

Our values set the direction for what it means to work in our department. They inform the standard and expectations of behaviours, skills and capabilities and the attributes we currently have, will continually work to achieve and develop, and that we use to acknowledge and attract, retain and recruit into our department.

• The opportunity we have available

We are currently seeking to temporarily fill the role of Assistant Director, Workplace Relations.

This is a leadership position within the People Branch, and wider department, and is responsible for ensuring workplace relations guidance and advice that we deliver for our business and people are actioned in a responsive, timely, effective and efficient manner, and in line with the public sector employment framework.

In this role, you will work closely with key stakeholders to deliver a range of services, including, but not limited to :

• Providing strategic advice on departmental employment matters in compliance with relevant legislation, APS policy and departmental practices relating to :
• Enterprise bargaining, enterprise agreement(s) and related procedures
• Conditions of service, including overseas posts
• Enterprise agreement disputes and grievances.
• Managing the Departmental Consultative Committee Secretariat function.
• Providing briefings, reports, and papers relating to complex employment matters to senior management and the Executive.
• Building and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and working relationships with all clients and stakeholders, including employee organisation officials, senior management in the Department and the Indian Ocean Territories Administration.
• Leading and managing direct reports in the Workplace Relations Team to achieve its outcomes.
• Who are we looking for?
You will be :
• Focused on
• continuous business improvement
• with an ability to identify process efficiencies;
• Collaborative
• with the ability to work well in a team, and with internal and external stakeholders, to build relationships;
• resolver of issues
• with an ability to bring together stakeholders to deliver timely outcomes;
• Credible
• with an ability to
• operate with integrity
• in an
• ethical and trustworthy manner
• provide consistent advice
• RecruitAbility minimum requirements

Minimum requirements for this role include :

• Proven leadership skills and the ability to effectively coordinate work ensuring high quality and timely outcomes.
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills, including strong attention to detail.
• Ability to provide timely and concise advice to inform and support executive decision making.
• Ability to establish and maintain key strategic relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.

RecruitAbility is a scheme which aims to attract and develop applicants with disability and also facilitate cultural changes in selection panels and agency recruitment.

Job applicants with disability who met the requirements are advanced to the next stage of the selection process :

• Opt into the scheme
• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised in the scheme

More information can be found at RecruitAbility scheme : A guide for applicants | Australian Public Service Commission (apsc.gov.au).

• What else can we offer?
• Exposure to high profile and exciting pieces of work
• Networking opportunities across the department and wider APS
• Capability development opportunities focused on your individual goals
• Mentoring and coaching
• A collegiate working environment focused on working together to achieve innovative and contemporary solutions to our workforce issues
• Eligibility requirements
• How to apply

Applications for this opportunity close at

• 11.59pm AEDT, Friday 1 November 2024
• Timeline and assessment

A selection panel will be established to assess your suitability against the advertised role.

If a merit pool is established it will be valid for 18 months from date it first appeared in the APS Gazette.

Applications open

• 18 October 2024_

Applications close

• 1 November 2024_

Application shortlisting

• 8 November 2024_

Further assessments

• 15 November 2024_

Selection report finalised

• 25 November 2024_

Offers and announcements

• 29 November 2024_

The above is indicative only, please reach out to the contact person if you have any questions on the recruitment process or timeframes.