• APS6 Compliance Policy Officer role within a Federal Government Agency
• 12 Months initial contract with possible extension
• Deakin Location with flexible working arrangement

Our client is seeking for an APS6 Compliance Policy Officer to join the Compliance Program Branch.

About the role
The Compliance Program Branch is responsible for providing the strategic and operational direction of the Agency’s compliance function to ensure payment integrity and facilitate a reduction of potential fraud and financial non-compliance against the Agency.

The branch aim is to engage with Agency staff, partners, participants and providers to promote good compliance practice and early intervention when financial non-compliance is identified. We actively engage in positive reinforcement, early intervention, and mutual awareness and ownership towards compliance and good practice.

Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Providing cross-division policy and technical support in complex operational matters and policy interpretation.
• Maintaining contemporary understanding of whole of Agency and function-specific policies, guidance and tools, assisting operational areas in embedding compliance best practice.
• Researching and preparing materials for internal working groups, think tanks and other strategic engagements for achieving compliant outcomes.
• Applying a contemporary understanding of disability across divisional support initiatives, ensuring the program delivers high quality, participant centric outcomes.
• Supporting the Assistant Director in identifying opportunities for strengthening controls and policies for compliance integration in the broader NDIA ecosystem.
  NOTE: the key responsibilities of the role are based on current priorities and may change over time

Skills and Experience
Key skills required for role/s:

• Demonstrated skills in critical thinking and research.
• Experience developing, leading and supporting a team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distil complex ideas into concrete and accessible information.
• Experience in policy analysis and advice with understanding of what it means to take an intersectional approach to disability
  Desirable skills to have for the role/s:
• Experience in government
• Experience in quality assurance, auditing or related fields
• Experience in the development and maintenance of frameworks
• Experience in project management

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

• To be eligible for employment in this role, you must be an Australian citizen.

How to Apply:

To apply for this opportunity, please submit your application to Connie at Talent International by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button. Alternatively, you can contact Connie on 02 6129 6318 or connie.tong@talentinternational.com for further information

• EL1 & APS6 Risk Manager/Risk Officers within a Federal Government Agency
• Contract Term: 12 Months plus possible extension
• Hybrid working option (Maximum 2 days working from home)

About the Role:
The Risk Advisory Branch supports the Agency to assess and manage risks. The branch supports risk owners to identify and manage risks inherent in their operating activities and strategic initiatives. They develop controls to mitigate risks and facilitate improved risk awareness and training, reporting on emerging risk profiles and trends.

Key Responsibilities:

EL1 Risk and Project Advisory Manager

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Providing specialist project risk advice to bespoke and interdependent projects including strategic and BAU initiatives across the Agency aligning with project delivery and operational risk frameworks.
• Facilitate project risk workshops to lead and assist with the identification, assessment and validation of key project and program risks, issues, controls, and treatment plans throughout the project lifecycle.
• Reviewing and providing specialist risk input on project documentation including project briefs, design specifications, stage gate review checklists and artefacts to ensure appropriate management of identified project risks.
• Guiding the capture of risk data into project and/program risk registers to monitor and analyse trends and report insights / escalate issues to the Risk Advisory Branch Manager and Chief Risk Officer.
• Capturing and monitoring risk data, including generating risk reports and insights.
• Undertaking project risk reviews, including thematic and deep dive reviews.
• Contributing to ongoing improvement of project risk management maturity including development of relevant processes and procedures.
• Coordinating the transition of delivered project risks into BAU risks with operational risk teams.

Skills and Experience
Key skills required for role/s:

• 5+ years or more experience in risk management disciplines in operational and project risk functions
• Experience in leading strategic and transformational programs in relation to risk
• Experience in developing and reviewing project risk frameworks, SOPs.
• Experience in facilitating to senior executives and leading complex program risk discussions.
• Experience in drafting high level program risk reports for senior executives.

Desirable skills:

• CPRM or PRINCE2 or PMP certification
• Analytical, data driven and problem-solving mindset- to analyse trends and insights.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of cross functional teams.
• Experience in using GRC systems.

APS6 Risk and Project Advisory Officer

Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Provide assistance to Risk Advisory team with capturing and monitoring of project, operational, and fraud risk together with controls, treatment plans and other artefacts relating to risk management.
• Developing, maintain and regularly review Business area risk registers in line with the Agency Risk Management system, developing risk reports, presentation packs, trends and insights using risk analytics.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to develop comprehensive risk profiles for business areas and work streams.
• Contributing to continuous improvement of t risk management methodology at the Agency including development of any SOPs and process documentation.
• Coordinating and facilitating risk workshops with the Risk Advisory team.
• Assisting teams with the management of delivered risks in various business areas, including project, operational and fraud risk
• Supporting the assistant directors with completing risk reviews, including thematic and deep dive reviews.

Skills and Experience
Key skills required for role/s:

• Risk management,
• Strong stakeholder management/engagement,
• Highly analytical, attention to detail

Desirable skills:

• Project Management,
• Fraud risk identification and analysis,
• High level Microsoft suite skills (including SharePoint and Excel)

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

• To be eligible for employment for this role, you must be an Australian citizen.

How to Apply:
To apply for this opportunity, please submit your application to Connie at Talent International by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button. Alternatively, you can contact Connie on 02 6129 6318 or connie.tong@talentinternational.com for further information

• APS6&EL1 Compliance Design Officer opportunity within Federal Government
• Contract Term: 12 Months plus possible extension
• Hybrid / Flexible working arrangement is available (Maximum 2 days working from home)

About the Role:
The Compliance Program Branch is responsible for providing the strategic and operational direction of the Agency’s compliance function to ensure payment integrity and facilitate a reduction of potential fraud and financial non-compliance against the Agency.

The branch aim is to engage with Agency staff, partners, participants and providers to promote good compliance practice and early intervention when financial non-compliance is identified. We actively engage in positive reinforcement, early intervention, and mutual awareness and ownership towards compliance and good practice.

Key Responsibilities:
EL1 Compliance Program Design
Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Supervising and leading staff in designing and evaluating compliance business processes.
• Managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships, supporting the operational integration of business processes.
• Applying strong project management methodologies in delivering the compliance program of work.
• Researching, reviewing and evaluating projects in specific operational and technical areas.
• Contributing to the design and technical specifications of supporting business systems (ICT).
• Maintaining a contemporary understanding of legislation, rules and policy regarding compliance best practice within the Australian Public Service.
• Providing technical advice to operational business areas to support positive compliance outcomes.
• Managing complex projects, including the timely delivery of quality outputs.

APS6 Compliance Design Officer
Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Contributing to the design and evaluation of compliance business processes.
• Developing and maintaining key internal and external stakeholder relationships to support the operational integration of business processes.
• Working within project management methodologies to deliver the compliance program of work.
• Preparing draft reports on the research, review and evaluation of projects in specific operational and technical areas.
• Contributing to the design and technical specifications of supporting business systems (ICT).
• Maintaining a contemporary understanding of legislation, rules and policy regarding compliance best practice within the Australian Public Service.
• Providing technical advice to operational business areas to support positive compliance outcomes.
• Supporting the Assistant Director to manage complex projects, including the timely delivery of quality outputs.

Skills and Experience
Essential skills (EL1)

• Experience in project management
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to identify, assess and solve problems.
• Experience developing, leading, and supporting a team

Desirable skills (EL1)

• Experience in government
• Experience in quality assurance, auditing, or related fields
• Experience in the application of BI within a regulatory environment

Essential skills (APS6)

• Experience in project management
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to identify, assess and solve problems.
• Experience developing, leading, and supporting a team

Desirable skills (APS6)

• Experience in project management
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to identify, assess and solve problems.
• Experience developing, leading, and supporting a team

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

• To be eligible for employment for this role, you must be an Australian citizen.

How to Apply:
To apply for this opportunity, please submit your application to Connie at Talent International by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button. Alternatively, you can contact Connie on 02 6129 6318 or connie.tong@talentinternational.com for further information.

• APS6 Policy Analyst role within a Federal Government Agency
• 12 Months initial contract with possible extension
• Deakin Location with flexible working arrangement

Our client is seeking for an APS6 Policy Analyst to join the the Economic and Pricing Branch.

About the role
The Economic and Pricing branch is responsible for the agency’s market stewardship to create an efficient and sustainable consumer driven marketplace for disability supports. It regulates the commercial relationships between providers and participants, including through price regulation. The pricing arrangements aim for a balance between participants receiving value for money quality care while improving market supply of providers, as well as recognising the need for financial sustainability.

Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Strong writing skills to clearly articulate how the policy decisions are supported based on the quantitative and qualitative findings for reports and papers.
• There will be a separate data team who will be doing the data extraction/analysis using SAS. This candidate should be able to work with the team to define what is required as well as able to understand the output and how it justifies the final policy decisions. As well as the ability to communicate the analysis and how it links to the final decisions in writing and verbally.
• Qualitative research of economic environment, stakeholder feedback and other relevant policy impact to inform policy decisions.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to maintain strong, productive working relationships.

NOTE: the key responsibilities of the role are based on current priorities and may change over time

Skills and Experience Key skills required for role/s:

• Strong writing skills to clearly articulate how the policy decisions are supported based on the quantitative and qualitative findings for reports and papers.
• There will be a separate data team who will be doing the data extraction/analysis using SAS. This candidate should be able to work with the team to define what is required as well as able to understand the output and how it justifies the final policy decisions. As well as the ability to communicate the analysis and how it links to the final decisions in writing and verbally.
• Qualitative research of economic environment, stakeholder feedback and other relevant policy impact to inform policy decisions.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to maintain strong, productive working relationships.

Desirable skills to have for the role/s:

• Previous writing experience in Government Agencies.
• Knowledge or experience of using quantitative and qualitative data to inform policy.

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

• To be eligible for employment in this role, you must be an Australian citizen.

How to Apply:
To apply for this opportunity, please submit your application to Connie at Talent International by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button. Alternatively, you can contact Connie on 02 6129 6318 or connie.tong@talentinternational.com for further information.

• APS6 Senior Project Officer role within a Federal Government Agency
• 12 Months initial contract with possible extension
• Deakin Location with flexible working arrangement

Our client is seeking for an APS6 Senior Project Officer to join the Government Relations Branch.

About the role
The APS6 Government Relations Officer is a team membership position that may be required to perform work that involves team leadership and management responsibilities requiring the setting of priorities and managing workflows of a team.

The position has reasonable autonomy and accountability to exercise both initiative and judgment to interpret legislation and policy, in the application of practices and procedures to achieve outcomes within strategic change management project function.

Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Developing and managing project plans for jurisdictional governance meetings and events in accordance with the Agency’s project management framework.
• Providing specialist advice and technical expertise to staff and stakeholders.
• Performing independent research work and analysis including the preparation of draft reports, including on relevant governance activities.
• Coordinating regular governance project reporting including status updates.
• Preparing draft written material including business cases, plans, executive briefs and corporate documentation.
• Contributing to project quality management of governance tasks to ensure that deliverables are fit for purpose and meet client needs.
• Building governance-related capability across the Agency by engaging and working with subject matter experts, implementing processes and tools, and undertaking continuous quality improvement of existing practises and processes.
• Maintaining the register of actions, issues and risks arising from trilateral forums and prepare progress reports for the senior executive.
• Analysing information from a variety of sources to identify and monitor emerging themes relevant to the work of the agency or its participation in the intergovernmental forums.

NOTE: the key responsibilities of the role are based on current priorities and may change over time

Skills and Experience
Key skills required for role/s:

• Attention to detail
• Minute taking and recording actions
• Highly developed written skills – briefs writing, correspondence, agendas, minutes, etc
• Stakeholder relationship management / engagement skills
• Arranging of complex internal and external stakeholder meetings
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.

Desirable skills to have for the role/s:

• Previous experience in government
• Experience in a role that supported governance / executive meetings
• Project management.

Eligibility/Other Requirements:

• To be eligible for employment in this role, you must be an Australian citizen.

How to Apply:
To apply for this opportunity, please submit your application to Connie at Talent International by clicking the “APPLY NOW” button. Alternatively, you can contact Connie on 02 6129 6318 or connie.tong@talentinternational.com for further information.

• Exciting opportunity for Business Analysts
• 12 months + 12 months
• Must be an Australian Citizen

Our Client
Our client is highly respected organisation, who provides services and supports to thousands of individuals around Australia. With multiple locations around Canberra, this vital Government organisation seeks only the most skilled and professional individuals to assist them in developing programs, policies, and initiatives that will improve the quality of life for Australia’s most vulnerable.

The Role
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to help define business problems via in-depth investigation and gathering of technical and non-technical information with specific focus on the Fraud domain. This is a key role to assist in the delivery a program of work, centred around a large-scale fraud investigation capability uplift.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Support the delivery in the development of a business case
• Working with Agile delivery practices including backlog creation / refinement
• Facilitate workshops and perform business analysis activities
• Suggest changes/enhancements to Senior Management using analytics to support your recommendations

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience working in a similar role supporting the successful delivery of high-impact and high-value initiatives
• Experience with Cloud environments Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services
• Proven experience, of greater than 3 years, in a senior role relating to fraud investigations, case management and data mining
• Demonstrated experience in elicitation business requirements and acceptance criteria

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

• Exciting opportunity for ICT Training professionals
• 12 months + possible extension
• Must hold minimum NV1 clearance
• Canberra location – onsite

Our Client
Our Client aims to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. Our Client provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.

The Role
Our client is seeking a Training Developer to create and maintain training content and courses for their cyber operations systems. The successful candidate will work across all product lines and collaborate closely with Technical Writers and engineers/developers.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Review and maintain contemporary training needs and requirements
• Develop and maintain a training content governance framework
• Produce and maintain training modules and/or content
• Work with Learning Management Authorities for review and approval

Skills and Experience

• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment or equivalent experience
• Certified SAFe Practitioner
• Experience within a training development role in a Defence environment
• Previous experience with Atlassian Jira
• Understanding of cyber security principles

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

• Exciting opportunity for Pega Developers
• 8 months + 6 months
• Must be an Australian Citizen
• Canberra or Melbourne location

Our Client
Our Client is an agency of innovation, industry and science. They administer intellectual property rights and legislation relating to patents, trade marks, registered designs and plant breeder’s rights in Australia.

The Role
Our client is seeking an experienced Pega Developer to build and release the agency’s designs system. The successful candidate will have a strong technical background in building and releasing large complex (PaaS and SaaS) systems.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Develop high-quality solutions for the Features and User Stories
• Assist the Tech Lead and Solution Architect to identify and manage technical risks
• Assist running Proof of Concepts and running technical spikes.
• Assist the Solution Architect and Tech Lead to create and maintain detailed designs at a level sufficient to enable build work
• Maintain high quality development standards required to build a high-quality and effective system

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience in developing Pega
• Proven experience working as a developer in agile teams
• Experience in developing PaaS and SaaS products
• Experience with MuleSoft and Java API’s
• Experience with AWS

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

• Exciting opportunity for Senior Pega Developers
• 8 months + 6 months
• Must be an Australian Citizen
• Canberra or Melbourne location

Our Client
Our Client is an agency of innovation, industry and science. They administer intellectual property rights and legislation relating to patents, trade marks, registered designs and plant breeder’s rights in Australia.

The Role
Our client is seeking an experienced Technical Lead / Senior Pega Developer to lead, build, and release activities on the agency’s designs system. The successful candidate will have a strong technical background in designing and building large complex (PaaS and SaaS) systems.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Lead and be accountable for the technical direction of the product.
• Identify and manage technical risks and issues.
• Guide team solutions with your technical knowledge of platforms.
• Take the lead on running Proof of Concepts and running technical spikes.
• Document detailed designs at a level sufficient to enable build work to commence

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience in technical leadership, solution architecture or similar position
• Experience in developing and architecture in Pega
• Experience designing and developing PAAS and SAAS in Agile projects
• Experience with VUE.JS development, and with MuleSoft and Java API’s

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

• Exciting opportunity for Test Engineers
• 12 months + 12 months
• Must be an Australian Citizen

Our Client
Our client is highly respected organisation, who provides services and supports to thousands of individuals around Australia. With multiple locations around Canberra, this vital Government organisation seeks only the most skilled and professional individuals to assist them in developing programs, policies, and initiatives that will improve the quality of life for Australia’s most vulnerable.

The Role
Our client is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to work as a part of their platforms, integration and data team. This team is responsible for scoping, designing, delivering and maintaining high quality IT systems and applications to support the agency.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Conduct functional, system, integration, regression, load and performance testing
• Design, write, execute effective manual and automated test cases and create test data
• Discover, reproduce, prioritize, retest, and clearly document software defects
• Provide training, coaching, mentoring to other teams/team members

Skills and Experience

• High level of competency in Programming, including hands-on practical knowledge of Javascript, Node.js, Python
• Ability to demonstrate hands-on experience of version controlling with GIT
• Playwright, Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber.js test automation frameworks
• K6 Load Testing tool, Jmeter and API testing

To apply for this opportunity, please click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com