36276

Closes: 23 January 2025

Classification: Senior Officer Grade C
Salary: $124,103 - $133,195 plus superannuation
Position No: 36276
Directorate: Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development
Advertised (Gazettal date): 02 January 2025
Contact Officer: Damian Grovenor on Damian.Grovenor@act.gov.au or (02) 6207 9384

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Details: The Assistant Director is part of a multi-disciplinary team of procurement and contract management professionals within the Strategic Business Branch of Digital Data and Technology Solutions (DDTS).

The DDTS Procurement, Contracts and Compliance (PCC) section provides a single point of contact for technology-related procurements and contracts. The team provides advice to business units to deliver best outcomes for Government through market approaches and manages Whole of Government software licensing arrangements utilised across DDTS and directorates more broadly. The team also undertakes a contracts administration function involving the tracking of approximately 100 ICT contracts and working with contract owners to ensure effective contract management practices, including notification of when a procurement activity needs to be initiated.

As an Assistant Director in the PCC section, you will be expected to understand ICT procurement and contract management practices and will work in a vertical team that will specialise in one or more of these areas. The current vacancy is in the Contract Management Team, applicants are recommended to have experience and expertise in contract management.

The purpose of the Assistant Director is to provide quality service to our customers and improvement of a range of procurement and contract provision activities. This role is critical in developing and maintaining key strategic partnerships and providing expert advice to internal and external stakeholders to ensure the consistent delivery of procurement, contract, and licensing related services. The Assistant Director works closely with the Director in a small and busy team, thereby ensuring that ICT procurements, software licensing, and contract management functions are performed efficiently and effectively.

As part of the ACTPS, this role has access to a range of flexible working provisions including hybrid work arrangement primarily based in the Gungahlin office (Winyu House) and/or home and is expected to work in the Gungahlin office a minimum of 1 day per week. ACTPS staff also have access to a range of FlexiSpace office locations across Canberra.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/ Other Requirements:

• An ACT Government CMTEDD Baseline Security clearance is required for this position.
• This position does not require a pre-employment medical.
• Driver’s license is not essential.
• This position does not require a Working with Vulnerable People Check.

Note: A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. This position works in a workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk.

How to Apply: Applicants must submit:

1. A two-page written response to the Selection Criteria.
2. A curriculum vitae (including contact details of two referees, one of which is your current supervisor).

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now Button Below.

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