65852

Closes: 14 April 2025

Classification: Senior Officer Grade A
Salary: $167,872 plus superannuation
Position No: 65852
Directorate: Justice and Community Safety
Advertised (Gazettal date): 31 March 2025
Contact Officer: Katie Dunn on Katie.Dunn@act.gov.au or (02) 6207 8556

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Details: As the Senior Director, Industrial and Workplace Relations and work health and safety (WHS), you will play a pivotal role in fostering positive workplace relationships, ensuring compliance with the industrial framework, and leading Justice and Community Safety (JACS) to maintain a safe workplace. Additionally, you will be relied upon to provide expert industrial advice to clients and stakeholders and assist with complex and high-risk people matters.

Reporting directly to the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), you will lead a team responsible for managing industrial and workplace relations, enhancing HR systems and processes and managing the delivery of work health and safety expertise and advice.

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.

Note: An order of merit will be established from this selection process and may be used to fill future identical vacancies over the next 12 months. This position is in a workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers do not have a designated workstation/desk. Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times.

How to Apply: Applicants are required to submit a personal pitch (of no more than two pages) addressing both the Professional/Technical Skill and Knowledge and Behavioural Capabilities outlined under the "What you require" section of the Position Description. Specific examples should be provided using the STAR method where appropriate.

Applicants should also provide a current curriculum vitae with details of two referees (one of which must be your current supervisor/manager).

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now Button Below.

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