$120,303 - $135,701 + up to 15.4% Superannuation
- Canberra - ACT, Queanbeyan - NSW
**The Role**
The Assistant Director, Networks and Partnerships, is the focal point for ACMC's whole-of-Centre engagement activities. The position plays an integral role for the ACMC in identifying and maintaining networks and partnerships with civilian, military and police stakeholders.
These networks are utilised across the Centre to improve civil-military-police coordination in Australia and across the region. Key themes of current focus in ACMC civil-military-police networks include Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, Women, Peace and Security, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief.
- Facilitate, develop and maintain centre-wide strategic partnerships on priority topics (especially Women, Peace and Security, Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Relief) among regional partners and non-government organisations across the Indo-Pacific;
- Facilitate and build centre-wide relationships with other government agencies;
- Be a point of reference to support the Executive and Deputy Executive Directors in engaging strategic partners;
- Provide and/or support the secretariat role for key domestic engagements and regional civil-military-police fora;
- Support civil society engagement and program implementation in line with ACMC's responsibilities under the Australian Government's Women, Peace and Security National Action Plan;
- Support the establishment and maintenance of civil-military-police forums and communities of interest to discuss and collaborate on priority themes/topics;
- The position reports to the Director of Partnerships and Preparedness.
**About our Team**
The Australian Civil-Military Centre's (ACMC) mission is to strengthen Australian and regional civil-military-police capacity and capability to respond more effectively to crises and contingencies. In implementing its mission, the ACMC promotes better practice civil-military-police coordination and interactions to achieve operational objectives.
ACMC is a small dynamic organisation with approximately 25 staff drawn from permanent staff from the Department of Defence augmented by seconders from Australian Government departments and agencies, the Current Zealand Government, and the Australian Council for International Development (Australia's peak non-government sector body).
The Partnership and Preparedness Directorate mobilises and delivers ACMC's civil-military-police knowledge and content. By developing and maintaining networks throughout relevant government, non-government and regional channels, the team enables ACMC to design and deliver knowledge and content in line with its overarching ambition to strengthen Australian and regional civil-military-police capacity and capability to respond more effectively to crises and contingencies.
To be successful in this role, the applicant will be able to demonstrate strategic engagement and stakeholder management skills. The applicant should also be familiar with whole-of-government engagement processes, including secretariat and chairing duties of domestic and regional forums that incorporate a variety of agencies and portfolios.
- Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict;
- Women, Peace and Security; and
- Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief.
Finally, the applicant will be able show considerable initiative, be self-motivated, resilient and able to work with limited direction. The role is likely to require occasional travel, domestic and international.