Salary Range: $97,735 - $110,982 + Attractive Superannuation
The Department's Veterans' Access Network is the department's first point of contact for general client enquiries and interactions. Offices are located in state/territory capitals and other key locations, including regional and rural Australia. The Veterans' Access Network is a national work unit, providing high quality and professional services to the veteran community, which primarily consists of veterans and their families, current serving members and representatives of ex-service organisations.
**Duties**
- Manage the day-to-day client service delivery and office operations to deliver frontline services for veterans and their families
- Manage a team, including setting expectations, managing performance, identifying and delivering training, building teams and developing others
- Obtaining evidence to guide performance discussions and address underperformance by utilising the department's underperformance policy
- Inspire and motivate a team of client service officers to be innovative, creative and high performing
- Manage the workload of the team by allocating resources, and making sure key due dates are met
- Liaise with key internal and external stakeholders including other DVA business areas, other government departments and agencies
- Undertake and contribute to DVA projects and transformation initiatives and proactively provide feedback to improve systems and processes
- Personally delivering services as required, to support clients who are at risk or have complex needs and are escalated to the manager
- Delivering presentations to ex service organisations or other stakeholder groups
- Management of regional offices and offices co-located with Services Australia
**Eligibility**
- Under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS).
- All applicants external to DVA offered employment will be required to successfully undergo a pre-engagement screening check, even if they have a security clearance. The screening check is conducted in accordance with the Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework requirements.
**Notes**
A merit pool of suitable applicants may be created which may be used to fill future ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies should they become available over the next 18 months.
Where a non-ongoing position is offered, the role will be filled for an initial specified term of up to 18 months.
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