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**Executive Assistant
**Job Reference Number **273_11/24
**Position Title **Executive Assistant
**Classification **APS5
**Status **Ongoing (Full time)
**Salary Range **$84,927 - $90,696 + 15.4% Superannuation
**Contact Person **Gemma Beggs, Executive Officer
**Contact Number **0457 595 318
**Date Applications Open **11 November 2024
**Number of Vacancies **1
**Division **Regulatory Operations
**Branch **Office of the Deputy Commissioner
**Section **Office of the Deputy Commissioner
**Location **Melbourne, VIC
**Date Applications Close **24 November 2024
**About the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission**
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (the NDIS Commission) is an independent
agency established on 1 July 2018 to improve the quality and safety of NDIS supports and
services. The NDIS Commission is the dedicated national regulator of NDIS service providers
in Australia and a non-corporate entity under the _Public Governance, Performance and _
- Accountability Act 2013_.
**About the Division**
The Regulatory Operations Division (the Division) delivers core regulatory functions
including registration of NDIS providers, oversight of the Approved Quality Auditor (AQA)
scheme, oversight of the national worker screening arrangements, compliance monitoring
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and enforcement. It is also responsible for the delivery of targeted regulatory campaigns,
risk and intelligence, operational policy, quality improvement, Indigenous and Remote
Operations and has a small team undertaking an operational assurance and review
function.
The Division has four branches and a small office supporting the Deputy Commissioner:
- Market Operations
- Regulatory Campaigns and Projects
- Compliance and Enforcement
- Operational Assessment
**The NDIS Commission's core legislative functions are to**:
- uphold the rights of, and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of, people with
disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the National
Disability Insurance Scheme
- develop a nationally consistent approach to managing quality and safeguards for people
with disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the
National Disability Insurance Scheme
- promote the provision of advice, information, education and training to NDIS providers
and people with disability
- secure compliance with relevant legislation through effective compliance and
enforcement arrangements, including through the monitoring and investigation
functions conferred on the NDIS Commissioner by legislation
- promote continuous improvement amongst NDIS providers and the delivery of
progressively higher standards of supports and services to people with disability
- develop and oversee the broad policy design for a nationally consistent framework
relating to the screening of workers involved in the provision of supports and services to
people with disability
- engage in, promote and coordinate the sharing of information to achieve the objects of
the relevant legislation, and
- provide NDIS market oversight, including:
I. by monitoring changes in the NDIS market which may indicate emerging risk;
and
II. by monitoring and mitigating the risks of unplanned service withdrawal.
The NDIS Commission is committed to upholding the rights of people with disability to
employment and offers interesting and challenging roles. People with disability are
**About this opportunity**
The Office of the Deputy Commissioner is recruiting a highly capable and driven individual
as the Executive Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner, Regulatory Operations.
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As EA, you will be a representative of the office you will be working across the Commission
and external government agencies to support the work of the Deputy Commissioner.
As such, strong customer service and interpersonal skills are essential to the position.
This opportunity includes but is not limited to calendar management, preparation of
correspondence, organising meetings and related briefing packs, arranging and acquitting
travel, inbox management, and record keeping in line with relevant Acts and office policy.
At the **APS 5** level you are generally required to undertake work that is moderately complex
to complex in nature and operate under limited direction. You will have increased
accountability for organising workflows and making decisions independently relating to your
area of responsibility.
**Key duties of the role
- Providing executive level support to Deputy Commissioner, including but not limited
to:
- managing and organising the Deputy Commissioner's inbox and associated
mailboxes, calendar and appointments, and drawing their attention to urgent
matters
- preparing agendas and collating materials and documents for meetings to
ensure the Deputy Commissioner has all required information and