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**APS6 Parliamentary Officer**
**Job Reference Number **248_10/24
**Position Title** Parliamentary Officer
**Classification **APS 6
**Status **Ongoing, Full-time
**Salary Range **$93,023 - $104,558 + 15.4% Superannuation
**Contact Person **Stephen Rees
**Contact Job Title **Director - Parliamentary Services
**Contact Number **0436 847 687
**Number of Vacancies **1
**Division **N/A
**Branch **Planning, Performance and Delivery
**Section** Parliamentary Services
**Location **Canberra, ACT
**Date Applications Open **15/10/2024
**Date Applications Close **28/10/2024
**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.
**The NDIS Commission's core legislative functions**
- Uphold the rights of, and promote the health, safety, and wellbeing of, people with
- disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the NDIS.
- Develop a nationally consistent approach to managing quality and safeguards for
- people with disability receiving supports or services, including those received under
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- the NDIS.
- 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.
- 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.
- Provide NDIS market oversight, including:
I. by monitoring changes in the NDIS market which may indicate emerging risk
II. by monitoring and mitigating the risks of unplanned service withdrawal.
The NDIS Commission is a disability friendly organisation that offers interesting and
**Parliamentary Services Team**
Parliamentary Services is the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's (NDIS Commission)
central coordination point for ministerial and parliamentary activity, including ministerial
correspondence, ministerial submissions and briefs, coordination activities such as Question
Time Briefs (QTBs), Senate Estimates and parliamentary committee hearings.
Parliamentary Services manages the NDIS Commission's instance of the Parliamentary
Document Management System (PDMS), which includes administering the system,
maintaining user guidelines, and the delivery of staff training and Helpdesk support.
Parliamentary Services will also work closely with the Office of the Commissioner to support
the day-to-day Commissioner engagement activities for events, meetings, and site visits.
At times, Parliamentary Services will be required to take on ad-hoc tasks outside of its
standard day-to-day responsibilities to support the broader Commission.
and have experience in all aspects of a Ministerial and Parliamentary Unit.
**Key duties of the role**
The Parliamentary Officer will have the responsibility for the following key duties:
1. Assist with the day-to-day processes of ministerial correspondence, ministerial
submissions and briefs and Question Time Briefs, while ensuring items are processed
within the agreed timeframes, and are of high quality.
2. Exercise discretion and judgement, including the ability to action tasks within
established work practices and priorities; and identifying priority and sensitive tasks for
escalation.
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3. Performing quality assurance on all types of parliamentary documents, including
formatting, spelling, punctuation, grammar and overall presentation, ensuring
documents are meeting the expectation of the Minister and the NDIS Commission
Executive.
4. Assist with managing and allocating work received via the Parliamentary mailbox,
including coordinating input requests and drafting some standard responses.
5. Support the Senate Estimate and parliamentary committee coordination processes,
including hearing preparations and post-hearing activities (i.e. Questions on Notice);
including preparing briefing executive, attending hearings, constructing folders for
witnesses and observers.
**Systems and training**
6. Assist with workings of the NDIS Commission's instance of PDMS, including
a. training for staff, building user capability across the NDIS Commission;
b. helpdesk support and preparing/updating guidance material to support end users;
c. assistanc