**EL1 Assistant Director, Business Resilience**
**Job Reference Number**109_05/25
**Position Title** Assistant Director, Business Resilience
**Classification**Executive Level 1
**Status**Ongoing Fulltime
**Salary Range**$120,307 - $136,563
**Contact Person**Lacey Shields
**Contact Job Title**Director, Security and Workplace Services
**Contact Number**0476 220 028
**Number of Vacancies**1
**Division**Corporate
**Branch**Corporate Executive
**Section** Security and Workplace Services
**Location**
Adelaide, SA; Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Darwin,
NT; Hobart, TAS; Melbourne, VIC; Parramatta and
Penrith NSW; Perth, WA
**Date Applications Open**Friday 16 May 2025
**Date Applications Close**Thursday 29 May 2025
**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 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 works with people with disability, the National Disability Insurance
Agency (NDIA), governments and the sector who together deliver the National Disability
Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
We strongly and actively encourage applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and
experiences, including people with disability, First Nations peoples, people from culturally
and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds and LGBTIQA+. We know a diverse workforce
and inclusive workplace drives our success.
**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
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
- provide advice or recommendations to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and its
Board in relation to the performance of the Agency's functions
- engage in, promote and coordinate the sharing of information to achieve the objects of the
relevant legislation, and provide NDIS market oversight, including:
- monitoring changes in the NDIS market which may indicate emerging risk; and
- monitoring and mitigating the risks of unplanned service withdrawal.
The NDIS Commission is a disability friendly organisation that offers interesting and
Commission.
**About the Corporate Division**
The Corporate Division is responsible for delivering enabling services to the NDIS
Commission and providing assurance that business practices are in accordance with
Government requirements, across the following functions:
- ICT and Information
Management
- Finance
- Procurement
- Internal Audit
- Internal Fraud
- Risk
- Property
- Security
- Fleet
- Corporate Support
**About the team**
Security and Workplace Services is responsible for enhancing the NDIS Commission's
business, security and resilience capability through strategically and operationally
managing the national property and accommodation portfolio. Our protective security and
resilience management programs ensure our people, properties and assets remain safe,
accessible, secure and fit for purpose, across the Commission's footprint.
**Duties**
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Lead and support the NDIS Commission's Business Continuity Management (BCM)
program and related activities, including business resilience strategies, frameworks,
policies, and procedures to meet Commission requirements.
- Partner with business areas Commission-wide to embed a fit for purpose
organisational business resilience framework for Business Continuity (BC), Crisis
Management (CM) and Emergency Management (EM).
- Develop, maintain, and implement Business Continuity Plans (both operational and
enterprise-level plans), disaster recovery plans and associated strategies and
solutions.
- Conduct business risk assessments, business impact analyses, and document
business co