$115,899 - $130,733 + up to 15.4% superannuation
- Brindabella Park - ACT, Penrith - NSW
**The Role**
Do you want to challenge yourself across some of the most complex and challenging projects in Australia, if not the world?
Are you highly motivated and want to enhance your business skills and experience?
As an Assistant Director Business Operations working in Explosive Materiel Branch (EMB) in the Department of Defence, you will be working on some of the most exciting and complex guided weapons and explosive ordnance products used by the Australian Defence Force.
You will spend your days;
- Coordinating workforce matters across the Branch;
- Managing and analysing data to provide system and reporting support;
- Coordinating Branch governance boards, working groups and forums;
- Engaging and negotiating with stakeholders to achieve business outcomes; and
- Supporting Branch Operation activities and events.
Your ability to communicate effectively and analysing data will be key to allowing you to deliver outcomes. There may be some domestic business travel associated with this position.
**About our Team**
Explosive Materiel Branch Operations is an integral part of Explosive Materiel Branch (EMB), within the GWEO Delivery Division of the GWEO Group. Our team currently undertakes the administrative and business management functions of the Branch, including governance and performance reporting, decision support activities, coordination of workforce management, coordination and engagement of tasking management, and the executive services function for the Director-General Explosive Materiel.
Explosive Materiel Branch is dedicated to providing our staff with a diverse, manageable, favourable work-life balance, and we support flexible working arrangements. We will also invest in your training and development to ensure your time with us is deeply rewarding, both personally and professionally. We are committed to achieving a workplace culture that is inclusive and diverse; one which directly reflects the needs and scope of Defence's varied operational requirements.
In EMB, you will enjoy experiences and opportunities that, as an APS employee, you simply would not get with any other organisation. Other benefits include:* 15.4% superannuation;* access to personalised professional development pathways, including opportunities for Defence-funded post-graduate study;* additional leave days between Christmas and New Year;
- focus on work/life balance; and* salary sacrifice opportunities.
EMB is seeking experienced business managers to join our team who:
- Have exemplar communication skills to engage with a diverse range of business areas and levels.
- Can demonstrate superior analytical skills, and develop recommendations with a strategic mindset.
- Takes initiative to succeed and deliver outputs.
- Have an ability to negotiate with, and manage others, to achieve goals.
- Have an ability to support complex activities under broad direction and autonomously within defined timelines.
- Can contribute to a collaborative team environment
If you are someone who:
- Enjoys supporting challenging and highly complex procedural, operational and business management work activities,
- Is creative, pragmatic and solutions focussed, and
- Is not afraid to challenge the traditional ways of doing business
Then this is the role for you!