The Role

Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) is seeking an experienced lessons management practitioner to mobilise current and emerging civil-military-police coordination learnings through the design and delivery of a lessons program that reinforces good practice in multi-agency cooperation and capability building.

This role also operationalises new lessons concepts and approaches. The successful candidate will advocate for Government, Non-Government, civil society and international organisational involvement in lessons management and learning processes. Ideally, the successful candidate will have knowledge and experience in the application of the lessons management processes in the context of civil-military-police coordination and/or capacity building.

The successful candidate will have the skills to design and conduct lesson collection activities and provide lessons management learning products and packages relating to domestic and international multi-agency conflict and crises preparedness and responses. The successful candidate will work on complex to very complex activities with broad direction and work independently with significant autonomy and accountability to achieve agreed lessons management program outcomes as part of a broader ACMC capability, educational and preparedness plan.

They will exercise initiative and judgement in the interpretation of departmental policy and in the application of better practices and procedures. The successful candidate will have (or the ability to rapidly acquire) knowledge of and comply with, relevant legislative frameworks, government decision-making and the mission and strategic requirements of ACMC and Defence.

About our Team

The Australian Civil-Military Centre's (ACMC) mission is to strengthen Australian and regional civil-military-police capacity and capability to respond more effectively to crises and contingencies.

In implementing its mission, the ACMC promotes better practice civil-military-police coordination and interactions to achieve operational objectives. ACMC is a small dynamic organisation with approximately 25 staff drawn from permanent staff from the Department of Defence augmented by secondees from Australian Government departments and agencies, the New Zealand Government, and the Australian Council for International Development (Australia’s peak non-government sector body).

The Concepts and Capability Directorate brings together cross-agency programs on new and emerging civil-military-police concepts that support the development of civil-military-police coordination and capability through knowledge mobilisation, preparedness, lessons and evaluation, and humanitarian-government cooperation.

Our Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will have considerable lessons management and engagement skills and experience and be able to consult with domestic and regional stakeholders and partner agencies.

The candidate will be required to design, develop and deliver a civil-military-police coordination lessons management program and education and learning packages. They will be required to identify, anticipate and respond to stakeholder needs and expectations to achieve ACMC and Defence outcomes in Australia’s National Interests.

The successful candidate must be able to work collaboratively within a small team environment, build effective relationships with team members, explore the learning and knowledge outputs of ACMC and identify opportunities to mobilise those learnings, lessons and knowledge products including actively participating in group discussions and activities.

Application Closing Date: Monday 7 April, 2025

For further information please review the job information pack, reference JOC/02258/25 on https://defencecareers.nga.net.au/?jati=50DB7813-DC9F-6914-B487-E3A9F64A66C4.