The Role

Are you passionate and interested in people, culture and workforce planning? Do you build strong stakeholder relationships? We are looking for an individual who will help develop Navy’s Australia Public Service (APS) workforce planning activities and support Navy’s APS culture and people.

Navy is required to deliver crucial outcomes to support Defence’s mission. This requires careful planning of its APS workforce to ensure we have the right people, in the right jobs, at the right time. A key component of Navy’s workforce planning involves providing a positive workplace culture for its people. By helping Navy be a great place to work, Navy wishes to retain its current people and attract new valued employees.?

Key duties to support these activities in this role include:

• Navy’s APS Culture Plan and its initiatives
• Navy’s APS Strategic Workforce Plan
• Change management
• Navy input to strategic documents.

About our Team

The Directorate of Navy Australian Public Service (APS) Workforce Intelligence and Planning is a Navy-wide resource that is responsible for various workforce planning activities for Navy’s APS workforce. We operate as the conduit between Navy’s teams and Defence People Group and other Defence areas on APS workforce matters. We work with Navy’s Divisions to achieve workforce planning objectives and are the APS workforce Subject Matter Experts within Navy.

Due to our large remit (whole of Navy), the Directorate has extensive visibility and stakeholder networks throughout Navy and across the Department. We offer the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills in HR, strategic planning, change management and more.

The Directorate is located in Canberra, ACT and offers access to flexible working conditions to support work life balance and an attractive remuneration package, including a generous superannuation contribution of 15.4%.

Our Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Time management – Excellent time management skills and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities and deadlines with limited direction.
• Relationship building – Proactively builds and sustains collaborative and mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Agility and adaptability – Willing and able to quickly change between tasks and manage competing priorities.
• Analysis – Analyses and interprets data.
• Strategy/initiative formulation – Assist the development of initiatives to improve key identified workforce issues.
• Strategic direction – Understands organisational goals and objectives, applies them to own work and clearly communicates these in written, visual and oral formats.
• Proactivity – Analyses the work environment and proactively seeks out opportunities contribute to team objectives.
• Continuous improvement – Supports the continuous improvement of business relationships, processes, policies, frameworks and systems.
• Self-development – Committed to self-development and willing to challenge positions and learn from mistakes.
• Calmness – Able to remain calm and positive in pressurised situations.

Application Closing Date: Thursday 1 May 2025.

For further information please review the job information pack, reference NAVY/02599/25 on https://defencecareers.nga.net.au/?jati=7855552D-EBAE-6CF3-6B56-E3C013C5567A