The Team

The Parliamentary, Governance and Assurance section sits within the Deputy Electoral Commissioner’s Office. The section brings together three critical functions that ensures effective service delivery to portfolio ministers and Parliament, strong governance with integrity, and confidence in achieving business objectives. The section’s role is pivotal in maintaining the integrity of operations across the agency and dedicated to providing high-quality support to both internal and external stakeholders to achieve this.

The Opportunities

As Senior Governance Officers, you will be playing a vital role in supporting the team and broader section’s objectives in maintaining effective corporate governance and operational excellence within the AEC.

In this role, you will manage all aspects of committee meetings, including oversight of meeting administration, paper coordination and development of meeting minutes for key corporate committees, subcommittee’s and working groups.

You will contribute to and support continued improvement of AEC governance arrangements. This includes preparing moderately complex correspondence, papers, briefings, and reports that help support a culture of continuous improvement, identifying issues and innovative solutions. You will make and communicate decisions using professional judgement, evaluating risk and in the context of a complex and dynamic environment.

If you enjoy building relationships from senior management to operational stakeholders, you will thrive on the opportunity to provide expert technical and operational advice and guidance to key management committees and agency stakeholders.

Contributing to various agency priorities and supporting a high performing team will enable you build on both your personal and staff development skills.

To excel you’ll have:

• Knowledge and experience in the areas of corporate governance and a willingness to obtain qualifications in this area.
• Demonstrated ability to complete work and projects within dedicated timeframes, using problem solving skills and identify areas for improvement and suggest innovative solutions.
• Ability to supervise team members at lower classifications, ensuring effective and efficient outputs, capacity building and development.
• Ability to build effective relationships and communicate effectively with stakeholders, whilst anticipating their needs and expectations across a geographically dispersed network.
• Ability to apply analytical skills to solve complex problems and use well-developed communication skills to provide clear concise advice, propose and facilitate change and contribute to business improvement strategies.
• A high degree of integrity, judgement and professionalism, with demonstrated ability to exercise good judgement and impartial advice to make decisions based on legislation, guidelines, policy and best practice.

Desirable

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in corporate governance, public administration or similar.
• Knowledge of, or ability to, quickly gain knowledge of Australian electoral law and practice.

Eligibility

• AEC employees must be Australian citizens.
• Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs, and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.
• Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.
• Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the security clearance required for this role.

Due date: Sunday 13 July 2025, 11:59pm AEST

Contact person: Jade Woodhouse, [email protected]