About the Role
As an APS5 Workforce Operations Officer, you will provide essential administrative and operational support across all recruitment and onboarding activities within the Reviews and Information Release and Chief Counsel Divisions.
You’ll work closely with internal Recruitment Business Partners, Workforce Procurement, and other stakeholders to coordinate end-to-end recruitment processes. This is a busy and fast-paced environment requiring strong attention to detail, a proactive mindset, and the ability to juggle multiple priorities.

Key Duties

• Build and maintain strong relationships across business units and recruitment teams
• Coordinate recruitment activities including scheduling interviews, collating selection reports, and requesting references
• Manage onboarding and offboarding tasks such as ICT access, building passes, and internal communications
• Monitor shared mailboxes and assign internal work items appropriately
• Handle sensitive and confidential information with professionalism
• Provide general high-level administrative support across the recruitment lifecycle

About You You’ll be a team player with excellent communication skills and a knack for organisation. Ideally, you’ll bring:

• Demonstrated experience supporting high-volume recruitment or workforce coordination
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple competing deadlines
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)
• Experience using recruitment platforms such as eRecruit (Acendre) is highly regarded
• A flexible, proactive and solutions-focused approach
• Previous experience working within the Australian Public Service (beneficial)
• Familiarity with public sector recruitment processes and compliance
• A collaborative and adaptable working style

To Apply:
In order to be considered applicants are required to hold Australian Citizenship and if successful will be required undergo a Federal Government Security Process.

If this sounds like the role for you, please submit an updated copy of your resume in MS Word format by hitting APPLY NOW or call Katyaon (03) 8632 9964 for more information.

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DFP welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability. In addition, DFP will provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability throughout the recruitment process. If you identify as a person with disability and require adjustments to the application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please advise via [email protected] or 1300 337 000 and indicate your preferred method of communication (email, phone, text) so we can keep in touch and meet your accessibility needs.

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