The Role

Do you want a unique and exciting opportunity to apply your specialist knowledge and skills as a senior operational psychologist to help keep Australia secure from threats to national security? Are you an excellent communicator? Do you thrive in a multi-disciplinary team? Do you thrive in a high tempo and unique environment? Do you want to apply your psychological expertise in a truly unique role where every day brings new challenges?

This role is not a traditional psychologist job – it requires you to think outside the box and apply your scientific practice to a range of difficult yet interesting challenges. This role provides an exciting opportunity for you to use your expertise in an innovative and creative way to support offensive cyber operational mission areas. Key duties include:

1. Use psychological expertise to deliver assessments
2. Collaboratively and effectively engage operational teams across missions to provide consistent guidance and support to operations
3. Build and sustain effective relationships, and work collaboratively to represent and advocate for ASD.
4. Deliver training to ASD’s offensive cyber mission relevant to operational psychology.
5. Apply evidence-based resiliency practices, as well as develop processes and productive to facilitate resiliency, and support operational teams working in a high tempo, fast-paced environment

About our Team

Do you want to be part of a world leading capability in ASD’s offensive cyber mission?

Our team supports ASD’s offensive cyber mission in delivering best-practice psychological operational support. The team is a world leader in working in this unique operational space and offers opportunities to work with our domestic and international partners. We are a high-performing team, who leverage their specialised and multi-disciplinary skills to contribute to critical national security outcomes, in direct support of Australian government priorities. We prioritise providing professional development and learning opportunities within the national intelligence space.

Our Ideal Candidate

Career as a Senior Operational Psychologist at ASD is a unique and exciting opportunity to apply your specialist knowledge and skills to help keep Australia safe from threats to national security including terrorism, espionage and cyber.

As a Senior Psychologist, you’ll join an expert team who apply different aspects of psychology and behavioural science in protecting against global threats and supporting operations. Making psychology and behavioural science research and theory relevant and accessible is a core part of what we do.

We seek individuals with drive and innovation, an investigative and problem solving mindset, as well someone who has the flexibility and comfort to work within a fast-paced and high performing team-focused environment.

You will bring a solid experience of psychological practice to the work we do, and take an innovative approach to applying psychology to ASD’s mission.

ASD is seeking applicants to fill current and anticipated vacancies and to create a merit pool for future vacancies. In line with the Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Direction 2022, upon completion of the recruitment activity, the merit pool will be available to locations across Australia.

Application Closing Date: 11:30pm Sunday,14th September 2025

For further information please review the job information pack, reference ASD/06517/25 on www.defence.gov.au/apscareers.