About you

• Are you passionate about contributing to the excellence of Australian higher education?
• Are you a strategic thinker with a drive for innovation and collaboration?
• Do you want to work in a challenging, dynamic, and rewarding environment that is mission-focused?

About the position

As an APS6 Senior Policy Officer in the Policy and Research Team you will, working under limited direction, analyse and interpret complex information to provide advice and recommendations to a range of stakeholders. The stakeholders you will do this for include decision makers, other internal staff, and external stakeholders. You will also support TEQSA in identifying issues and emerging risks impacting the sector, as well as planning and implementing projects and initiatives to address these issues.

The key duties of the position include:

The core duties of the APS6 Senior Policy Officer role include:

• Leading the development and implementation of strategic projects and initiatives to enhance TEQSA’s regulatory capability and improving guidance to and support for, the higher education sector relating to compliance with the ESOS and TEQSA frameworks
• Undertaking complex research and where required, coordinating responses from internal and external stakeholders to identify and report on issues impacting TEQSA and the higher education sector, as well as evaluating and recommending strategies to address these issues
• Drafting high quality and concise advice briefs, presentations, and reports for a range of audiences to facilitate positive, timely communications with stakeholders and enable effective internal reporting and decision making
• Liaising and consulting with internal and external stakeholders to foster positive, collegial, and effective working relationships as well as facilitating knowledge sharing to enhance TEQSA’s intelligence capability 
• Contributing to the ongoing achievement of the Policy, Research and Engagement Group’s corporate and business planning objectives
• Working effectively and collaboratively in a team, managing competing priorities and requests while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail, solving problems, and providing advice, training and support to others as required.

Eligibility

The successful applicant must:

• Be an Australian citizen
• Complete a National Police Check satisfactorily
• Be able to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency (AGSVA) clearance to Baseline status, supported by TEQSA.

Failure to satisfy any of the above conditions may result in the withdrawal of an offer of employment or termination of employment.

Notes

• This recruitment process is being used to fill multiple vacancies
• A merit pool of suitable applicants will be created from this process and may be used to fill similar ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies within TEQSA. It is active for 18 months from the date of this advertisement.

RecruitAbility applies to this vacancy. Under the RecruitAbility scheme you will be invited to participate in further assessment activity for the vacancy if you choose to apply under the scheme; declare you have a disability; and meet the minimum requirements for the job. For more information visit: here.