Director-General - Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child SafetyAs a chief executive in the Queensland Government, you will play a significant role in influencing the execution and successful delivery of the government's commitments and vision for Queensland.
Accountable to the Premier of Queensland and reporting to the responsible Minister, you will contribute to delivering outcomes for Queenslanders.
You will do this through your strategic vision, focused leadership, and transforming the implementation of policies, priorities, services or programs of the elected government.
As the Director-General of Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety (DFSDSCS) you will lead the department to achieve their objectives:
Enable families to safely care for their children and young people, and provide services to support the safety, belonging and wellbeing needs of children and young people not able to be cared for by their families.Reduce the disproportionate representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the child protection system.Deliver high quality programs, services and safeguards and promote the inclusion, rights and social and economic participation of seniors, carers and people with disability.Deliver highly effective strategies and integrated responses to domestic, family and sexual violence.Foster safe and connected communities and deliver accessible, timely and responsive community services and support for Queenslanders.As the Director-General of DFSDSCS you will:
Provide strategic leadership that demonstrates a clear and compelling vision of communication, governance and values-based management to the department and its employees.Preserve and build productive working relationships with stakeholders, identifying tactful and diplomatic management practices to support their differing and competing requirements and priorities.Mobilise effective and efficient governance, administration and operation of the department, fostering an environment of accountability for the performance of its functions and associated outcomes.Coordinate the appropriate services required to ensure the Minister is positioned to deliver the priorities set out in the Ministerial Charter Letter for the Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety.Pursue with transparency, the administration of the departments legislation as set out below to promote their purpose, encouraging innovation through understanding of the principal responsibilities required to deliver the Queensland Government's objectives.Model to the highest level, the standards of ethical behaviour operating with transparency in decision making, establishing consistency for the application of these practices.Lead through awareness, demonstrating clear rationale to exemplary problem solving and decision-making practices, encouraging the sectors ongoing commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.The Queensland Government is committed to inclusive and diverse practices which ensures people living with disability, women, people who identify as LGBTIQ+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have equal opportunity to apply and participate.
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