Job Description Agency: Department of Corrections Work Unit: Office of the Chief Executive Officer/Commissioner Job Title: Director, Office of the Chief Executive Designation: Senior Administrative Officer 2 Officer / Commissioner: Executive Contract Officer 1 Job Type: Full time Duration: Ongoing, Fixed for up to 4 years Salary: SAO2 - $148,302 - $161,638 Location: Darwin Remuneration Package: ECO1 - $226,322 Position Number: 46905 RTF 306240 Closing Date: 08/10/2024 Contact Officer: Matthew Varley, CEO/Commissioner on 08 8985 7465 or Matthew. ****** About the Agency: https://justice.nt.gov.au/Application Process: Apply online at https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/Job Details?rtf Id=306240. Applications must include a one-page summary about you, a detailed resume, and copies of your tertiary qualifications. Inclusion and Diversity: The NTPS values diversity and encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies. Reasonable workplace adjustments will be made for people with disabilities. Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. Primary Objective: The Director leads and manages the Office of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) / Commissioner, provides strategic advice and support to the Commissioner/CEO, and drives initiatives, strategies, and projects to directly support the CEO/Commissioner. The Director operates in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and may require out-of-hours work and travel. Key Duties and Responsibilities: Lead and manage a team to deliver high-quality executive support and expert advice to the Commissioner/CEO, including the planning, coordination, and delivery of briefings on operational, policy, media, legislative, and stakeholder issues. Lead a team providing Secretariat and government relations support to the department's Executive Management Group and support the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners during Ministerial and/or Cabinet related meetings as required. Build and maintain high-level collaborative networks and relationships with senior departmental, ministerial, other government staff, and external stakeholders, drawing on these relationships to facilitate outcomes, including overseeing stakeholder requests, Freedom of Information requests, and complaint management processes. Research, analyze, prepare, and quality assure correspondence, presentations, reports, and ministerial submissions for the CEO/Commissioner and maintain oversight of all Ministerial and Cabinet correspondence prepared by the Department. Represent the CEO/Commissioner in internal and external forums as required. Selection Criteria: Essential: Highly developed leadership and management skills, ability to effectively negotiate issues of performance and service delivery, and the ability to work in partnerships to achieve and drive outcomes to meet corporate objectives. Superior interpersonal skills, including communicating with influence at senior levels, and the ability to negotiate successful outcomes across a range of audiences and diverse stakeholders on complex and sensitive issues. A demonstrated record of building effective and high-level networks and relationships with senior officials and government stakeholders, with success in leveraging these relationships to facilitate solutions in a complex, multidisciplinary organization. Demonstrated superior levels of integrity, judgment, acumen, and critical thinking skills, with the ability to deal appropriately with matters of a highly sensitive or confidential nature. Superior organizational skills, including the ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and manage competing and changing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic operational environment with complex risks. Demonstrated capability to work closely with senior executives to deliver on an agency's strategy and operational objectives. Desirable: Extensive knowledge of government processes. Tertiary studies in a relevant field. Strong experience and knowledge of the criminal justice system in the Northern Territory, and the role of Corrections. Further Information: The preferred applicant/s will be required to complete a pre-employment questionnaire, and the successful applicant/s will be required to undergo a criminal history check (confirmed by fingerprints and name check) prior to commencement of employment. An adverse criminal history will not necessarily exclude an applicant from this position. All employees are subject to random drug and alcohol testing.
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