Description : Organisation Performance and Reporting. Company : National Library of Australia. Location : Canberra ACT

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EL1 - Assistant Director, Organisation Performance and Reporting

• Support the Council and provide secretariat services
• Lead Departmental Portfolio Coordination and parliamentary liaison activities for the Library
• We are seeking a highly organised person who can operate effectively under pressure and meet deadlines

The National Library of Australia is seeking fill the important role of Assistant Director, Organisation Performance and Reporting. This is a great opportunity to hone your governance experience in a small agency where you will build and maintain excellent stakeholder relationships.

Reporting to the Library’s Governance Director, and working as part of a small team, you will have people, program and stakeholder management responsibilities.

• Lead Departmental Portfolio Coordination and parliamentary liaison activities for the Library.
• Support Council and provides secretariat services – schedule, agendas, papers and minutes.
• Coordinate Library accountability planning and reporting program (PBS, Corporate Plan, annual performance statement, annual report, KPIs).
• Support development and implementation of the Library’s integrated business planning and risk management framework and processes.
• Prepare briefings, submissions and responses to requests ensuring comprehensive, accurate and timely written information.

In this role, you will work with a considerable degree of independence, under broad direction and:

• Be highly organised, with the ability to adapt to a dynamic workload, work independently, operate effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Have expertise in the PGPA act and the Commonwealth performance framework.
• Be able to confidently undertake secretariat and coordination activities, supporting high level stakeholders and committees.
• Have the ability to influence and liaise with internal and external senior stakeholders.
• Have high level written and oral communication skills, to ensure the provision of high-quality documentation and advice to support agency decision making.

To be suitable for this role, you must have qualifications or equivalent experience in relevant field such as business, audit, corporate governance or public sector accountability.

You must be able to obtain and maintain a baseline security clearance.

A merit pool may be established from this recruitment activity which may be used to fill similar vacancies at the Library.

We encourage and welcome applications from people with disability, First Nations Peoples, those from the LGBTIQA+ community, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and mature age people.