Learning and Development Officers - Canberra, Australia - Department of Finance

Department of Finance

Verified Company

Canberra, Australia

1 week ago

Posted by:

Olivia Brown

beBee Recruiter

Description

Commercial & Government Services Group / Procurement & Insurance Division / Future Made in Australia Office Branch

APS 5 ($82,535 $92,609),APS 6 ($90,802 $110,821) | Ongoing & Nonongoing | Fulltime & Parttime
Canberra, ACT

ABOUT THE BRANCH & SECTION

The Future Made in Australia Office (the Office) is responsible for coordinating delivery of the Australian Government's election commitments under the Buy Australian Plan.

The Office is driving engagement with Australian businesses and industry groups to maximise opportunities to participate in Australian Government procurement and contracts.

The Office is implementing procurement reform through three streams of activity:

Governance and Coordination
Procurement and Contract Management Capability
Commonwealth, State and Industry Engagement.

The advertised roles will be within the Procurement and Contract Management Capability stream. This section is tasked with driving capability improvement in procurement and contract management across the APS.

Applications are strongly encouraged from outside of the Australian Public Service.

Key deliverables and priorities of the Procurement and Contract Management Capability section include:

identifying or implementing better practice procurement and contracting capability models for deployment across the APS,

- development of curriculum and, along with the Australian Public Service Commission, delivery of APS training in procurement and contract management to entities, which includes development of a pathway to procurement professionalisation,
- driving strategic and practitioner engagement across the APS through targeted events including large forums and showcase events,
- enhancing and expanding the Centre of Procurement Excellence to encompass contract management capability,
- ongoing measurement of enterprise level procurement and contracting capability via an annual entity self-assessment survey, and
- developing and maintaining self-help tools and web-based content for procurement and contracting practitioners and leaders.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

The Procurement and Contract Management Capability team in the Future Made in Australia Office is seeking Learning and Development Officers at the APS5 and APS6 level for the development and delivery of the procurement and contract management capability uplift program (the program) across the APS.

The program will target officials at all levels of experience including new starters in the APS as well as experienced procurers and contract managers.

The program will also target procurement and contract management training capability across the APS with train the trainer sessions for officials delivering procurement training.

The program will employ a range of delivery methods including face to face workshops, virtual workshops (for those working remotely), e-learning modules, and short form and long form video content.

There are several non-ongoing positions for a period of 12 months with a focus on developing training materials and content including working with third-party suppliers on the instructional design for both e-learning modules and short and long form content.

The ongoing positions will be for the delivery of the program across the APS which may include delivering training, maintaining training materials and training content, and working with host agencies to administer the learning management system.

These Learning and Development Officers will be responsible for:

Development of training, assessment and associated resources including storyboards for e-learning training content, training presentations and participant workbooks for workshops, and trainer guides.

Develop and maintain a training curriculum and an annual schedule/calendar for delivery.

Deliver the facetoface training components including effectively leading and guiding training programs involving group discussions, activities and exercises to ensure that learners achieve their learning objectives.
Support the continuous improvement of the capability uplift program and all associated training programs and providing oversight of course critique activities and lead followup activities to improve training delivery.
Perform governance activities for the training capability including tracking, collating and reporting of key performance indicators.
Establish relationships and work with both internal and external stakeholders ranging from leadership group members to key contracts in other agencies and external suppliers.
Liaise with and engage Registered Training Operators to deliver bespoke training packages for procurement.
Manage training booking schedule and advertising of training.

DETAILED VACANCY INFORMATION

For detailed information about these roles, including the job specific capabilities, please refer to the downloadable vacancy pack, which can be accessed by clicking the hyperlink at the bottom of this page.

**ELIGIBILITY ADVICE & CANDID