Governance - Canberra, Australia - National Library of Australia

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APS- Program Manager, Governance:

A great opportunity to hone your governance experience in a small agency
Support departmental portfolio coordination and parliamentary liaison activities
Do you have excellent corporate governance or secretariat skills?

The National Library of Australia is seeking fill the important role of
APS6 Program Manager Governance.

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 Assistant Director, Organisational Performance and Reporting and working as part of a small team, you will have people, program and stakeholder management responsibilities.

In this role, your duties will include:

Supporting departmental portfolio coordination and parliamentary liaison activities for the Library.
Providing secretariat support services for the Library's key committees
Providing coordination support for the Library's accountability planning and reporting program (PBS, Corporate Plan, annual performance statement, annual report, KPIs).
Preparing briefings, submissions and responses to requests ensuring comprehensive, accurate and timely written information.

In this role, you will work under broad direction and:

Be highly organised, with the ability to adapt to a dynamic workload, operate effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
Demonstrate knowledge of the PGPA act and the Commonwealth procurement framework.
Be able to confidently undertake secretariat and coordination activities, supporting high level stakeholders and committees.
Negotiate with a variety of stakeholders to manage workloads, timeframes, expectations and escalated enquiries.
Have high level written and oral communication skills, to ensure the provision of highquality documentation and advice to support agency decision making.
Demonstrate the ability to work independently and effectively in a team, contribute to shared outcomes and implement solutions to problems and support others.

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.

Corporate governance or secretariat experience is highly desirable.

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