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The TeamThe Parliamentary, Governance and Assurance section sits within the Deputy Electoral Commissioners Office. The section brings together three critical functions that ensures effective service delivery to portfolio ministers and Parliament, strong governance with integrity, and confidence in achieving business objectives. The sections role is pivotal in maintaining the integrity of operations across the agency and dedicated to providing high-quality support to both internal and external stakeholders to achieve this.The OpportunityAs a Governance Officer, you will be providing critical secretariat support and services to a range of key committees within the AECs governance framework. Utilising your expertise in administrative and operational support, you will provide a critical coordination function that enables governance committees to make decisions in the pursuit of achieving agency outcomes.You will have an opportunity to develop and maintain key internal and external stakeholder relationships, especially when coordinating key pieces of work across the agency and through the provision of advice on best practice governance operations.In this role, you will contribute to effective governance through maintaining committee forward workplans, preparation of meeting agendas, drafting meeting minutes, administration of action and decision registers and contributing to correspondences, papers, briefings and reports.If you enjoy building relationships and working as part of a high performing team that is focused on providing and maintaining quality outputs and technical proficiency in governance arrangements, you will thrive on the opportunity to provide advice and contribute to outcomes. You will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing success of the team by conducting reviews, identify issues and offering innovative solutions where opportunities for improvement are identified.To excel youll have:Demonstrate excellent organisational skills and the ability to undertake tasks methodically and to a high level of accuracy.Possess excellent analytical skills when dealing with moderately complex information and the ability to provide timely and accurate advice or support based on the findings.Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively within a team, and to build and maintain key relationships with key stakeholders at all seniority levels.Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills, especially a high attention of detail when disseminating critical information.Demonstrate personal integrity whilst achieving results within legislative and policy parameters.DesirableKnowledge of, or ability to, quickly gain knowledge of Australian electoral law and practice.Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly gain knowledge of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 and related frameworks.EligibilityAEC employees must be Australian citizens.Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs, and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the security clearance required for this role.Due Date: Sunday 6 July 2025, 11:59pm AESTContact Person: Jo Taylor Jo,Taylor@aec.gov.au #J-18808-Ljbffr