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The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) is seeking an experienced leader with strong fiscal and economic policy expertise, complemented by great management skills. In this role, you will help shape and drive the PBOs publications and costings work and assist with stakeholder engagement. Your management experience will help foster a collaborative team ethos across SES and other leadership cohorts. Reporting to the First Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer, you will contribute to key projects, including major publications, building analytical capability in the organisation, enhancing public understanding of the budget and fiscal transparency, and supporting organisation-wide initiatives and corporate functions. You will work closely with your SES colleagues to provide leadership across the PBO. You will take responsibility for managing change though engagement and consultation. You will use your strong people focus, including the ability to motivate, inspire and develop organisational capability and performance, to drive outcomes for the PBO. Your leadership, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills will empower staff to achieve high performance by setting clear expectations and creating a shared vision aligned with the PBOs purpose. Together with other SES you will build productive relationships with parliamentarians and external stakeholders, including Commonwealth agencies, peak bodies, academics, and industry leaders, ensuring the PBO draws on expertise from diverse sources. As part of the Executive team, you will play an integral role in setting and communicating the strategic direction of the organisation. The Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer provides intellectual leadership in the PBOs fiscal policy work and supports the head of the agency (the Parliamentary Budget Officer) to deliver the PBOs functions. In the year ahead, particular focus areas will be: continuing to deliver high quality costings and budget advice for parliamentarians introducing new members and senators to PBO services maturing our data systems and developing new models in partnership with Commonwealth agencies focusing on harnessing technology to maximise efficient use of data across our modelling, reporting and data visualisation work enhancing knowledge of budget and broader fiscal issues through insightful publications and online tools. The key duties of the position include:As a member of the PBOs senior management team, the Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officers duties will include: managing a team to deliver costings, budget analysis and publications for the PBO providing intellectual leadership for the work of the PBO strategic prioritisation of work to ensure that the PBOs limited resources are used effectively providing professional, strategic and operational leadership and expertise across the organisation representing the Parliamentary Budget Office to stakeholders, parliamentary committees and in Australian and international forums Performing other duties as required by the Parliamentary Budget Officer. EligibilitySuccessful applicants will have: strong leadership credentials and extensive management experience relevant tertiary qualifications knowledge of the structure of the Commonwealth budget and an understanding of the drivers of Commonwealth revenue and expenditure (essential) a track record of innovation in relation to the use and presentation of data (desirable) the ability to work with utmost discretion and confidentiality the ability to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting Level 1 security clearance. Getting to know the Parliamentary Budget OfficeThe Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) supports the Parliament by providing independent and non-partisan analysis of the budget cycle, fiscal policy and the financial implications of proposals. We do this in 3 main ways: - responding to requests made by senators and members for costings of policy proposals or for analysis of matters relating to the Australian Governments budget - publishing a report after every election that provides transparency around the fiscal impact of the election commitments of major parties - conducting and publishing self-initiated work, including interactive tools, that enhance public understanding of budget and fiscal policy settings.