Principal Policy Officer – Education Queensland Insights Platform (EQIP) Program Change

The Department of Education is looking for an organised and self-driven professional, with demonstrated experience in leading the effective functioning of governance arrangements through the delivery of high-quality secretariat services to executive stakeholders, enabling effective decision making and provision of advice. If you enjoy being part of a collaborative, fast-paced working environment, working with diverse stakeholders, like to keep processes running efficiently, and thrive on continuous improvement to ensure high quality outputs, we would love to hear from you.

About The Department

The Department of Education are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

About The Role

The Principal Policy Officer (AO8) will be responsible for managing and coordinating the development of high-quality policy papers, briefs, submissions, reports and other material to meet the governance priorities, in the area of information, data and analytics, for a range of committees and senior executives. This important work is emerging from a large, multi-year, priority program being implemented to enhance the governance of information and expand the use of data and analytics across the Department. This role will have the opportunity to engage in this exciting field and play a key role in supporting the progress and embedding of this essential work.

This includes overseeing the effective operations and secretariat function for key project, program and enterprise governance bodies established to lead and mature the department's approach to information governance and data and analytics.

Interested? To Apply:

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
• Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).

The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace.  Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.

Occupational group Policy & Planning