The Role
The Business Continuity & Facilities Branch strives to provide ASD with fit-for-purpose infrastructure, facilities services, business continuity, and emergency management solutions. As a collective, our goal is to support ASD’s mission by contributing to the continuous improvement of the organisation’s estate, assets and work environment. Our key responsibilities include estate planning, accommodation management, business continuity, emergency management, and facilities services.
The successful candidates will take an equally active role in both project work and business as usual activities and help pave the way for ASD’s future facilities landscape.
You will work in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects related to:
Facilities Services - maintaining ASD’s physical assets and facilities to enable the workforce to conduct their work in an optimal setting. Achieving this through the management of contracts that support the upkeep of our growing estate and delivering a range of mission-enabling services. Facilities Services is the largest section in the Branch, and one that is growing in response to ASD’s rapidly expanding estate.
Business Continuity and Emergency Management - focuses on ensuring ASD can continue to conduct day-to-day operations that help to achieve the organisation’s mission. Pro-actively assess, identify, and address factors that have the potential to impact core-business functions. Providing the organisation with the knowledge, and resources needed to safeguard our workforce, and capabilities in the event of an emergency.
National Accommodation Management – ensuring ASD has equitable access to accommodation to enable the expansion of capabilities, and therefore resilience across the nation. A key part of this work involves building, and updating our understanding of ASD’s strategic agenda, changes in our operating environment, and the unique needs of the workforce. With careful and considered planning, drawing on these insights to manage real estate, accommodation requests, movements of different teams, and facility asset allocation.
Estate Project/Program Directors - The focus of these roles will be across two major streams of work. The first and main component will be designing and building a new multi-classification building in the ACT Region. The second component is activities in support of this project – meeting urgent demand for temporary low side accommodation, and medium and long-term activities to consolidate staff and capability into the precinct. The second role will have a focus on the delivery of state offices around Australia, which includes construction oversight, programme scheduling, and project management. This role is part of a section playing a critical role in delivering on ASD’s growing footprint across the country.
ASD4 Program Officer:
- Accountable for organising their workflow, making decisions within their defined parameters relating to area of responsibility and will seek guidance when required.
- Engage with customers and stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes for the team.
- Interpret and comply with business processes and legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks.
ASD5 Program Officer:
- Accountable under routine direction to perform and achieve moderately complex facilities tasks within an integrated workforce
- Making independent decisions relating to their area of responsibility.
- Engage with customers and stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes for the team.
- Identify and contribute to business process improvement activities.
- Interpret and comply with business processes and legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks.
About our Team
ASD is entering an exciting phase of growth, innovation and transformation. Our agency has committed to delivering REDSPICE, which is the most significant single investment in the Australian Signals Directorate’s 75 years.
Our Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have a broad knowledge of facilities management, project and program management and/or security policies. Your knowledge and experience will be used to contribute to the design, analysis, evaluation and resolution of moderately complex building and facilities matters. The successful candidates will take an equally active role in both project work and business as usual activities and help pave the way for ASD’s future facilities landscape.
Our ideal candidate will:
- contribute to the development of strategies that promote continuous improvement and deliver effective business solutions;
- communicates effectively providing clear and detailed advice to a variety of audiences;
- build and maintain strong professional relationships to achieve desired outcomes;
- analyse and interpret data to monitor agency performance, operational and workplace issues; and
- support the implementation of project and change management strategies.
ASD is seeking applicants to fill current and anticipated vacancies and to create a merit pool for future vacancies.
Application Closing Date: Sunday 8 September, 2024
For further information please review the job information pack, reference ASD/07143/24 on https://www.asd.gov.au/careers