Total Salary Package: $137,231.12 - $164,720.40 incl. 4% Service Allowance (plus 15.4% Super)
Canberra - ACT

The Role

ASD is recruiting for Executive Level 2 (EL2) Facilities Program Directors, Estate Project Directors & Estate Program Directors. You will play a critical role in designing, supporting and enhancing the infrastructure that supports one of the largest organisations within the National Intelligence Community.

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:

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.

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.

Estate Project/Program Directors - The focus one 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.

Your responsibilities and duties will vary depending on your selected role. They may include:

Provide strategic and / or technical leadership to project activities
Manage or contribute to the day to day running of a site or group of sites within a region or community precinct
Engage with customers and stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes for your team
Contribute to knowledge sharing and the positive growth and development of your fellow team members
Contribute to and assist with all areas of accommodation projects including planning, design, construction and initiation phases
Demonstrate an understanding of the estate planning and development process
Manage or contribute to the relocation of ASD officers affected by projects
Project management of facility projects the majority of which are office fit outs.
Work collaboratively with contractors, project staff and stakeholders
Contribute to planning, financial, procurement, contractual and operational requirements of projects
Create, and maintain a process that helps prevent, minimise, and recover from threats to ASD’s mission and operations
Provide advice to the executive on issues that pose a risk across all existing and potential projects
On-site quality management of project deliverables ensuring that facilities are being delivered in accordance to the statement of works and all security requirements are being met
Contribute in strategic executive planning meetings for long term organisational direction in regards to accommodation
Liaise with stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure project direction is adhering to the overall project aim and scope
Liaise with sections across ASD to ensure ICT networks and hardware meet accommodation requirements.

Further information can be found at: I’m changing my career | Australian Signals Directorate (asd.gov.au)

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.

Are you a person who enjoys planning for the future and wants to make a difference? Do you want to be part of a dynamic team that is delivering the next generation of facilities that will support ASDs future growth? Are you a leader that thrives on tackling problems in innovative and creative ways?

If you want to be driving the planning and development of future estates or delivering on the daily operations of facilities, ASD’s growth under REDSPICE (Resilience, Effects, Defence, Space, Intelligence, Cyber, Enablers), will provide the perfect opportunity for you to showcase your skills.

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.

Our Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidates are exceptional people leaders, able to lead a diverse and nationally dispersed team to achieve organisational outcomes.

Our ideal candidate will possess:

Strong positive communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively to their team and the ASD Senior Executive Service.
Proven experience in leading diversified teams.
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
Sound understanding of your specialisation i.e. business continuity, accommodation, project and program management or facilities services.
Awareness of government strategy and policies.
Knowledge and experience to contribute to the design, analysis, evaluation and resolution of complex program matters.
A willingness to travel
Have, or be willing to, obtain and hold specific licences such as white card, asbestos awareness, silica awareness, forklift, truck (HR) licence

ASD is seeking applicants to fill current and anticipated vacancies and to create a merit pool for future vacancies.

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