Digital Identity Privacy Regulatory Preparedness – Temporary Employment Register

APS5 – EL1 Opportunities

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is running a project to prepare for its role as the privacy regulator for Australia’s expanding Digital ID system.

To help staff the project team, OAIC is seeking expressions of interest to fill temporary roles on the project team at the APS5 to EL1 levels. Candidates with a regulatory, legal, or policy background would be ideally suited to a role in the team.

The Opportunities

Are you up to the challenge of safeguarding Australians’ privacy and information rights?

The Australian Government is developing a legislative framework for an economy-wide Digital ID system. Individuals will be able to create a Digital ID and then reuse it, helping reduce the need to take ID documents to a government shop front, and replace using multiple logins to access different government services.

The OAIC has commenced a Digital ID privacy implementation project to prepare the OAIC for its role as privacy regulator for the Digital ID system.

As the privacy regulator of the Digital Identity System, OAIC will be responsible for matters including:

• enforcing privacy safeguards for Digital ID
• undertaking assessments (audits) within the Digital ID system
• receiving reports of data breaches from accredited entities within the system
• handling complaints about interferences with individuals’ rights to privacy
• providing privacy advice, and publishing regulatory guidance, about privacy issues for Digital ID.

The small OAIC project team works is applying an Agile project management approach to its work.

About the Roles

We are seeking highly motivated individuals who enjoy working in a team, are driven, and outcomes focussed.  You will be required to carry out duties including:

• Undertake research and analysis to provide high quality strategic policy and regulatory advice, and develop written material such as published guidance, briefing papers, and submissions
• Work with internal stakeholders and with external stakeholders, including government agencies, international counterparts, businesses and the community, and maintain and build productive professional relationships
• Engage and collaborate with colleagues across the office to help develop systems updates and create training materials and internal resources.

At the EL1 level, Assistant Directors will additionally be expected to have overall responsibility for one or more of the workstreams of the Digital ID project.

Further detailed duty statements can be found below:

• APS 5 and APS 6 Projects and Policy Officer
• EL1 Assistant Director, Digital ID (Workstream lead)

Job Specific Capabilities, Skills & Experience

Applications from individuals with a wide range of backgrounds will be considered. We are seeking

applications from candidates with the following:

• Qualifications, skills or experience in public policy, project management, regulatory systems design, public communications or stakeholder engagement
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with influence
• Ability to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to take initiative and work under limited direction
• Confidence and comfortability working with uncertainty
• Be a strong team player.

These duties will be performed in accordance with the APS Code of Conduct and APS Values and OAIC policies, including Workplace Diversity and Work Health and Safety. Under section 25 of the Public Service Act 1999 the OAIC may re-assign the duties of an employee from time to time.

Position location

The OAIC operates a hybrid work model with a combination of remote working and office attendance.  We will consider candidate applications from all locations within Australia.

The OAIC values face-to-face interaction and fostering connection between our people and with our stakeholders. The OAIC’s hybrid work model expects in office attendance when the type of work or task is better suited to being completed from an office, for example, staff inductions and onboarding, planning days, relationship building activities and project or collaborative work.

Employment offers

• Employment offers from this recruitment register can only be used to fill non-ongoing opportunities and cannot be used to engage ongoing or for promotions.
• Existing APS employees may be offered temporary transfers subject to release.

Eligibility

• Section 22 of the Public Service Act 1999 requires that APS employees must be Australian citizens.
• There are restrictions on employment of people who have, within the previous 12 months, accepted a redundancy benefit from an APS agency or a non-APS Commonwealth employer.
• For the duration of your employment with the OAIC you will be required to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance meet required background, identification and character checks. This position currently requires a Baseline clearance.
• Note: All duties are to be performed in accordance with the APS Code of Conduct and APS Values and OAIC policies, including Workplace Diversity and Work Health and Safety. Under section 25 of the Public Service Act 1999 the OAIC may re-assign the duties of an employee from time to time.

How to Apply

If you would like to register for this temporary employment register, please send an email to jobs@oaic.gov.au with the following:

• Your CV (maximum 3 pages).
• A one-page pitch outlining your interest in the role:
  • Your pitch can be in any word or PDF format and contain any information you think is most persuasive, but as a general guide, might describe you, why you are interested in the role, and why you are the right person for it.
  • Please specify the classification(s) you are interested in.
• A completed application form (contained in the job pack).
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