The Role
Key Duties of Director:
Leadership of a small team, shaping relationships between Defence and international partners, underpinning information and capability sharing through strategic management of security related agreements.
Use deep knowledge and understanding of the underpinning requirements for securing classified information, supported by experience performing complex negotiations, progress updates to information sharing agreements.
Apply disciplined risk management practices pertaining to security risks associated with activities involving foreign nationals and international partners.
Champion a culture of security risk awareness, curiosity and proactive engagement across the Defence enterprise.
Establish and grow relationships across the Defence enterprise, wider Australian government and the international Defence community.
About our Team
The International Security Policy team establishes and maintains the currency of Security of Information Agreements and Arrangements that are used to enable to secure sharing of classified information between Australia and a foreign government, Defence or entity.
Our Ideal Candidate
We are seeking a collaborative and outcomes-focused leader with demonstrated senior executive level experience in building relationships,



influencing, navigating complex and ambiguous issues in a high tempo setting in collaboration with diverse stakeholders in order to achieve strategic outcomes.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
Significant level of experience leading people and programs in a complex time bound environment.
Experience working across international and domestic government organisational boundaries to shape priorities and deliver outcomes.
Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills.
Strong understanding of policy ideally in the international and/or security environment transformation.
The ability to provide clear advice and exercise sound judgement in complex and evolving environments.
A strong focus on delivery and achieving enterprise outcomes.
Experience with cross-organisational collaboration, multi-stakeholder environments, international engagement, or complex capability/program management would be highly regarded.
Application Closing Date: Thursday 30 July ****
For further information please review the job information pack, reference
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📌 Director International Security Policy (Canberra)
🏢 Australian Department Of Defence
📍 Canberra