Job Description

EL1 Specialist Advisor, Employment Suitability and Workforce Integrity

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Are you an experienced personnel security and integrity expert looking to play a critical, high-impact role in shaping workforce suitability frameworks? Step into a key advisory position where your expertise in risk-based controls, personnel vetting, and integrity policy will directly protect and strengthen organisational governance.

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The Details:

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- Start: ASAP
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- Contract: Until 31 December 2026, with potential for extension
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- Locations: Regional NSW - Newcastle, Charlestown, Grafton, Lismore, Coffs
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- Pay Rate: $602.55 Daily + super
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Key Responsibilities:

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- Framework Development: Lead the design, consultation, and implementation of a contemporary employee suitability framework covering the entire employment lifecycle, ensuring alignment with protective security and personnel security policies.
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- Suitability Assessment & Expert Advisory: Apply vetting and suitability assessment principles to complex workforce cases; provide authoritative advice on potential risks, suitability concerns, and appropriate mitigations.
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- Pre-Employment Screening: Strengthen pre-employment screening settings by ensuring proportional checks are aligned to role risk, and integrate screening into recruitment workflows.
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- Ongoing Monitoring & Risk Management: Develop practical, risk-informed approaches to ongoing suitability, establish triggers for review, and support the management of integrity-related workforce risks.
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- Governance & Workstream Leadership: Assist in identifying positions with elevated integrity or access requirements, lead complex workstreams, mentor staff,



and build strong team-oriented relationships across Cyber, Legal, Fraud, and Risk teams.
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- Policy & Briefings: Refresh and maintain relevant policies and procedures while preparing high-quality papers, decision records, and executive briefings.
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Skills & Experience Required:

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- Demonstrated experience with the Personnel Security Lifecycle.
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- Experience applying PSPF requirements to workforce lifecycle processes (recruitment, onboarding, suitability assessments, ongoing monitoring, cessation).
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- Significant experience in vetting, suitability assessment, personnel security, or equivalent integrity-based roles.
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- Demonstrated ability to interpret complex personal information and determine suitability against defined standards.
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- Proven experience developing or applying structured frameworks, risk criteria, or assessment methodologies.
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- Strong written analysis skills, including preparing suitability assessments, decision records, or briefs.
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- Demonstrated ability to work with sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.
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- Qualification of Certificate IV in Government Security (Personnel Vetting).
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- Highly developed judgement and decision-making skills, balancing risk, procedural fairness, and operational requirements.
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Please Note:

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Applications close 10 AM Monday 10th August 2026. Any application received after this date will be considered as an Expression of Interest in case other similar opportunities become available.

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At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.

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📌 Specialist Advisor (New South Wales)
🏢 Randstad
📍 New South Wales