We are seeking Recruitment Team Leaders and Recruitment Officers to join our ATO

Recruitment Operations and Onboarding teams.

The ATO Recruitment team plays a key role in building the organisation’s future workforce by attracting high quality external talent and supporting internal mobility. We partner closely with business areas to deliver fair, transparent, and contemporary recruitment services across the full recruitment lifecycle.

Through collaboration, innovation, and strong stewardship of recruitment systems and tools we provide specialist advice and deliver timely outcomes that support the ATO’s strategic workforce objectives.

As a Recruitment Operations Team Leader, you provide clear leadership and direction to a team of

Recruitment Officers responsible for delivering end to end recruitment services in line with legislative requirements and organisational policy. Your primary focus is on leading people and building individual and team capability, setting priorities, and exercising sound judgment to ensure recruitment outcomes align with business needs and procedural requirements. You’ll ensure recruitment activities are compliant, defensible and aligned with merit based selection principles while providing expert recruitment advice and delivering timely, compliant and client focused outcomes.

You’ll proactively manage competing priorities, identify risks and opportunities, drive continuous improvement initiatives and foster a team-oriented, inclusive and high performing team culture.

As a Recruitment Officer, you will partner with business areas to provide guidance on recruitment legislation, policies and procedures, and best practice design, as well as deliver end to end recruitment activities,



ensuring services are delivered in accordance with governance requirements. As a leader within the team, you’ll assess recruitment documentation for compliance, identify and escalate risks,

support quality assurance and continuous improvement initiatives, and mentor less experienced members of the team to build their capability.

Success in this role requires demonstrated experience interpreting and applying recruitment policy and legislative requirements, managing relationships, sound judgement and decision making and delivering outcomes against a backdrop of competing priorities.

We embrace the strength of diversity – through our people and the perspectives they bring.

We are committed to inclusive recruitment practices and encourage applications from people with disability or neurodivergence, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and individuals from all backgrounds. Reasonable adjustments can be provided throughout the recruitment process.

Our ideal candidate

- uses recruitment legislation, policy and procedures to provide evidence based advice and to deliver compliant and defensible recruitment outcomes
- has a proven ability to lead, mentor and develop individual and team capability
- uses sound judgement to identify emerging issues and risks and implement practical mitigation strategies or solutions
- manages own and team resources effectively by planning and allocating workloads, setting clear priorities and expectations and coordinating recruitment activities to ensure work is delivered within agreed timeframes
- contributes to business improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to streamline recruitment processes, improve service delivery, and reduce risk
- has well developed stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and tailor communication to different audiences.

📌 Recruitment Team Leader (Australia)
🏢 Australian Taxation Office
📍 Australia