- Executive Level 1
- Canberra ACT, Melbourne VIC, Sydney NSW, Brisbane QLD
- $129,477 - $143,099

About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’– where our people reflect our purpose.

The Role
The Assistant Director - Business Analyst is responsible for ensuring an accurate understanding of the current state and desired future state for large Digital Projects. This includes writing functional requirements and acceptance criteria for features prioritised from product backlogs and ensuring consistency and quality of work for other Business Analysts.

You will work closely with Product Owners, Business Users, Service Designers, Solution Architects, Scrum Masters, Developers and Testers, as well as communications and change management staff.

You will utilise IT project management methodologies (Agile Methodology), and act as a professional representative for projects or programs in internal and external forums. You may oversee or undertake reporting,



research and analysis activities.

Using your well-developed relationship management skills, you will contribute across your networks to seek solutions to complex problems. You will operate in a changing workplace and responsively under pressure.

Duties and Responsibilities
Responsibilities of the Assistant Director - Business Analyst may include:

- Plan, facilitate and lead workshops with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, application owners and technical teams.
- Participate in agile ceremonies.
- Participate in design, planning, and estimation sessions.
- Work closely with system users to map business processes for the purpose of understanding business domain problems.
- Analyse and communicate solution options.
- Write functional requirements along with acceptance criteria.
- Work with pre-delivery teams to identify viable solutions.
- Provide sufficient business details to delivery teams to deliver viable solutions.
- Work closely with the product and technical teams to ensure clarity of communication and understanding.
- Use industry and departmental standards to develop artefacts for decision making requirements, business rules, data requirements, system functional and non-functional requirements and user stories.
- Lead the work of less experienced staff and provide coaching and mentoring as needed.
- Set standards and ensure the quality of work produced by junior Business Analysts.
- Provide advice on matters relating to Business Analysis.




- Participate in administrative processes as needed, including recruitment activities.

How to Apply
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than 750 words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

Eligibility Don’t meet all the role requirements?
At DEWR we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and seek to recruit staff with a wide range of backgrounds, skill levels, disciplines and working styles. If this role resonates with you and you are excited about making an impact, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Citizenship - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

Security Clearance - our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.

Please refer to the Job Information Pack for more information about the role.

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📌 Assistant Director - Business Analyst (Bondi)
🏢 Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
📍 Bondi