The Event Workforce Section sits within the Event Enabling Branch and is responsible for the strategic planning, recruitment, establishment, support, training coordination, and remuneration systems that enable the AEC's event workforce.

The section provides national leadership for the attraction, recruitment, and management of the AEC's permanent election surge workforce and Temporary Election Workforce (TEW), supporting the delivery of federal elections, referendums, and by-elections across Australia.

The section is responsible for overseeing workforce planning, labour hire arrangements, TEW systems, operational recruitment delivery, employment frameworks, training support arrangements, and workforce reporting. During a federal election, these arrangements support the engagement, training, and payment of approximately 100,000 temporary election workers nationwide.

The key duties of the position include:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the AEC and contribute to work that has a direct impact on Australia's democratic processes.

As Director, Event Workforce, you will provide strategic leadership and operational management of the AEC’s workforce function, ensuring the agency can recruit, establish and support a suitably skilled temporary workforce to deliver electoral events.

The role leads nationally significant workforce programs and services, overseeing the development of policies, procedures, systems, contracts and operational frameworks that support election readiness and successful event delivery. The Director is responsible for ensuring nationally consistent workforce management practices and service delivery across a geographically dispersed network.

The Director works collaboratively with senior executives, State Managers, operational leaders,



People Branch and external providers to deliver workforce outcomes that are scalable, compliant, efficient and capable of supporting the AEC's evolving operational requirements.

To excel you’ll have:

We are seeking a motivated and capable professional who can demonstrate the skills, knowledge and experience required to perform successfully in this role.

- Demonstrated ability to provide strategic leadership in complex operational environments, including setting direction, leading teams, building organisational capability, fostering a positive workplace culture and delivering outcomes through others.
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale workforce mobilisation, recruitment, service delivery or operational programs, including establishing frameworks, systems and processes to support consistent national delivery.
- Highly developed communication, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including experience building productive relationships, negotiating outcomes and working collaboratively across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Demonstrated experience managing budgets, contracts, procurement activities and service provider relationships, together with the ability to evaluate risks, drive continuous improvement and deliver compliant, efficient business outcomes.

Desirable

- Knowledge of Commonwealth employment frameworks and workforce legislation.

Eligibility

- AEC employees must be Australian citizens.
- Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs,



and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.
- Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.
- Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the security clearance required for this role.

Getting to know the Australian Electoral Commission

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is at the heart of Australian democracy. The AEC is responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums, maintaining the Commonwealth electoral roll and making sure the Australian public is informed about all electoral matters. Our goal is to see that all eligible Australians actively participate in our democracy. The AEC values of electoral integrity through quality, agility and professionalism drive strategic and corporate planning and assist in organising the agency in a way that will effectively deliver the business into the future. The AEC is an equal prospect employer which upholds the APS employment principles and actively encourages a diverse and inclusive workplace. The AEC’s statutory functions in relation to the conduct of elections and referendums require that the AEC and its employees must be, and must be seen to be, impartial and politically neutral. As a result, the AEC Enterprise Agreement and Political Neutrality Policy state that it is an inherent requirement of AEC employment that employees, and prospective employees, are not publicly active in any political affairs and do not publicly engage in such activities. This includes advocating any issues associated with a referendum. Should a prospective employee fail to meet this inherent requirement, they will be ineligible for employment with the AEC.

📌 Director, Event Workforce (Canberra)
🏢 Australian Electoral Commission
📍 Canberra