Senior Director

Description:

As a senior executive leader in Queensland Government, the Senior Director will display outstanding judgment, high-level integrity and resilience, strong agility to adapt to a constantly changing environment, a strong achievement orientation and excellent communication and negotiation skills.

You will provide high-level strategic and support to the Director-General, the department’s Board of Management and senior executives across a wide variety of matters to meet strategic objectives, including but not limited to organisational design, systems and policy development, change management, leadership and employee capability, cultural capability and diversity.

Please refer to role profile for full details.

Stakeholder and outcome

• Provide high level strategic and operational support to the Director-General and Minister on key issues relating to functions of the department.
• Identify emerging corporate and strategic issues that relate to the department's portfolio areas.
• Provide leadership and direction to senior departmental officers in responding to complex and often time sensitive issues, including awareness of contentious and topical matters.
• Work with Ministerial Office staff and the department's Executives to foster high levels of collaboration, information sharing and effective management of contentious issues.
• Prepare and provide integrated information to provide the Director-General with a consolidated briefing, recommendations and advice, and maintain up-to-date knowledge of issues across the portfolio.
  
  
  

Internal business

• Lead the Office of the Director-General to ensure the organisational priorities of the Director-General, Minister and Executives are met and progressed.
• Lead units within the Office of the Director-General, including Executive Services and Cabinet and Parliamentary Services, along with leading high-level projects and initiatives.
• Ensure effective management of human, financial and physical resources, ensuring a culture of client service, continuous improvement and innovation, and ensuring performance outcomes are achieved to a high standard.
• Ensure that strategies, structures and systems are developed and implemented to facilitate effective policy, program and service delivery aligned with departmental strategic objectives.
• Provide strategic oversight of the future development of the Office of the Director-General's (ODG) workforce with a focus on organisation capability, workforce planning and management. Manage, lead and support the staff within the ODG by promoting and maintaining a culture of client service and performance management.
• Identify and facilitate the development of innovative and proactive strategies for the development of directorate business and administrative systems to assist the directorate effectively deliver services to clients.
  
  
  

Financial

• Ensure effective management and monitoring of the ODG's budget, including the department's substantial investment and commissioning funding, as well as staff establishment in accordance with statutory responsibilities, government priorities and departmental policies and procedures.
  
  
  

Learning and growth

• Lead with integrity, promote inclusion, and support cultural capability, particularly in working respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Foster a positive, high-performing workplace that prioritises staff wellbeing, diversity, and continuous improvement.
• Provide strategic leadership to achieve departmental goals and deliver sustainable, responsive services.
  
  
  

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Occupational group HR & Industrial Relations