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State Emergency Services, Senior Governance Officer

Queensland Police Service
Brisbane Full-day Full-time

Description:

SES Strategic Liaison and Assurance Unit supports the delivery of SES organisational priorities and objectives through the initiation and management of strategic engagement and corporate governance and assurance. The unit is also responsible for the development, maintenance and monitoring of corporate services ensuring SES state and regional capabilities are developed and maintained.

You will be responsible for providing governance and secretariat functions across several governance committees and in support of strategic meetings. You will be required to work with limited direction on sensitive and/or complex tasks, undertaking research and audits that contribute to the reviews, development and implementation of corporate governance requirements for SES.

Your Key Accountabilities

The core capability requirements for this role are:

  • Assist in the review and development of corporate governance systems and frameworks that support the delivery of services and comply with legislative policy and regulatory requirements.
  • Provide timely advice and guidance to senior managers and executive support teams in relation to performance, planning, governance and secretariat support issues.
  • Examine and conduct quality assurance of reports and submissions to ensure accurate information is provided to support the delivery of governance committee requirements.
  • Provide secretariat support across departmental corporate governance committees, including to review and collate meeting papers, recording of meeting and circulation of minutes, and follow up on actions and outcomes, involving sensitive and/or complex tasks.
  • Develop and maintain effective communication channels and working relationships with internal and external clients and stakeholders on governance and secretariat activities.
  • Develop and implement governance processes and ensure effective corporate governance procedures apply, including records management in accordance with departmental policies.
  • Manage business improvements initiatives to ensure systems, procedures and processes meet best practice expectations as outlined in internal audits and compliance activities.
  • Coordinate and undertake project activities on a range of initiatives and opportunities, including identifying issues impacting the unit, and initiate work


priorities and timely action to support business requirements.

Role Requirements

Technical/ Operational/ Educational experience

  • Knowledge of and experience with Government governance and reporting systems and processes.


Other

  • It is expected the incumbent will participate in an out-of-hours on-call roster during emergency operations. This may require work outside of normal hours (e.g. night shift), including weekends, working extended hours and may include travel to rural and remote communities, intrastate or interstate travel as necessary and/or deployment activities to other parts of the state.


Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Occupational group Administration
17 Jul 2025;   from: linkedin.com

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