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Workforce Planner

Role and expectations of the successful candidate:

The Attorney-General’s Department is growing its workforce planning team to support the launch of our new workforce strategy. In this role, you will work closely with colleagues in HR, our Data and Behavioural Insights branch and stakeholders across the department to deliver a range of projects following the finalisation of our Workforce Strategy. You will contribute to the design and delivery of efficient and effective management practices to support strategic and operational workforce planning. You will engage with the business on the delivery of projects identified in our strategy to grow the department’s workforce planning culture.

Preferred candidates will have experience in workforce planning and analytics or related fields with transferrable skills.

We seek people who bring external ideas, diverse experience, and global perspectives, and are willing to explore innovative ways of working. People who work for us will display leadership at all levels, apply information effectively in order to solve problems, and work collaboratively to achieve outcomes.

Workforce Planners analyse current workforce external and internal environments to forecast future workforce needs, ensuring the department can achieve its strategic priorities. They achieve this by identifying, analysing and monitoring current and future business priorities and workforce needs, develop strategies, policies and guidelines to implement changes required to meet evolving workforce priorities. Workforce Planners need to be solutions focused to develop short-medium term operational workforce plans.

We are seeking candidates who can work in a growing team under limited direction to support operation and strategic workforce planning, data analysis and research tasks. We seek people who deliver quality and timely work outcomes, and have good teamwork and stakeholder management skills.

Specific requirements of the role include:

• partnering with business areas to develop and implement operational workforce plans
• leading or supporting project work to implement workforce strategies
• engaging with business areas by providing expert advice and analysis of their workforce, including responding to and managing changes to work programs
• providing business intelligence to confirm HR data and use HR metrics to inform and measure workforce actions
• developing practical strategies to support business areas with staffing requirements.

We are seeking candidates who:

• possess well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to engage with and develop collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders
• possess strong integrity, resilience and problem-solving skills
• can demonstrate initiative, sound judgement and strong organisation skills
• can draw from their expertise to solve problems, identify improvements and offer credible, consistent advice.

Please refer to the AGD Performance Expectations for more detail.

The range and nature of work within the Attorney-General’s Department requires a workforce that reflects our diverse society and the department provides a number of support mechanisms for employees.

As an AGD employee, you will:

• be part of an inclusive and diverse work environment
• receive a generous starting salary and work conditions
• benefit from supportive learning and development
• be supported by a range of active networks including the Indigenous Employee Network, the Celebrating Ability Network, the Women’s Network, the Pride Network and the Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Network.

To see further information regarding our support for our employees, please see our Workplace Diversity Page.

Applications close: 11:30PM AEST, Thursday 18 August 2022