Classification: Senior Officer Grade B
Salary: $149,172 - $167,151 plus superannuation
Position No: 48473
Directorate: City and Environment
Advertised (Gazettal date): 09 June 2026
Contact Officer: Robert Alford on [email protected] or (02) 6205 4261
Details: About the role:
Enjoy working with a passionate and dynamic team? Access Canberra is an innovative workplace where your work directly improves life in the ACT. As a director, you’ll lead with independence and influence key regulatory and service delivery outcomes within Building, Planning and Land Use Regulation.
We are seeking an experienced regulatory leader who can lead the Rapid Regulatory Response Team, Compliance Monitoring and Inspections Team and the Public Land Use Compliance Team, to deliver regulatory outcomes that support a safe and liveable city.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
-
Provide leadership, management and oversight of complex cases and projects to support staff and operationalise the Construction Occupation Registrar’s vision and purpose.
-
Provide leadership and management of teams engaged in high level and complex compliance and regulatory actions.
-
Provide strategic, evidence based and procedural advice and direction on directorate, government, and regulatory issues.
-
Prepare strategic and complex submissions, reports, briefs, and correspondence on a diverse range of matters.
-
Lead the team to develop and utilise skills in reading, interpreting, interrogating, and applying legislation, professional judgement, statutory powers, and the risk/harm regulation model to deliver proactive and reactive regulation.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.
Eligibility/Other requirements:
-
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
-
Certificate IV in Government Investigations or experience in a regulatory / investigations role is desirable.
Notes: This is a temporary position available immediately to 26 June 2026, with the possibility of extension up to 6 weeks. This position is available to ACT Government officers and employees only.
An order of merit will be established from this selection process and may be used to fill future identical vacancies over the next 12 months. A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. Selection may be based on application and referee reports only. This position will be moving to a new workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk. Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times.
How to Apply: To apply please submit the names of two referees, your current curriculum vitae with a one-page pitch to [email protected] that you have the Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours to successfully perform this role against the duties and responsibilities listed in the Position Description attached.
If you would like further information please contact Bob Alford, Senior Director via Ms Teams or 02 6205 4261
Applications should be submitted .
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable exceptions outlined in the Fair Work Act.
City and Environment
City and Environment Directorate was established on the 1 July 2025. This new directorate is an amalgamation of positions previously advertised under Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate and Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate.
#LI-DNI
This is a temporary position available immediately to 26 June 2026, with the possibility of extension up to 6 weeks. This position is available to ACT Government officers and employees only.
