Agency Purpose
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is an independent statutory authority established by the Australian Government to maintain an impartial and independent electoral system for eligible voters through active electoral roll management, efficient delivery of polling services, and targeted education and public awareness programs.
The AEC’s values and commitments
The AEC values and commitments are an essential component of our operating environment and frame how AEC staff work. The AEC's focus is on electoral integrity through the values of quality, agility and professionalism.
About the Team
The Resilience team sits within the Cyber Security and Assurance section and supports the agency's commitment to strengthening the resilience of the AEC’s election management systems and processes.
The team will work across the AEC and with external stakeholders to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen preparedness and uplift the AEC’s electoral event resilience posture against cyber breaches, outages to critical systems and infrastructure, natural disasters and other disruptive events.
The Opportunity
The Business Analyst supports the AEC’s work to strengthen the resilience of election management systems and critical electoral event processes.
The role provides business analysis and resilience expertise to stakeholders across the AEC and contributes to the design, development and implementation of resilience and business continuity activities.
Working with reasonable autonomy, the role undertakes complex analysis, develops evidence-based recommendations and supports decision-making in a dynamic operational environment.
You will be required to:
- Conduct business continuity and resilience analysis for election management systems and critical electoral event processes.
- Review and enhance business continuity documentation, including business impact analyses, process dependency mapping, continuity strategies, exercise findings and improvement plans.
- Facilitate workshops and consultation activities to identify vulnerabilities, resilience requirements and improvement opportunities.
- Analyse operational, cyber security, technology, infrastructure and environmental risks that may affect electoral event delivery.
- Support preparedness, exercises, assurance activities and lessons management activities across the AEC.
- Prepare high-quality advice, reports, briefs and governance documentation.
- Build productive relationships across the AEC and with relevant government stakeholders to support integrated resilience outcomes.
- Promote APS Values, AEC Values and Commitments, political neutrality, sound governance and safe working practices.
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.
- Proven ability to undertake complex analysis, draw evidence-based conclusions, identify risks and opportunities and provide practical advice in a complex operational environment.
- Experience planning, coordinating and delivering work activities that achieve practical outcomes in a complex environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear advice, reports and briefing material and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to understand organisational objectives and apply them to business continuity and resilience activities.
- Demonstrated ability to build productive relationships, work collaboratively across business areas and influence stakeholders to achieve practical outcomes.
- Personal drive, integrity and sound judgement, including the ability to work with limited direction and manage competing priorities within legislative, policy and budget parameters.
Desirable
- Knowledge of, or ability to quickly gain knowledge of, Australian electoral law and practice.
- Knowledge of, or ability to quickly gain knowledge of, Australian Government security, risk and protective security frameworks.
- Experience with process modelling, requirements gathering, workshop facilitation, impact assessment, business impact analysis or resilience assurance activities.
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.
