📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0769782
- Agency: Australian Centre for Disease Control
- Job Title: Assistant Director – ICT Operations
- Position Number: 26CDC-OIB-10071
- Classification: Executive Level 1
- Closing Date: Sunday 31 May 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time, Ongoing;Non-Ongoing
- Location: Woden ACT, Surry Hills NSW, Melbourne VIC,
- Future Merit Locations: Various locations – ACT, Various locations – NSW,
- Salary: $124,951 – $142,509
- Office Arrangement: Hybrid (Hybrid working arrangements can be negotiated)
About Australian Centre for Disease Control
The independent Australian Centre for Disease Control (Australian CDC) is at the frontline of improving Australia’s ability to prepare
for, and respond to, public health challenges, including pandemics. The Australian CDC is an independent technical advisory
agency on public health matters and a leader in disease control, preparedness, response, and prevention. The Australian CDC
collaborates with national and international health bodies to strengthen Australia’s public health infrastructure.
Duties
- To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate:
- Demonstrate expertise and knowledge; and exercise sound judgement in an environment of
- complex and competing priorities with professionalism and integrity; a strong work ethic;
- flexible can-do attitude; outcomes-focused and deadline driven.
- Possess significant experience at a senior level, leading a team performing an ICT function.
- Take personal responsibility for accurate completion of work, showing initiative to seek
- guidance and escalate issues as required, ensuring outcomes are achieved.
- Demonstrate a willingness to learn, together with a commitment to producing quality
- outcomes having a keen attention to detail.
- Develop and maintain effective key relationships with internal and external stakeholders to
- achieve ICT outcomes aligned with agency requirements.
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to liaise and
- negotiate effectively and positively with a broad range of stakeholders.
- A comprehensive understanding and strong commitment to customer service principles and
- practices relevant to ICT service provision in government settings.
Eligibility / Notes
- To be eligible for employment with the Australian CDC, applicants must be an Australian citizen at
- the time an offer of employment is made.
- An applicant’s suitability for employment with the CDC will also be assessed through a variety of
- pre-employment check processes, such as:
- Satisfactory completion of a criminal history check, and where relevant, a Working with
- Children and Vulnerable People Check,
- Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where required),
- Providing evidence of qualifications (where required), and
- Obtaining and maintaining a security clearance at the required level.
- For this role, a ITIL Foundation v4 Certification and the ability to obtain and maintain Negative
- Vetting 1 security clearance is required.
How to Apply
Position Contact Jesse, n/a
Agency Recruitment Site https://www.cdc.gov.au/about-us/work-us
Applicants to vacancies notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette should be aware:
that the names of successful applicants will also be notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette
applicants found suitable may be offered similar employment opportunities by other Australian Public Service agencies
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