Assistant Director – Media – Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770505
- Agency: Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
- Job Title: Assistant Director – Media
- Position Number: TBA
- Classification: Executive Level 1
- Closing Date: Sunday 12 July 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time;Part-Time, Ongoing;Non-Ongoing
- Location: Canberra ACT
- Future Merit Locations: Various locations – ACT, Various locations – NSW,
- Salary: $128,624 – $155,764
- Office Arrangement: Flexible (Working from home arrangements are available)
About Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority’s (IPEA) roles and functions reflect those prescribed in the Independent
Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017 and include: • providing advice to parliamentarians and their staff on travel expenses,
allowances, and related expenses • administering travel expenses, allowances, and related expenses, including processing these
claims • reporting on work expense claims • auditing work expense claims
Duties
- Lead the end to end management of media enquiries, ensuring responses are timely,
- accurate, consistent and aligned with IPEA’s statutory role, independence and approved
- media protocols.
- Act as a central point of contact for journalists, managing professional relationships while
- setting and maintaining clear engagement boundaries and ensuring fairness and consistency
- across media outlets.
- Provide strategic, high quality advice to the CEO and senior executives on media risk,
- emerging issues and reputational considerations.
- Coordinate the drafting, clearance and delivery of media responses, statements, talking
- points, Q&As and media releases, including managing CEO and executive approval
- processes.
- Manage high risk, sensitive or high profile media matters, exercising sound judgement in
- balancing transparency, confidentiality and public accountability obligations.
- Oversee media monitoring and analysis, providing clear insights and intelligence to support
- executive decision making and proactive media engagement.
- Support proactive and strategic media engagement where appropriate, including the
- development of background briefings and approved media information packs.
- Build effective internal relationships with subject matter experts to support coordinated,
- accurate and timely media responses.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of media guidance and procedures, and support
- media capability uplift across the organisation.
- The APS Work Level Standards provide five key characteristics about the broad job requirements
- and operating context for each classification level. IPEA are seeking candidates who possess the
- following job specific skills:
- Leadership and accountability
- Management diversity and span
- Stakeholder management
- Job context and environment
- Independence and decision-making
- For further information regarding these key characteristics review the candidate information pack
- on the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority . website
Eligibility / Notes
- This is a designated security assessed position. The successful applicant will be required to have
- or obtain and maintain a security assessment at the Baseline level.
How to Apply
Position Contact Lyndall Marshall, (02) 6215 2937
Agency Recruitment Site https://www.ipea.gov.au/about-ipea/employment
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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