Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary – Attorney-General’s Department
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770630
- Agency: Attorney-General’s Department
- Job Title: Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary
- Position Number: 0182/26_AGD-EXT
- Classification: APS Level 6
- Closing Date: Sunday 26 July 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time, Ongoing
- Location: Canberra ACT
- Future Merit Locations: Canberra
- Salary: $101,672 – $113,413
- Office Arrangement: Flexible (On site)
About Attorney-General’s Department
The Attorney-General’s Department delivers programs and policies to maintain and improve Australia’s law and justice framework,
and to facilitate jobs growth through policies that promote fair, productive, flexible and safe workplaces. Through the Australian
Government Solicitor, we also provide legal services to the Commonwealth, including legal advice and representation. Our
department is the central policy and coordinating element of the Attorney-General’s portfolio. Our department is structured into four
groups: • Australian Government Solicitor • Justice and Communities • Integrity and Security • Enabling Services The department
operates in a diverse and complex environment to address challenging issues. We have a highly-skilled and engaged workforce
involved in policy development and implementation and program administration. The department also has a large number of
practicing lawyers, mainly within the Australian Government Solicitor Group within the department.
Duties
- As an experienced EA, this position will ask you to:
- Manage the Deputy Secretary’s diary with autonomy and limited direction, exercising initiative, judgement
- and forward planning
- Oversee incoming and outgoing correspondence for the office, anticipating, responding to and resolving
- complex requests and directing requests to other work areas as appropriate, which will require a degree
- of understanding of the operational environment
- Engage with a range of internal and external stakeholders to follow up requests for briefing or other
- information
- Draft basic written correspondence on behalf of the Deputy Secretary, in collaboration with the Executive
- Adviser and other areas of the department as required
- Coordinate and collate information and documents to support the Deputy Secretary’s attendance at
- meetings and Senate Estimates, ensuring quality and relevance
- Organise meetings, travel, events and other duties as required
- Contribute to planning activities, facilitate business improvements and efficient office processes
- Support and provide guidance to the team of Executive Assistants within ISG.
Eligibility / Notes
- To be eligible for employment at the Attorney-General’s Department applicants must be Australian citizens.
- Applicants offered employment will be required to successfully undergo a police record check and be able to
- obtain and maintain a security clearance at a specified clearance level. The successful applicant must be willing
- to disclose all relevant and required information.
- Successful applicants engaged into the APS will be subject to a probation period.
How to Apply
Position Contact Briah McKinnon-Collins, (02) 6141 2915
Agency Recruitment Site https://agcareers.nga.net.au/?jati=0C726ADB-3BA5-64BB-6E0E-ED0A74B73DCE
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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