EL1 Employment Suitability & Workforce Integrity Advisor

Are you an integrity-focused professional with deep experience in vetting, suitability assessment or personnel security? We're seeking an EL1 Specialist Advisor, Employment Suitability & Workforce Integrity to lead the development and uplift of the Agency's suitability, integrity and workforce risk frameworks across the entire employee lifecycle.

This is a key leadership role shaping how we protect the organisation, its people and the community we serve.

What You'll Do

1. Personnel Security & Suitability Framework Development

• Lead the design, consultation and rollout of a contemporary employment suitability framework spanning recruitment, onboarding, mobility and offboarding.
• Ensure strong alignment with the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), APS integrity principles, and internal personnel security requirements.
• Provide expert analysis and advice to shape risk‑based workforce controls and organisational decision‑making.

2. Suitability Assessment & Expert Advisory

• Apply structured vetting and suitability methodologies to complex workforce cases.
• Offer authoritative advice on risk indicators, suitability concerns and appropriate mitigations.
• Support defensible decision-making through clear documentation, rigorous analysis and sound professional judgement.

3. Pre‑Employment Screening

• Enhance and mature pre‑employment screening settings, ensuring proportionality to the role's risk profile.
• Support seamless integration of screening requirements into recruitment workflows and systems.
• Review applicant information to identify suitability indicators and provide clear recommendations.

4. Ongoing Suitability & Workforce Monitoring

• Develop practical, risk‑informed approaches to ongoing suitability.
• Establish review triggers and apply structured, evidence‑based assessment methods when concerns arise.
• Help the organisation proactively manage workforce integrity risks.

5. Workforce Role Risk & Governance

• Assist in assessing positions for elevated integrity or access requirements, including screening obligations.
• Partner with People, Culture & Wellbeing teams to maintain tools linking roles to suitability expectations.
• Provide guidance on suitability considerations during job design, recruitment and workforce planning.

6. Policy, Documentation & Continuous Improvement

• Refresh and maintain policies, procedures and guidance covering suitability and workforce integrity across the employment lifecycle.
• Strengthen integration between personnel security, integrity, fraud, audit and governance functions.
• Drive continuous improvement through insights, evidence and best‑practice approaches.

7. Stakeholder Engagement & Representation

• Build strong partnerships with Cyber Security, Fraud, Legal, Audit, Risk and operational teams.
• Confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels on sensitive and complex matters.
• Prepare high‑quality papers, advice and executive briefings.

8. Leadership & Program Delivery

• Lead complex workstreams, managing priorities, risks, timelines and interdependencies.
• Mentor staff in personnel security and integrity areas to support capability uplift and knowledge transfer.
• Promote cultural uplift in integrity awareness, ethical behaviour and suitability expectations across the workforce.

What You'll Bring

We're looking for candidates with:

• Experience applying PSPF personnel security and integrity requirements to recruitment, onboarding, suitability assessments, ongoing monitoring and workforce separation.
• Significant experience in vetting, suitability assessment, personnel security, integrity or similar regulatory functions.
• Strong capability in interpreting sensitive or complex personal information against structured criteria and standards.
• Proven experience developing or applying assessment frameworks, risk criteria or evidence‑based methodologies.
• Highly developed written communication skills, including suitability assessments, decision records and executive briefs.
• Demonstrated professionalism, discretion and sound judgement when handling sensitive information.
• Experience leading reforms, governance processes or capability uplift activities.

Why Join Us?

This role offers the chance to influence workforce integrity at scale, shape national policy settings, and contribute to a strong and ethical organisational culture. You'll work with high‑performing teams across the agency to build a trusted, secure and resilient workforce.