EL1, Assistant Director, Partnerships & Evaluation

About the Role:

The Regulatory Operations Group operationalises AFSA’s strategy, delivering integrated end to end regulatory services that supports clients through AFSA systems and ensures compliance in line with AFSA’s approach to regulation to people centric, outcomes focused, harms based, intelligence led, and strengths based. 

The Education and Outreach (E&O) function within the Regulatory Operation Group educates and engages across sectors and programmes to target interventions to improve compliance. The section leads and manages targeted education and outreach activities with priority audience groups.

The Assistant Director Partnerships & Evaluation will lead a team to achieve E&O strategic objectives. They will support implementation of the E&O strategy by identifying, facilitating, and fostering partnerships to reach priority audiences. Further, they will engage in regular and systematic reviews of E&O outputs to ensure an environment of continuous improvement. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Identify, assess, and cultivate strategic partnerships with organisations, institutions and community groups that can help E&O reach its priority audiences.
• Develop and maintain strong, mutually beneficial relationships with partners to enhance the impact and reach of education initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with teams within the E&O section to evaluate education programs and outreach activities, using data-driven methods to assess their effectiveness and impact.
• Support the development of evaluation frameworks and tools to systematically baseline and measure program outcomes against established goals and KPIs. 

Key qualifications, accreditations and experience

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills in an education or communications context. 
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to pro-actively meet deadlines. 
• Demonstrated experience leading a team in an education and outreach environment.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing and evaluating educational campaigns.
• Demonstrated experience building and leveraging long-term professional partnerships.

Please note there is an operational requirement to be in the office at least 2 days per week for this role, and some travel will be a requirement.

All duties will be performed in accordance with: 

• the APS Values, Code of Conduct and Employment Principles
• WHS obligations, taking responsibility for own health and safety and that of others
• AFSA’s risk management framework and relevant legislation, including guiding others to identify and mitigate foreseeable risks. 

Why AFSA?:

You will enjoy excellent conditions including:

• Generous superannuation (15.4%)
• A modern work environment
• Access to Employee Assistance Provider
• Flexibility to balance work and personal life (including working from home arrangements and flexible start and finish times where applicable).

We are a workplace committed to providing an environment that values diversity and supports staff to reach their full potential. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disability. At AFSA we encourage every employee balance their family commitments and personal interests with flexible working options.

Eligibility:

Please note that this opportunity is open only to Australian Citizens. The successful applicant must have or be willing to undergo a security clearance to the level of Baseline as a condition of employment. To satisfy character requirements all AFSA employees must undergo a police records check.

Where a person has received a redundancy benefit from APS agency employment and their corresponding redundancy benefit period has not expired, they may be ineligible for employment. We encourage applications from peoples from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disability.

How to Apply:

Applications close at 11:59 PM AEST on Thursday 24 July 2025.

To apply for this role, please click the ‘Apply’ button. You’ll be relocated to our application portal which also provides step-by-step instructions to guide you through the application process.