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Join us on the Centralised Processing (CP) program within the Department of Defence and elevate your career. This opportunity is to to lead our team of Incident Managers in a very fast paced environment where we work through and overcome unique challenges in order to excel at delivering client outcomes. We are seeking a dedicated, passionate and resilient individual, who take pride in their work and strive to make a difference. In return, we will recognise your talents and abilities and assist you to be your best, both personally and professionally. Working alongside a team of people, routinely interacting with all levels of management and engaging with technical SMEs across a broad range of disciplines, you’ll have all the resources at your fingertips to reach your full potential.

Key activities include

• Lead a small team of Incident Managers
• Chair Conference calls with relevant technical resources and other key stakeholders to orchestrate resolution of the incident.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring they receive appropriate communication
• Keep track of progress against incident SLA's
• Ensuring all Incident cases and records are accurately maintained and are of quality in content
• Continuous improvement of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) to assist in day to day running of the incident process
• Complete Post Incident Reports

• Full-time ongoing position + Hybrid working conditions
• EACH’s Head Office is located in Ringwood (Melbourne), however we are also willing to consider candidates located in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Tasmania (please see the offices we have available for you to be based from in the ad content below) + interstate travel required.
• $105,000 - $115,000 pa + Super + Not-for-Profit Salary Packaging up to $18,550 

Job Description 
We are seeking a Business Development Specialist to join our team and work closely with the Director of Business Development, Operations, and Organisational Enablement to identify growth opportunities and develop business partnerships across various sectors. This role will also contribute to the development of high-impact solutions aligned with EACH’s 2024-2028 Strategy, maximising long-term profitability.

If you are a strategic thinker with experience in business development, tender management, and cross-functional collaboration, we encourage you to apply!

Key responsibilities include:

• Researching and analysing emerging opportunities to inform strategy and drive growth.
• Collaborating with the Strategy, Growth, and Transformation (SGT) directorates to develop profit-for-purpose business opportunities.
• Managing and coordinating tender and grant activities, ensuring timely and high-quality submissions.
• Supporting mergers and acquisitions processes, including planning, due diligence, and coordination.
• Contributing to regular communications and reporting, including monthly KPIs and quarterly board updates.

As mentioned above we are willing to consider candidates located within proximity to one of the below offices:

• Ringwood, Vic
• Ipswich, QLD
• Rockhampton, QLD
• Hervey Bay, QLD
• Port Macquarie, NSW
• Liverpool, NSW
• Camden, NSW
• Coffs Harbour, NSW
• Kingston, ACT
• Rosny Park, TAS

To view a copy of the full Position Description, click here. Alternatively, for more information please contact Sally Hines (Executive Director Strategy and Transformation) at [email protected]  

About you 
We are looking for someone who can draw on their interpersonal skills, strong business acumen, analytical and problem solving skills, along with their ability to communicate effectively, build and maintain positive relationships with key stakeholders and achieve their business objectives.

You will have:

• Experience leading and contributing to complex tenders in the health and community sector.
• Strong writing, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to communicate with and influence senior stakeholders.

Your New Role

Working in a close-knit, collaborative team, you will be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders to refine requirements and manage scalable automated testing. This role will see you planning, implementing, and documenting testing activity for ongoing support of a Standard Operating Environment (SOE) in a large environment. Testing iterative updates of the SOE against a variety of endpoints across various platforms, you will bring demonstrated experience using System centre configuration manager (SCCM) and understanding of the SOE prestaging and build process.

Using your experience, you will effectively use testing management software to Develop, automate and execute comprehensive test plans and cases to identify, track and manage defects in the SOE. Your experience with PowerShell scripting and its interface with testing management software will be an asset to the ongoing support and continuous improvement of the teams work practise. This will allow you to Identify and mitigate risks during testing along with providing detailed analysis and reports on functional test activities and results.

This role is based in our Canberra office.

We are a growing Program team that specialises in IT infrastructure based projects related to end user experience in the Defence space.  It’s an exciting time to be in our team, with a strong pipeline of interesting and complex projects. A new initiative within that program is being established to build on existing infrastructure services to improve modern infrastructure and services. It needs a Technical Lead to take ownership of the entire solution and ensure its technical success.

Our team is very fast paced and work through numerous challenges to deliver client outcomes.  We are seeking a dedicated and resilient individual, who embrace hard work, and want to make a difference.  In return, you will experience professional growth and work with similar individuals with varying levels of industry experience, management at all levels and various technical SMEs across a broad range of disciplines.  We offer training aligned with your role and career path.

What You'll Do in Your New Role:

• Design and define system architecture for new or existing complex computer systems (MA) I would suggest leaving this in as there is the possibility to recommend and design new improvements
• Coordinate design for uplift or modification of subsystems and integration of total system
• Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions
• Determine systems specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility and maintenance of system security
• Identify, analyse, and resolve program support deficiencies
• Develop and recommend corrective actions
• Provide technical guidance for a range of technical skill sets including: database, network, compute and storage
• Responsible for delivery of technical components within a given work stream
• Manages a team of up to ten system engineers on a daily basis
•  Adopt modern technologies supporting CI/CD functionality of solution delivery
• Adopt modern technologies supporting automated testing functionality of solution delivery, including unit testing, functional testing, integrated testing, performance testing, stress testing
• Adopt modern technologies supporting PaaS, Infrastructure as Code, SDDC, SDN, etc.
• Implement modern End User Computing solutions, including but not limited to Win 11 roll-outs, VDI solutions, printing solutions, core services, multifactor authentication, and user experience monitoring solutions.