Strategic and Executive Correspondence Manager

Strategic and Executive Correspondence Manager

The Manager, Strategic and Executive Communications oversees reporting and governance activities for the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, including managing System Procurement Branch's audit, risk and business continuity planning function.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead and manage the development of System Procurement submissions for the Queensland Health Chief Procurement Officer, working collaboratively with Branch teams and staff.
• Prepare high level briefing documents, submissions, correspondence, reports and communications for the Minister, Director-General, Deputy Director-General, Corporate Services Division.
• Undertake reviews of submissions to the Queensland Health Chief Procurement Officer to ensure procurement activities are compliant with whole-of-government arrangements and Department of Health policies and guidelines, procedures and governance principles.
• Prepare and coordinate high level documents on behalf of Queensland Health, as the lead agency for the Medical Category – category strategy, agency procurement plan.
• Prepare executive documents for whole-of-government and internal procurement-based meetings – agenda, minutes, meeting papers.
• Prepare high quality documentation, including category strategy for the Medical Category, Agency Procurement Plans, reports and updates, briefs and meeting documentation, as required.
• Manage and oversee whole-of-government procurement reporting arrangements on behalf of Queensland Health, including Queensland Procurement Policy implementation reporting, and lead agency reporting for the Medical Category.
• Manage and oversee the development of Queensland Health's Forward Procurement Pipeline, in accordance with the Queensland Procurement Policy.

Role fit

• High level of understanding of Queensland's operations, policies, services and structures to enable the rapid identification of areas within the organisation to provide necessary advice, and subsequent acquisition of information to meet the rapid and urgent information needs to the Minister's Office, Director-General's Office, and other executives.
• High level of understanding of the Queensland Procurement Framework, Buy Queensland, the Queensland Procurement Strategy, the Procurement Policy, and the application of whole-of-government procurement arrangements.
• High level of understanding of Parliamentary, Ministerial and Cabinet processes to support the Minister and Department of Health Executives.
• Demonstrated consultative and communication skills to interact with officers on confidential and sensitive matters within a large, decentralised health service organisation.
• Fostering collaboration, communication and alignment across Queensland Health, other government agencies and industry and union representatives to facilitate and manage whole-of-government and internal Queensland Health meetings to achieve agreed System Procurement objectives.
• Demonstrated background in successfully coordinating complex and large-scale activities and managing multiple tasks with competing priorities and fulfilling obligations and requirements in a timely manner.
• Ability to identify and drive process improvement by using experience to demonstrate the need for change, as well as being able to communicate how change may be enacted.
• Proven issue identification, analytical and research skills, problem solving skills and a demonstrated ability to develop innovative, sensitive and practical solutions to complex issues.

To apply for this exciting opportunity, submit your resume and a short written response (maximum two pages) online today!