Executive Director, Business and Workforce Delivery

Agency Department of Trade, Business and Asian Work unit Business and Workforce Delivery

Relations

Job title Executive Director, Business and Workforce Designation Executive Contract Officer 2

Delivery

Job type Full time Duration Fixed for 3 years

Remuneration package $254,585 Location Alice Springs, Darwin, Katherine, Tennant

Creek, Nhulunbuy

Position number 32362 RTF 350261 Closing 01/07/2026

Contact officer Amanda Nobbs-Carcuro, Executive Director, Occupational Licensing, Associations and MigrationNT on

08 8999 7918 or ***email_hidden***

About the agency https://dtbar.nt.gov.au/

Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=350261

APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR

TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS.

Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity

The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates

people with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or

job, please discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go

to the OCPE website .

Primary objective

Provide executive leadership and strategic direction to a geographically dispersed team, balancing strategic regional development with

operational demands, supporting the current and future needs of business and industry in line with the government’s economic agenda.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Lead and coordinate regional service delivery, ensuring initiatives including programs, grants, strategy, policy and reforms are

responsive to local need and translate into the growth of Territory businesses.

2. Develop and lead a high performing multidisciplinary team and work interdependently, exercise initiative, flexibility, and political

astuteness, problem solving skills and sound judgement.

3. Establish and sustain effective collaborative relationships and strong networks and partnerships with colleagues and peers, business

and industry and stakeholders to gain buy-in to departmental strategies and initiatives.

4. Represent the Department and Northern Territory on local and national working groups and committees across the responsibilities of

the Business and Workforce Delivery Branch.

5. Actively contribute as a member of the Division’s leadership team through the department’s Executive Leadership Team to ensure

high standards of team and organisational accountability and performance.

6. Lead and coordinate the region’s emergency management function, working with on the ground teams and government partners to

plan, mobilise and deliver effective emergency response and resilience activities.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. Strategic leadership: Shape the strategic direction and drive continuous improvement through effective and adaptive leadership that

gains commitment to shared objectives by setting a culture of collaboration, innovation and accountability within and across teams

and departments. Including the ability to operate autonomously in a complex regional setting.

2. Collaboration: Demonstrated collaboration capability that fosters collaboration across diverse communities and builds productive

working relationships and networks. Promoting reciprocal information sharing to build knowledge, solve problems and achieve results

with a firm decision-making authority.

3. Outcomes oriented: Achieves results through driving a culture of achievement, considering multiple perspectives and associated

ramifications, and ensuring ideas and intended action become reality and planned projects result in expected outcomes.

4. People management: Proven capability to proactively build, lead and manage regional teams across multiple areas to deliver on key

initiatives and programs that are responsive to local needs and aligned to regional economic priorities.

5. Good governance: Exemplar in good governance with a proven ability to innovate, drive change, manage risks and achieve results

within a transparent and accountable framework.

6. Communicates with influence: Exceptional oral and written skills, with demonstrated experience in engaging with diverse regional

stakeholders, managing localised emergency functions, representing the department and preparing Ministerial briefings, Cabinet

correspondence, polices and papers and presentations on sensitive and complex subject matter.

Desirable

1. Tertiary qualification in a relevant field.

Further information

The work environment is dynamic, fast-paced and results-driven with high expectations of success across the spectrum of operational and

whole of government policy and strategic deliverables.

When choosing to apply for this position, the applicant should consider the full requirements of the position in aligning their work

experience and capabilities to this role. Please refer to the Capability Leadership Framework