Business Analyst, Resilience Team, Operations Group

The Resilience team sits within the Cyber Security and Assurance section and supports the agency's commitment to strengthening the resilience of the AEC’s election management systems and processes.

The team will work across the AEC and with external stakeholders to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen preparedness and uplift the AEC’s electoral event resilience posture against cyber breaches, outages to critical systems and infrastructure, natural disasters and other disruptive events.

The Business Analyst supports the AEC’s work to strengthen the resilience of election management systems and critical electoral event processes. 

The role provides business analysis and resilience expertise to stakeholders across the AEC and contributes to the design, development and implementation of resilience and business continuity activities.

Working with reasonable autonomy, the role undertakes complex analysis, develops evidence-based recommendations and supports decision-making in a dynamic operational environment.

You will be required to:

• Conduct business continuity and resilience analysis for election management systems and critical electoral event processes.
• Review and enhance business continuity documentation, including business impact analyses, process dependency mapping, continuity strategies, exercise findings and improvement plans.
• Facilitate workshops and consultation activities to identify vulnerabilities, resilience requirements and improvement opportunities.
• Analyse operational, cyber security, technology, infrastructure and environmental risks that may affect electoral event delivery.
• Support preparedness, exercises, assurance activities and lessons management activities across the AEC.
• Prepare high-quality advice, reports, briefs and governance documentation.
• Build productive relationships across the AEC and with relevant government stakeholders to support integrated resilience outcomes.
• Promote APS Values, AEC Values and Commitments, political neutrality, sound governance and safe working practices.

To excel you’ll have:

We are seeking a motivated and capable professional who can demonstrate the skills, knowledge and experience required to perform successfully in this role.

• Proven ability to undertake complex analysis, draw evidence-based conclusions, identify risks and opportunities and provide practical advice in a complex operational environment.
• Experience planning, coordinating and delivering work activities that achieve practical outcomes in a complex environment. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear advice, reports and briefing material and influence stakeholders at all levels. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to understand organisational objectives and apply them to business continuity and resilience activities.
• Demonstrated ability to build productive relationships, work collaboratively across business areas and influence stakeholders to achieve practical outcomes.
• Personal drive, integrity and sound judgement, including the ability to work with limited direction and manage competing priorities within legislative, policy and budget parameters.

Desirable

• Knowledge of, or ability to quickly gain knowledge of, Australian electoral law and practice.
• Knowledge of, or ability to quickly gain knowledge of, Australian Government security, risk and protective security frameworks.
• Experience with process modelling, requirements gathering, workshop facilitation, impact assessment, business impact analysis or resilience assurance activities.

• AEC employees must be Australian citizens.
• Any person who is, and seen to be active in political affairs, and intends to publicly carry on this activity, may compromise the strict neutrality of the AEC and cannot be considered.
• Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain a character clearance.
• Applicants are required to consent to, undergo, obtain and maintain the security clearance required for this role.

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is at the heart of Australian democracy. The AEC is responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums, maintaining the Commonwealth electoral roll and making sure the Australian public is informed about all electoral matters. Our goal is to see that all eligible Australians actively participate in our democracy. The AEC values of electoral integrity through quality, agility and professionalism drive strategic and corporate planning and assist in organising the agency in a way that will effectively deliver the business into the future. The AEC is an equal opportunity employer which upholds the APS employment principles and actively encourages a diverse and inclusive workplace. The AEC’s statutory functions in relation to the conduct of elections and referendums require that the AEC and its employees must be, and must be seen to be, impartial and politically neutral. As a result, the AEC Enterprise Agreement and Political Neutrality Policy state that it is an inherent requirement of AEC employment that employees, and prospective employees, are not publicly active in any political affairs and do not publicly engage in such activities. This includes advocating any issues associated with a referendum. Should a prospective employee fail to meet this inherent requirement, they will be ineligible for employment with the AEC.