The Environmental Permitting and Compliance Division is looking for people who are committed and passionate about protecting our environment through ensuring compliance and enforcement with Australia's national environmental laws. It is an exciting time to join the Division within the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Compliance and Enforcement Branch provides a centralised compliance and enforcement capability for the Department's environmental legislation. We work with business, industry, government and the community to understand and improve compliance with national environmental law. The branch conducts civil and criminal investigations, collects and analyses environmental intelligence, monitors compliance with environmental approvals, and engages with the community we regulate. The purpose of the Environment Intelligence Section (EIS) is to discover, understand and inform responses to current and emerging matters of environmental crime and serious non-compliance. It collects, analyses, and disseminates threat intelligence to inform, guide, and support environmental compliance and enforcement plans, priorities, operations, and outcomes. The section comprises three specialised teams: Operations Support. Threat Discovery. Strategic Intelligence. Operations Support applies intelligence resources and capabilities to support compliance and enforcement operations and investigations. Threat Discovery proactively identifies, explores, and informs responses to environmental crime and serious non-compliance threats. Strategic Intelligence provides insightful and robust analysis of current and emerging themes, trends and issues to provide insights and influence decision making. The key duties of the position include Leading the strategic direction of the section, including the development and refinement of intelligence priorities and the accompanying intelligence strategy to meet those priorities. Managing a section to deliver tactical, operational and strategic intelligence outcomes, including collection, analysis and reporting requirements. Managing the development of intelligence professionals, including training and workforce planning. Representing the environment intelligence function in senior executive meetings and government and non-government forums. Building and sustaining strong relationships with stakeholders, such as law enforcement and intelligence partners, commonwealth, state and territory government, and non-government organisations, to deliver environmental outcomes. Managing and allocating resources, including forecasting and allocating resources between competing priorities. Contributing to the leadership of the Compliance and Enforcement Branch.
