The PBO is seeking an experienced leader with strong fiscal policy, economic and management skills. You will use your skills to shape and drive the PBO's publications and costings work, your leadership and stakeholder engagement management skills to support our external engagement, and your management experience to develop a team ethos across SES and other leadership cohorts. The position of First Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer reports to the Parliamentary Budget Officer. You will work on projects including, but not limited to, key publications, building analytical capability though model and data development, enhancing public understanding of the budget and budget transparency as well as contributing to organisation wide projects and the PBO's corporate functions. You will work closely with the Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officers (SES Band 1) to provide leadership across the PBO. You will take responsibility for managing change though engagement and consultation. You will use your strong people focus, including the ability to motivate, inspire and develop organisational capability and performance, to integrate work across the PBO. You will use your leadership, stakeholder engagement and communication skills to enable and empower staff across the PBO to achieve high performance by setting expectations and creating a shared vision and sense of the agency's purpose. Together with the Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officers you will develop productive relationships with parliamentarians and external bodies including Commonwealth agencies, peak bodies, academics and industry leaders to ensure that the PBO draws upon expertise from a range of sources. As part of the Executive team at the PBO, you will have an integral role in setting and communicating the strategic direction of the organisation. In the year ahead, particular focus areas will be: continuing to deliver high quality costings and budget advice for parliamentarians introducing new members and senators to PBO services maturing our data systems and developing new models in partnership with Commonwealth agencies focusing on harnessing technology to maximise efficient use of data across our modelling, reporting and data visualisation work enhancing knowledge of budget and broader fiscal issues through insightful publications and online tools. The key duties of the position include As a member of the PBO's senior management team, the First Assistant Parliamentary Budget Officer's duties will include: intellectual leadership and drive for the work of the PBO strategic prioritisation of work to ensure that the PBO's limited resources are used effectively providing professional, strategic and operational leadership and expertise across the organisation representing the Parliamentary Budget Office to stakeholders, parliamentary committees and in Australian and international forums representing the Parliamentary Budget Officer when required.
