Parliamentary Officer

Description:

About the team

The Ministerial and Executive Enabling Branch provides a range of support and assistance to the Executive and our Ministers. This includes the planning and reporting framework required under relevant legislation, parliamentary and Cabinet support, governance support, internal audit, enterprise risk management and fraud and corruption control. It is at the heart of the department and enables Ministers, the Executive and broader department to achieve outcomes.

The Parliamentary Services Team sits within this branch and provides advice, support and liaison between the department, portfolio agencies and our Ministers’ offices.

The team provides a variety of services and is responsible for managing the department’s many day-to-day parliamentary and co-ordination operations.

The team’s tasks include but are not limited to:

• facilitating the workflow of ministerial correspondence
• administering portfolio co-ordination requests
• coordinating the portfolio’s attendance at Senate Estimates
• providing administration and other support for the Parliamentary Document Management System (PDMS)
• managing other related functions including Question Time Briefs (QTB), parliamentary inquiries and questions on notice.