Director-General

The Director-General, Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women will provide strategic and outcomes-focused leadership to deliver critical services that improve the lives of Queensland’s most vulnerable children, youth, women, men and families.

Delivering on the Queensland Government’s objectives, including Our Future  State: Advancing Queensland’s Priorities, your role will be integral in leading and contributing to:

• engaging more young people in education, training and work
• enabling the safety and wellbeing of children and young people—especially those in, or leaving, care
• ending domestic, family and sexual violence
• promoting gender equality
• increasing immunisation rates
• improving readiness for school
• reducing youth suicides
• reducing rates of youth reoffending and crime victimisation.

Your impact will be far reaching. You will have extensive, relevant experience leading community or social services objectives, strategies and agendas in a complex and diverse context. You will be a proven leader of service-delivery innovation and have detailed subject-matter knowledge and experience relevant to the agency.

As a key member of the whole-of-government Leadership Board, you will provide evidence-based, strategic, policy and operational advice to Government in a Westminster system. You will engage with stakeholders, promote collaboration and ensure integrated and ethical decision making is in the public interest. Your leadership will model the public sector values.

Applications close 3 November 2019.