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CORPORATE SERVICES

• provide timely, relevant, high quality and best practice corporate and property services with a customer and business focus to meet the changing needs of internal and external clients
• engage and influence stakeholders to ensure the ABS's interests are considered and accommodated, including in whole-of-government initiatives
• position the ABS to meet its current and future workforce needs
• provide high quality corporate infrastructure, and timely and comprehensive management information
• lead the ABS in the areas of culture, policy, legislation, legal compliance, leadership capability development, promoting and protecting the ABS brand and reputation, flexible workplace arrangements and people management.

• a full range of integrated and coordinated services to support the human resources life cycle, from recruitment through to retirement
• a managed property portfolio that incorporates flexible working principles and the opening of a Geelong Office as a centre of excellence for survey management
• leadership, support and guidance (including building capability) to ensure the ABS is maximising the potential of individual employees
• leadership and consultancy on workforce and business planning, business continuity, property, legislation, legal compliance, policies and risk management to support a more flexible, agile ABS
• maintenance and development of corporate support systems and services.

• provide leadership in supporting the ABS transformation by updating relevant policies and raise awareness to ensure the ABS's continued compliance with legislation - ongoing
• implement changed employment arrangements resulting from the new Enterprise Agreements for ABS employees and negotiate the next Enterprise Agreements within the boundaries of the Australian Government Public Sector Workplace Bargaining Policy - ongoing
• continue to enhance client service capability and culture via the corporate services delivery model - ongoing
• implement the key ABS People Plan strategies including those related to workforce planning, people and performance management, high performance, learning and development, flexible working, leadership and general capability enhancement, and cultural renewal - ongoing
• continued implementation of the ABS People Capability Framework to enhance our people and workforce planning/workforce capability for transformation, census and business execution - ongoing
• support the business outputs of the ABS by ensuring the ongoing development and maintenance of statistical capability, leadership and business skills in the workforce - ongoing
• improve management information for decision making - ongoing.