About the Business Unit

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) function will be a key enabler to the Clean Energy Regulator's (CER) digital transformation, driving the responsible, ethical, and effective use of AI to enhance regulatory, operational efficiencies and policy outcomes. Under the leadership of the Chief AI Officer, the team will support AI usage across the Agency, aligned with the Agency's strategic objectives and whole-of-government digital priorities.

With expertise in artificial intelligence principles, practices, and technologies, the team ensures AI initiatives are designed and deployed in ways that are scalable, secure, and aligned with the Agency's values and operational goals. This includes applying robust AI governance frameworks, ensuring model integrity and performance, and integrating AI capabilities into core business processes to support sustainable and responsible innovation. The team operates in alignment with Agency program and BAU investment prioritisation and IT and data architecture governance arrangements.

The AI Team is structured around two teams:

AI Technical Capability Development

This section leads the design, development, and deployment of AI solutions across the Agency. It provides technical leadership, supports pilot programs, and ensures alignment with IT architecture and data governance. The team is responsible for delivering robust solutions, developing and refining AI models, and integrating AI platforms into the Agency's digital environment. Their work ensures that AI systems are secure, scalable, and aligned with CER architecture standards, supporting both operational efficiency and innovation.

AI Adoption

This section focuses on enabling the workforce to confidently and ethically engage with AI technologies. It delivers training, builds communities of practice, and supports the identification, definition, and development of AI use cases through structured business analysis, process mapping, and stakeholder engagement. This section ensures AI is adopted in a way that is inclusive, people-centric, and aligned with the Agency's values and operational goals.

Together, these teams support the Chief AI Officer in delivering strategic leadership, uplifting AI literacy, managing risk, and ensuring the Agency remains adaptive and innovative.

About the Section

This section focuses on enabling the workforce to confidently and ethically engage with AI technologies. It delivers training, builds communities of practice, and supports the identification, analysis, and development of AI use cases through structured business analysis, stakeholder engagement, and evidence-based decision-making, ensuring AI is adopted in a way that is inclusive, people-centric, and aligned with the Agency's values and operational goals.

The AI Adoption Section plays a key role in embedding artificial intelligence into the Clean Energy Regulator's culture, systems, and services. Focused on people and purpose, the section supports the Agency's transition to smarter, more responsive ways of working by making AI accessible, trusted, and impactful.

Focus:

• Empowering Staff: Building confidence and capability across the Agency by supporting staff to understand, engage with, and benefit from AI tools in their daily work.
• Collaborative Delivery: Working closely with business areas to analyse operational needs, define requirements, and co-design AI solutions that deliver measurable improvements in decision-making and efficiency.
• Inclusive Innovation: Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of professionals and domain experts to ensure solutions are practical, ethical, and aligned with the Agency's values and strategic direction.
• Partnerships Across Government: Collaborating with other Australian Government agencies to share insights, align approaches, and contribute to a coordinated public sector AI strategy.
• Supporting Change: Leading change management efforts by ensuring solutions are informed by clear requirements, business impacts, and user needs, enabling smooth and sustainable AI adoption.

The key duties of the position include:

The AI Enablement Lead supports the implementation of strategic initiatives to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across the agency, ensuring alignment with government priorities, ethical standards, and operational goals. This role involves stakeholder engagement, change management, and cross-functional coordination to harness AI opportunities and drive innovation. It also has a focus on managing the lifecycle of AI initiatives and ensuring business process re-engineering work informs efficiency or quality improvements for existing Agency processes.

• Drive AI workforce adoption and change management: Lead CER's people-centred rollout of Copilot and other AI initiatives by building trust, supporting different readiness levels, and embedding AI into everyday work practices safely and sustainably. Proactively monitor new Copilot and other AI capabilities as they are released, assess their relevance to CER staff workflows, and coordinate timely adoption activities (e.g. pilots, communications, and change impacts) to support effective uptake.
• Build AI capability and literacy across the agency: Deliver role-based learning (training, coaching, communities of practice, and practical guidance) that helps staff confidently and effectively use AI tools.
• Identify and scale high-value AI use cases: Work with business areas to analyse processes, develop practical Copilot use cases, and drive measurable efficiency, quality, and productivity improvements.
• Maintain responsible AI governance and assurance: Ensure AI adoption aligns with APS values, DTA policy, privacy, security, and human oversight requirements while reinforcing safe and ethical use behaviours.
• Stakeholder Management: Initiate, foster, and manage effective relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, including senior executives, technical specialists, business areas, policy makers, and external partners, to facilitate successful AI adoption and integration for quality or efficiency improvements.
• AI Value Realisation: Establish and monitor performance metrics, providing regular reporting and analysis to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of AI initiatives and inform continuous improvement.
• Capability Leadership: Supervise, mentor, and develop team members, including managing performance, supporting professional growth, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing work environment.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Demonstrated capability in leading and delivering digital transformation or AI-focused initiatives within complex organisational settings, exercising the autonomy and judgement.
• Understanding of artificial intelligence technologies, emerging trends, and their strategic relevance to public sector service delivery, with the ability to provide authoritative advice to senior stakeholders.
• Plan and deliver training and enablement programs across all staff, business areas and departmental leadership.
• Highly developed communication, negotiation, and leadership skills, enabling effective engagement with senior executives, technical specialists, policy makers, and external partners.
• Proven track record in managing and influencing high-level stakeholder relationships, facilitating collaboration across business areas and driving agency-wide strategic outcomes.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, apply sound decision-making, and drive innovation while ensuring compliance with legislative, ethical, and regulatory requirements.
• An understanding of the Microsoft AI technology stack including Copilot, Azure Foundry, Google Gemini, Anthropic and other emerging AI models.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, applying structured analysis, sound judgement, and problem-solving to define requirements, assess impacts, and deliver practical solutions while ensuring compliance with legislative, ethical, and regulatory requirements.
• Formal qualification in Change Management desirable, but not required.

Eligibility

The Public Service Act 1999 requires all people joining the Australian Public Service to be Australian citizens. You will be asked to declare your citizenship status as part of the application process.

We will conduct pre-employment checks before we offer you employment. For us to do this, you will be required to supply certified copies of identity documents.

It is a condition of employment with the Clean Energy Regulator that you can obtain and maintain a security clearance at a baseline level. If you are offered a role and do not already hold a security clearance at or above this level, you will need to undertake the security clearance process before you can commence employment. Any employment offer will be contingent upon obtaining this clearance.

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