Job Satisfaction at Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

As a grad my role and day-to-day responsibilities vary but I have felt like my various teams have given me meaningful work to contribute to their team goals and long term projects.

I have worked in different areas so I am going to summarise them because they have been a mix of more direct and indirect work. I have enjoyed my work because it has given me insight into the challenges that government is working through some of which has been very rapid paced and dynamic and some that has been more removed and observatory. I have felt that as a graduate I was given a mix of diverse work which has challenged me and helped me to understand the type of work that I gravitate to naturally. Some has been business as usual and a bit boring some has had a direct impact on how government makes decision and been very interesting. All of it has been beneficial to learning what I want to do in the aps more broadly and the department specifically.

Changes greatly as we are in our grad year. This keeps my weeks interesting though and I enjoy challenging myself in different environments.

Coming into the public service I work has been an appropriate level and I have been provided with adequate support to complete these tasks.

I am graduate so I undertake a wide range of responsibilities.

Varies team to team but usually I participate in business as usual tasks such as monitoring mailboxes, engaging with stakeholders. I have undertaken the secretariat and chair roles in meetings, drafted correspondence and briefs, managed registers, onboarded new staff, coordinated with stakeholders.

While the people are good, sometimes there is a lack of direction, or not enough work and feedback on work. The pace is a bit slow.

More responsibility would be good, some teams are great it depends where you are

- write policy - research

Thankful that my relationship with my manager is relaxed and they give me supervisory responsibilities day to day - writing documents and responding to emails and helping assist the government to run

My current branch completes a variety of work. My day-to-day consists of drafting public reports for the current policy project, researching potential policies and completing policy proposals.

Whs bau projects for wellness

My team looks after public transport accessibility for people with disability.

I brief cabinet ministers on non-portfolio issues.

Providing ministerial support

Good balance of fast-paced and long term research work.

Undertake economic analysis and modelling to inform policy

I design and develop data policy through research & stakeholder consultation.

Legal research, law reform, participation in the legislation making process, liaising with stakeholders - very diverse breadth and depth of tasks.

At the moment, having just finished my graduate program, I am still working on small things - various admin tasks and event organising. I am looking forward to working up to a higher position.