About the DepartmentDFAT's Office of Southeast Asia (OSA) requires data engineering, data science and data architecture skills to support development greater data capability in the Department and supporting a 'data-informed diplomacy' capability.About the RoleThe successful candidate will drive OSA's understanding of data to inform policy and program work, including providing advice on best practice data collection, data integrity, data interpretation and representation.Key Duties
Maintain and develop data systems to support DFAT's 'data informed diplomacy' objectives including:
scoping and development of relevant data sources, open source and official
scoping and building of data models, working with a PowerBI developer
maintenance and extension of scripts/tools for ETL, data wrangling, data cleaning and robust data syncing, utilising Python and other tools
Data analysis and visualisation
Maintain and develop AI tool(s) to support policy analysis including;
maintenance and extension of a project for the summarisation and further analysis of open-source (news) and official material (Python, OpenAI, Azure)
subject to stakeholder engagement, expand or fork the tool for other use cases
fulfil documentation requirements.
How to ApplyClick APPLY or contact Marisa Conlon, Senior Consultant, Talent Acquisition at marisa@fprs.com.au for further information on the role.Please submit applications in Word format only by midnight, 1st September 2025.FIRST PEOPLE Recruitment Solutions is a majority Aboriginal owned agency providing contingent contracts, fixed term contracts and permanent recruitment solutions to Government and Corporate Australia.Our Head Office is based in Canberra with a national reach to all the states and territories, regional and remote areas of Australia.FIRST PEOPLE Recruitment Solutions acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respect to them and their cultures; and to elders past, present and emerging.
