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Senior Officer / Senior Executive Service roles
The Senior Executive Service (SES) incorporates the most senior management roles, including chief executives within the Queensland public service.
The government views the public service as a single entity, with executives who are capable of performing a variety of leadership roles across government. Therefore, the SES has a whole-of-government perspective and contributes to and leads whole-of government initiatives directed at creating Queensland as a Smart State.
The aims of the SES are to:
- enhance the productivity and performance of the public service by improving the versatility and performance of senior executives
- encourage the effective deployment of resources throughout the public service
- promote a commitment to high performance in senior executives, and
- promote the concept of senior executives as a government-wide resource able to be utilised by the government of the day.
This means that senior executives:
- identify the government, not a particular agency, as employer
- develop a 'service-wide perspective' - enhancing awareness of whole-of-government priorities not just agency-specific issues
- develop a broad range of knowledge, skills and abilities across the public sector, and
- use mobility as an option to develop a broad skills base.
Officers at the senior officer level (SO) are not members of the Senior Executive Service. Senior officers have tenured employment (not on a contract of employment) but do not receive private use of a fully maintained, government-owned motor vehicle.
Officer who are appointed on a contract of employment under section 70 of the Public Service Act 1996, are also not members of the SES even though remuneration and/or terms and conditions of employment may be equivalent to officers within the SES.
Appointments to the SES are made on a contract of employment for 3 years with an extension of a further period of 2 years based on satisfactory work performance. After five years, a SES officer may be offered a further contract of employment. AS part of the total remuneration package, SES officers can choose to have private use of a fully maintained, government-owned motor vehicle. The choice of vehicle which can be made from an extensive range of vehicles provided by the government’s QFleet.
For more information on becoming a member of the SES, remuneration rates and Section 70 contracts, check out the Section 70 Contract Guidelines or the Resources area, or try one of our contacts.
Last reviewed 26 February 2007