Board of Management
The Board of Management comprises DPC’s senior-level executive officers who:
• provide organisation oversight
• provide strategic direction
• ensure DPC is operating in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable manner
• ensure DPC is meeting changing community needs and government priorities.
As of 30 June 2024, DPC’s Board of Management members were:
• Jeremi Moule, Secretary
• Joshua Puls, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet, Legal and Governance
• Jason Loos, Deputy Secretary, Economic Policy and State Productivity
• Terry Garwood, Deputy Secretary, First Peoples – State Relations
• Brigid Sunderland, Deputy Secretary, Social Policy and Intergovernmental Relations.
In 2023–24 the Board of Management fulfilled its mandate to provide organisational oversight and strategic direction, meeting 10 times.
The Board of Management has the following subcommittees:
• Budget and Finance — acts as an advisory body for DPC’s Board of Management and provides strategic oversight of DPC’s budget and finances, and identifies priorities and challenges. The subcommittee promotes DPC’s drive for improved financial sustainability through the effective oversight and allocation of financial resources.
• Self-determination and Reform — supports DPC to progress the significant reform underway in the Treaty and First Peoples portfolio. The subcommittee also performs a key role in improving internal systems, policies and processes to enable self-determination, including facilitating action across their areas of the department in line with whole-of-government commitments.
Audit and Risk Management Committee
The Audit and Risk Management Committee provides independent assurance and advice on the effectiveness of DPC’s financial management systems and controls, performance, stability, compliance with laws and regulations and risk management. It also oversees the department’s internal audit program.
The committee reports to DPC’s Secretary and is established in line with the Standing Directions under the Financial Management Act.
During 2023–24, the committee met 5 times to acquit its legislative charter obligations to the Secretary by:
• monitoring the quality of reporting on financial performance
• reviewing the quality of DPC’s annual financial report and report of operations and providing attestations to the Secretary
• monitoring the outcomes of the external audit process of the annual financial report
• monitoring DPC’s responses to the outcomes of VAGO performance audits
• appraising the effectiveness and efficiency of DPC’s systems and controls for financial management, performance and sustainability
• reviewing processes designed to ensure that DPC complies with the requirements of the Financial Management Act, Standing Directions and instructions, including updates on the resolution of any reported non-compliances
• endorsing the internal audit plan, monitoring delivery of the internal audit programme and reviewing reports on completed internal audit reviews
• monitoring progress on completion of recommendations arising from internal and external audit activity
• monitoring the effectiveness of DPC’s risk management program.
As of 30 June 2024, the committee comprised the following independent members:
• Geoff Harry (chair)
• Andrew Whittaker
• Rachel Thomson
• Katie Williams.
Executive Remuneration Committee
DPC’s Executive Remuneration Committee’s role is to ensure that a consistent and rigorous approach is taken to setting and adjusting executive remuneration across DPC. The committee reviews all appointments to executive roles within DPC, manages the executive officer cap for DPC and ensures fairness and budget considerations are considered in determining the remuneration of DPC executives.
The specific responsibilities of the committee are to:
• manage DPC’s Senior Executive Service (SES) remuneration
• ensure the remuneration of all DPC executives is appropriate to DPC business needs and are in line with DPC’s executive gender pay principles and recommends adjustments to assure transparency and fairness
• ensure that DPC has sustainable executive staffing levels that are appropriate to DPC business needs and meet labour sustainability cap targets within its funding envelope
• ensure all processes and information related to recruitment and executive remuneration adhere to the public sector values, particularly concerning merit, equity and transparency
• report to the VPSC annually (and on request) details of executive employment in DPC and its portfolio entities in the form and format advised at the time.
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee
The Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee is a consultative committee made up of DPC’s health and safety representatives and may also include first aid officers.
The committee has been established in line with the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 to:
• facilitate cooperation between the employer and employees in instigating, developing and carrying out measures designed to ensure the health and safety of employees in the workplace
• assist formulation, review and dissemination to employees of policies and procedures relating to health and safety that are to be implemented and complied with at DPC
• investigate any matter that may be a risk to the health and safety of people at DPC
• review reported accidents and incidents and maintain DPC’s Occupational Health and Safety Risk Register, including risk ratings and controls
• attempt to resolve any matter or request for DPC to conduct a review of the matter where no resolution can be determined
• establish designated working groups to reflect the DPC working environment
• ensure elections are conducted to fulfil the health and safety representative requirement across the department.
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