Organisation structure

The Department of Human Services structure is designed to ensure that we are delivering the Government's key priorities such as service delivery reform.

Under Secretary Kathryn Campbell, our Associate Secretary and Deputy Secretaries are responsible for the delivery of our high quality services to our customers. What we do can be grouped into four broad functions: strategy, service design, service delivery, and enabling.

The following organisation chart shows the department’s structure and position occupancy as at 6 May 2013.

Statutory appointments

The Department of Human Services names the following people as statutory appointments.

  • Malisa Golightly, Chief Executive Medicare — under sub-section 4 (2) (b) of the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973 from the 1 July 2011.
  • Grant Tidswell, Chief Executive Centrelink — under sub-section 7(2) (b) of the Human Services (Centrelink) Act 1997 from the 26 August 2012.
  • Barry Sandison, Child Support Registrar — under sub-section 10 (2) (b) Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988 from 24 April 2012.