Job Title: Assistant Secretary, Head of International Tax Division, Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Employer: Office of the Revenue Commissioners
County: Dublin
Closing Date: 3pm, Thursday, 16th April 2026
About the Employer
Revenue is a highly decentralised organisation with over 70 offices across the country. It also has a significant capacity and capability to support and facilitate modern ways of working, including flexible office attendance. It is a leading and innovative user of information and communications technology. It operates strong corporate governance arrangements, is focused on both the provision of quality services to its customers so as to facilitate high levels of voluntary compliance and the effective management of tax and duty compliance risk, including responding appropriately to taxpayer behaviour. The organisation is fully committed to employee engagement and capability building. Revenue actively participates in, and contributes to, Civil and Public Service renewal and modernisation.
About the Role
Revenue’s International Tax Division supports the Minister for Finance and the Department of Finance in policy analysis and development in relation to Ireland’s international engagement on direct taxes, in particular, in relation to corporate business taxes and direct tax agreements, with the EU and OECD and its associated international forums. The Division plays a vital role in guiding ongoing discussions in relation to Pillar 2 of the OECD’s Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, which has significant implications for Ireland’s corporate tax base, and the new discussions at the UN on global tax cooperation.
The Division will also be responsible for ensuring that Revenue effectively contributes to making Ireland’s Presidency of the EU in the second half of 2026 a success in the area of direct taxes. The Division is responsible for extending, updating and protecting Ireland’s network of bilateral direct taxes treaties, including managing Ireland’s participation in the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, which provides a series of tax treaty measures to update international tax rules and lessen the opportunity for tax avoidance by multinational enterprises. As part of this work, the Division is responsible for the international exchange of tax information under a growing number of OECD agreements and EU Directives.
About You
Have an up-to-date knowledge of and insights on how modern tax and duty administrations operate, including the international tax architecture and current developments in that regard at EU, OECD and UN levels.
Have a detailed knowledge of the current Irish business tax legislation environment and of Ireland’s tax treaty network.
Have a sound appreciation of legal and accountancy principles and how these apply in practice from a Revenue business tax perspective.
Have experience or a soundly based understanding of guiding complex tax cases through the workings of the Irish and EU legal systems.
Have significant recent leadership and management experience at an appropriate senior level, including leading and managing teams in a large, dynamic and complex organisation.
Demonstrate a proven track record of providing strong strategic leadership to large teams, supporting and giving direction to the building of capability, capacity and organisational culture to ensure that Revenue delivers to a consistently high standard of performance, accountability and integrity, assured by robust governance and oversight controls.
Have consistently demonstrated at senior level a strong capacity to network, influence, persuade and negotiate effectively.
Be able to support, challenge and collaborate with independent minded senior managers.
Have the personal drive, energy, enthusiasm and desire to maximise the effectiveness of the Division and Revenue.
Be capable of influencing, developing and implementing relevant initiatives across the broader whole-of-government agenda, including Civil Service Renewal and Public Service Reform.
The Closing Date for this competition is Thursday, 16th of April at 3pm.
We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity and encourage applications under all nine grounds of the Employment Equality Act.
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