Description:
- Utilise your Administrative expertise to provide support and advice to Corrections Victoria at Loddon Region Prisons
- An Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- VPS Grade 3: $76,817 -$93,275 plus superannuation.
About the Business Unit:
Corrections Victoria is responsible for the direction, management and operation of Victoria's prison system and Post Sentence Scheme. As a service agency within the Department of Justice & Community Safety (DJCS), Corrections Victoria develops and implements policies, programs and services that ensure the safe and secure containment of prisoners, and that seek to rehabilitate offenders by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.
About the Role:
The Administration Team Leader supervises a team of Justice Officers within the Prison Services program area of the Department of Justice & Community Safety. The role requires a strong focus on ensuring the Justice Officer workforce are suitably skilled and trained to deliver quality services. The role also requires a high degree of integrity, effective communication skills, an ability to resolve competing demands, problem-solving skills as well as an ability to monitor service delivery and compliance.
This position may require direct prisoner contact and may involve weekend and public holiday work, remunerated in accordance with the applicable provision of the Victorian Public Service Enterprise Agreement 2024.
Some of your duties will include:
- Supervising and leading a team of Justice Officers, to ensure effective delivery of operational support, reception and administrative services for the Loddon Mallee Region
- Providing team leadership, including mentoring, professional development and performance management and identifying training needs to develop staff capability and skills
- Maintaining appropriate staffing levels to ensure uninterrupted and cost-effective services to the location.
To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
About You:
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:
- Well-developed computer literacy
- Good knowledge of relevant legislation, policies, procedures, guidelines and regulations
- Experience in leading a multi-disciplinary service delivery team would be advantageous.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- A current driver's licence would be desirable.
How to Apply:
Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include reference checks, national police checks and misconduct screening. Dependant on the role, other checks may include VicRoads checks, drivers licence checks, medical checks, Working with Children Checks, and Declaration of Private Interests (for executive and responsible officer roles).
If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.
FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:
- For this particular vacancy, priority consideration applies to Victorian Public Service (VPS) and select employees of the Victorian Public Sector who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) jobs board platform.
- For all VPS employees, due to the new Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) policy, please apply through the JSE to be eligible to be considered for this position in the first round.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.