Senior Project Officer

Corrective Services Salary: Level 6, $115, 824 - $127,647 per annum, plus 11.5% Superannuation (PSCA2024)Position number: Pool Ref 231972 Work type: Fixed Term - Full Time, Permanent - Full Time Location: Perth CBDClosing date: 2025-07-28 4:30 PM (YYYY-MM-DD)Attachments: - Applicant Information Pack You can view and print these PDF attachments by downloading Adobe Reader.
This recruitment pool will run for a period of twelve months and may be used to fill ongoing fixed term contracts and permanent opportunities.
Currently, there is one permanent position and one fixed term contract available for immediate filling.
About Justice When you join the Department of Justice , you become part of a people-focused organisation, working hard to make our community a fairer and safer place to live.
We offer many different employment opportunities in locations around Western Australia.
You will have a chance to make a real difference to your local communities and to the lives of those you work with.
About The Role The Adult Women's Prisons Directorate supports the custodial operations with implementation of performance framework and service delivery standards for women across the state custodial facilities.
The team works collaboratively with the Deputy Commissioners to ensure custodial operations, services and programs are delivered to women offenders in the regional prisons.
The Senior Project Officer supports the Assistant Superintendent Custodial Operations in the team with an array of correspondences including inquiries from internal and external stakeholders and risk management.
The Senior Project Officer provides high quality reports, briefings, and submissions in accordance with agreed standards of quality and timeliness.
The Senior Project Officer also undertakes comprehensive and strategic research and analysis that assists with delivery of the Custodial Operations for Women.
Role Specific Responsibilities Plans, undertakes and manages research, environmental scanning and analysis necessary to identify best practice with respect to performance management of the public prison system; Designs and implements performance criteria to assess prison performance; both individually and as a whole prison system; that are aligned a systematic evidence based approach that allow for continuous business optimism; Consults and negotiates with stakeholders, advises and makes recommendations to senior management and other key participants in connection to strategies and programs relevant to the project objectives; Prepares and presents comprehensive reports, memos and other documents incorporating research and feedback to inform the strategic decision making process within the Division and across the Agency.
Job related requirements – the ability to demonstrate the following skills, knowledge and experience in the context of the role specific responsibilities.
Shapes and Manages Strategy The ability to; understand the Department's objectives and links to the whole-of-government agenda, understand the strategic direction and objectives of the business unit and the factors that may impact on work plans and operational goals, scan the environment to monitor priorities and keep self and other stakeholders informed on critical factors and issues, think laterally, be innovative, identify and work collaboratively to overcome challenges and implement reform program initiatives are important for this role.
Achieve Results The ability to; evaluate project/program performance, identify areas of improvement and initiate changes to ensure positive outcomes, deal positively with uncertainty and cope in a changing environment, able to determine appropriate actions despite a lack of clarity, a focus on quality, adherence to current procedures and managing projects to completion within a set timeframe are fundamental to this role.
Builds Productive Relationships The capacity to network effectively in order to build and sustain relationships with key stakeholders, team members and other staff in the agency, to actively listen to staff, colleagues and stakeholders involved in the reform program and encourage engagement and contribution to the process is a requirement for this role.
Exemplifies Personal Integrity and Self-Awareness A demonstrated; high level of personal commitment to integrity, professionalism, probity and personal development; adherence to the Code of Conduct; ability to constructively challenge issues, discuss alternatives to progress issues, meet objectives, follow up to finalise work, maintain a positive outlook.
Engage with risk by providing impartial and clear advice, constructively challenging issues and proposing solutions.
Actively identifies potential risk issues and reports to management.
Communicates and Influences Effectively A demonstrated ability to present messages confidently and persuasively and to successfully listen, understand and adapt to a range of audiences is a requirement for this role.
Role Specific Criteria Demonstrated experience and skills in the management and coordination of complex projects in a large, multi-disciplinary organisation is essential.
Knowledge of the factors impacting Women in custody.
Eligibility Permanent positions – To be eligible for appointment to permanent positions in the West Australian Public Sector you must be an Australian citizen or have permanent resident status in Australia.
Application process We Require You To Submit Please provide examples to support your claims.
The examples can be scenario based to demonstrate your capabilities.
Provide a comprehensive Resume / Curriculum Vitae, that clearly outlines your transferable skills, experience and highlights your key achievements.
A statement no more than 2 pages, addressing the following job-related requirements and role specific criteria as described above.
Shapes and Manages Strategy Communicates and Influences Effectively Knowledge of the factors impacting Women in custody Contact details of two work related referees.
All remaining Job-Related Requirements and Role Specific Criteria will be assessed at a later stage in the recruitment process.
Pool Recruitment This pool will be open for a period of 12 months from the day after the breach of standard claim period closes.
Permanent, fixed term, full time and part time appointments may be offered as vacancies arise; however, an appointment is not guaranteed.
The Department of Justice uses recruitment pools to build a bank of talent for future opportunities.
Applicants found suitable in this pool, may be considered for subsequent, similar vacancies, with the Department of Justice for the duration of the pool.
For further job-related information If you would like further information regarding the vacancy please contact Dianne Dyer, Executive Manager on (08) 9264 1266 for a confidential discussion.
Equity and Diversity The Department of Justice is committed to building a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion.
We actively promote the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, women, culturally and linguistically diverse people, and other diversity groups.
Aboriginal job seekers may contact the Aboriginal Workforce Development Team on aboriginalworkforcedevelopment@justice.wa.gov.au or call (08) 9264 1700 for culturally appropriate application advice.
Applicants with disability requiring adjustments or accessibility support at any stage of the selection process can contact the hiring manager as listed under the ' For further job-related information ' section or contact the Diversity and Inclusion team on Workforce Diversity@justice.wa.gov.au or (08) 9264 1700 for a confidential discussion.
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