Principal Project Officer

6 months ago


Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

**About the Department of Education**:
The Department of Education (DoE) is committed to ensuring Queenslanders have the education and skills they need to contribute to the economic and social development of Queensland. The Department delivers world-class education services to all students and contributes to the achievement of Queensland's employment, skills and economic priorities. DoE is a large and diverse organisation with a united commitment to teaching and learning environments that are centered around child, student, and staff wellbeing and safety.
The Education Futures Institute (EFI) is a key initiative under the Department's Equity and Excellence strategy to empower departmental staff, educators, school and system leaders to build professional expertise through high quality, targeted capability development across their career.

**About the role**:
This role reports to the Manager, Learning Systems and Data, EFI.

**Key responsibilities**:
This Principal Project Officer (Learning Systems and Data) in the Capability Branch provides essential technical support, data management and systems implementation.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Provide expert advice and insights through enhanced data, analytics services and reporting to improve workforce capability development effectiveness in accordance with departmental policies and standards.
- Analyse business requirements and implement improvements to capability development data and information management.
- Contribute to uplifting branch data and analytical capabilities and processes to support data-informed and insights-driven capability development.
- Manage data and information assets, interpreting and visualising data to identify trends and patterns to solve business problems and translating findings.
- Prepare, update and maintain various program and project artefacts including reporting.

**The ideal applicant is someone who has**:

- Highly developed system and data analysis experience in the collation and presentation of data to provide clear reporting and insights to support informed decision-making.
- Demonstrated ability in analytical problem solving, statistical gathering techniques, performance analysis methodologies, report development and critical analysis and evaluation skills.
- Effective communication skills and working relationships with a wide variety stakeholders.
- While not mandatory, a relevant qualification and one or more of below skills would be well regarded.
- Knowledge of learning, human resource and event management systems
- Knowledge of capability development process and relevant data flow and standards
- Solid knowledge of information management and privacy requirements
- Solid knowledge of SQL Database structure and development
- Knowledge of software development and system integration/implementation cycle

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

**To Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 1-page written response outlining your suitability for the role in response to the attached role description and within the context of the role as described above

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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