Contract Manager

1 week ago


Melbourne City Centre, Australia Department of Justice and Community Safety Full time

Manage and oversee contracted health service providers across adult/youth custodial settings.
- Full time fixed term opportunity until June 2024 to focus on system design and ways to drive improvement.
- VPS Grade 5: $105,479 - $127,621 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Contract Manager to provide a critical role within Corrections and Justice Services.

About the Business Unit
Justice Health's objective is to improve the health of adult and youth offenders in Victorian custodial settings. As a business unit of Corrections and Justice Services within the Department of Justice and Community Safety, Justice Health oversees the delivery of health, mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) services to persons in Victoria's adult and youth justice facilities by contracted service providers.
About the Role
As the Manager, Health Services Contracts, you will be responsible for the management and oversight of contracted health service providers, across adult and/ or youth custodial settings, with a strong focus on innovation and continuous improvement. You will ensure that the State receives value for money through the delivery of best practice contract administration and contemporary approaches to commercial management.
This role will be the department's relationship lead for health services and provides the opportunity to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to build shared commitment and drive system level performance improvement.

**Some of your duties will include**:

- Provide contract management and performance improvement activities, including managing relationships relating to operational, financial, and contractual risks and issues that may emerge.
- Identify, monitor and respond to emerging issues and risks, formulate strategic options and responses, and provide authoritative and timely advice on health service performance and areas for improvement.
- Actively monitor contractual compliance, including compliance against key performance measures, and develop authoritative written documentation and recommendations to senior management on contractual and operational issues.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
About you

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Demonstrated experience in the management of complex service contracts and the ability to prepare comprehensive reports including commercial and contractual analysis.
- Exceptional advisory, negotiation, communication and relationship building skills, with demonstrated capacity to work effectively within a sensitive environment.

**Qualifications**:

- A tertiary qualification in fields related to health, business and/or management would be desirable.

How to Apply

**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**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.


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