Health, Safety

**Health Safety and Wellbeing Coordinator**
- _Salary: _$113,022 - $136,747 (_Plus Superannuation)_
- _Fixed-Term position for 12 months_
- _Usual hours of work: Part-time (3 x days per week)_
- _Usual work location: 1 Spring Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (flexibility may be available)_

**The Role**

As a Health Safety and Wellbeing Coordinator, you will coordinate the planning and implementation of the Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA)'s health, safety and wellbeing (HSW) framework and program, and leads the day-to-day HSW activities across the organisation. This role drives a safety culture across the organisation and manages the safety management system and subsequent reporting requirements.

**Key accountabilities include**:

- Partnering with Executive and Line Management to develop, review and maintain the VFA's Health and Wellbeing Program and OHS framework, including implementing the OHS strategic plan, while demonstrating VFA's commitment to safety first and the development of a high-performing safety culture.
- Reviewing and implementing programs and frameworks to address psychosocial hazards and support workplace mental health.
- Leading the development and implementation of the VFA safety management system and managing safety systems, SOP's and processes on a day-to-day basis.
- Supporting and coordinating committees and designated workgroups.
- Measuring, monitoring and analysing safety performance with results regularly reported internally and externally including presentations to the Board and People and Safety Committee. This includes:

- Monitoring performance metrics and targets at an organisational, divisional and team level
- Producing safety performance reports
- Planning, coordinating and monitoring safety and compliance audit results
- Working alongside People and Culture and Management on matters relating to 'return to work' and WorkCover, both physical and mental.
- Providing strategic advice to Management to inform the alignment to the OHS Strategic Plan.
- Managing key projects to support the improved outcomes of safety and wellbeing across the VFA.
- Monitoring the VFA safety risks and controls to support managers in complying with the requirement to control risks.

**The Team**

The position of Health Safety and Wellbeing Coordinator will work within People and Culture branch, which sits within the VFA group.

**About You**

**To be successful in this role you will have the following skills and experience:

- Demonstrated ability to educate and influence line managers in all HSW requirements, systems, processes and activities, ideally in a similar organisation with regionally based offices and outdoor field workers.
- Proven experience in an HSW coordination or management role and developing and implementing HSW management plans and systems (eg: policies, SOP's and work instructions).
- Experience in reporting against HSW performance measures such as incidents, near misses and LTI's and identifying trends and risks over time to Executive and Board Management to develop appropriate cultural and procedural responses ensuring compliance.
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to deal with staff at all levels encouraging others to always act safely and to "call out" unsafe behaviour, conditions and practices.
- Well-developed project management skills including developing and managing complex projects with the involvement of stakeholders across government sectors.
- Demonstrated ability to be innovative, agile and adapt to needs and responsibilities to best assist the VFA.

**Further Information**

For a confidential discussion, please contact Wendy Crane, Manager People and Culture on 0436 658 857.

The department is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation. We have zero tolerance of child abuse and are committed to taking the necessary steps to protect children from harm by adopting a preventative, proactive and participatory approach to child safety in accordance with the Child Safe Standards.

**How to Apply**

**Applications close at 23:59pm on Wednesday, 27 August 2025.