Team Leader, Administration

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:$76,817 - $93,275

**Grade**:VPSG3

**Occupation**: Administration/Secretarial

**Location**: Loddon

**Reference**: VG/3649FEBRUARY2025

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- ** 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**:

- 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**:
**_ 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.

Applications close Wednesday 12 March 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 04 December 2024