Justice Officer

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Full-time

**Salary**: $60,295 - $77,430

**Grade**:VPS 2

**Occupation**:Administration

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:VG/5237JULY2025

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?
- **Play a key role providing essential business and operational support**:

- ** Fixed term opportunity until 30/04/2026 with a small team based at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre**:

- ** VPS Grade 2: $60,295 - $77,430 plus superannuation**

**About Us**:

- The Corrections and Justice Services (CJS) group, comprising Corrections Victoria, Justice Health and Justice Services, plays an integral role in developing safer and more resilient communities and in delivering a trusted justice and community safety system.
- Corrections Victoria is responsible for the implementation of 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.
- As part of the CJS group, the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC) is a 694 bed maximum-security facility for female offenders located within the West Metropolitan Region, Department of Justice.

**About the Role**:

- Reporting to the Diversity Supervisor, the Justice Officer plays a key role providing essential business and operational support to the broader Offender Services team, contributing to the smooth and efficient delivery of all functions.

**This position will require direct prisoner contact. The successful incumbant will work Monday to Friday, 76 hours/fortnight.**
- Some of your duties will include:

- Monitoring, reporting and liaising with prisoners, administrators, and prison staff on relevant issues.
- Providing a range of high quality and efficient administrative services.

**About You**:

- To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate:

- Well-developed computer skills.
- Ability to undertake inquiries, prepare reports, correspondence and statistical returns.
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary service delivery team, or Corrections environment would be advantageous.

**How to Apply**:
**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 en vironment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.

- Applications close Sunday 10 August 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 25 July 2025