Team Leader, Historical Forced Adoption

**Utilise your Leadership expertise to provide support and advice to the Redress Design and Delivery unit**:

- **A Fixed-Term, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service until 29th January 2027**:

- **VPS Grade 5.2: $124,888 - $136,747 plus superannuation.**

**About the Business Unit**:
Redress Design and Delivery (RDD) is responsible for administering two redress schemes that acknowledge past harm, provide a range of support options for individuals who have experienced harm, and operate independently from the organisation responsible for causing the harm. It provides high-quality strategic policy advice, and is responsible for administration and delivery of frontline services.

The RDD business unit administers the schemes via 'scheme based teams.' Each team consists of a Senior Manager, Team Leader, Principal Consultant, Senior Consultants, Senior Assessors and support staff. The Strategy and Operations team provide policy, compliance, monitoring and business support across all two schemes.

RDD is currently responsible for the following Redress Schemes:

- ; Delivering a redress scheme for Fiskville affected persons in response to recommendations from the 2016 Inquiry into the Fiskville Training College Final Report. The scheme provides financial redress, which acknowledges past harm and offers financial and non-financial support.

**About the Role**:
Some of your duties will include:

- Supporting the manager to supervise, support and guide a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality, accurate, consistent, and timely assessment recommendations and case management in accordance with key parameters and policy expectations of the scheme
- Being accountable for the progression, timeliness, and quality of assessments and case management to ensure compliance with performance standards, operational policies, and procedures
- Supporting the development of the assessors and case managers in collaboration with the manager, ensuring you identify and address skill gaps while utilising areas of expertise.

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

**About You**:

- A strong ability to motivate and mentor staff, develop and empower them to accomplish tasks, while effectively managing resources to achieve quality outcomes in accordance with performance standards
- Significant experience in providing victim-centric case management to vulnerable individuals, with specialist knowledge in allied health, or working with victims of crime, abuse, sexual violence, and/or mental health
- A potent ability to analyse and critically evaluate complex information to establish a strong written evidentiary basis for an assessed recommendation
- Qualifications/Requirements:_
- The following experience and qualifications are essential:

- A qualification or relevant experience in one or more of the following areas: law, equal opportunity, criminal justice, social policy or health
- Previous experience in supervising and developing staff, and a commitment to working collaboratively and promoting a positive team culture.

**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 environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.