Operations Manager

Location: Geelong

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $102,703 - $122,684

Occupation: Prison and Corrective Services

Reference: VG/7360-OCT23

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?
- ** Manage a team of custodial and non-custodial officers delivering a range of correctional services**:

- **Ongoing full time opportunity to work within Marngoneet Correctional Centre.**:

- **COG Grade 4: $100,547 - $122,684 plus superannuation.**

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Operations Manager to provide a critical role within Corrections Victoria.

**About the Business Unit**

Marngoneet Correctional Centre is a medium security facility that houses a mix of sentenced and remand men. The role of the facility is to contain prisoners safely, securely, and humanely, focusing on the individual needs of the men with the aim of providing a successful transition back into the community or on their continued journey through the prison system. The facility has a strong focus on achieving positive outcomes and provides a range of engaged services. Our highly skilled workforce provides supervision and case management and are dedicated to enhancing opportunities to strengthen prisoner pathways.

**About the Role**

The Operations Manager will be responsible for managing a team of custodial and non-custodial officers delivering a range of correctional services for which the incumbent will require superior leadership skills. The Operations Manager has responsibility for overseeing all aspects of prisoner management and ensuring that policies and procedures are followed. This will include liaising with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure that offender management issues and requirements are being met.

It is a requirement of this position to work weekends, public holidays and perform standby duties which will be remunerated in accordance with the applicable provision of the VPS Determination.

Some of your duties will include:

- Provide leadership to the Marngoneet Staff promoting the prisons cultural change initiatives and manage staff in ways that reflect modern correctional practices.
- Develop, manage, and ensure the quality of the delivery of custodial processes including offender management, movement control, operation of security equipment, reception and discharge, escorts, visitors and visits, urinalysis, searching, security procedures, disciplinary issues and hearings and Review and Assessment.
- Identify, plan, and provide professional development, supervision, and performance management, appraisal, and review of Marngoneet Prison staff. In addition to the management of staff to achieved identified service outcomes, this includes assessment of staff training needs, adherence to EEO and OHS procedures and the daily allocation of work tasks

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:

- Knowledge of contemporary correctional services and the issues facing Corrections Victoria
- Knowledge of the Corrections Act 1986 and Corrections Regulations 2019
- Knowledge of the 2021 Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System
- Knowledge of Corrections Victoria Case Management practices and understanding how structured interventions reduce reoffending
- **Ability to uphold The Department's Values and Behaviours: Serve the community, work together, act with integrity, respect other people and make it happen.**

**Desirable Qualifications**
- Certificate III or IV in Correctional Practice

**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 r