Executive Assistant

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: $79,122 - $96,073

**Grade**:VPS 3

**Occupation**:Prison and corrective services

**Location**:Melbourne - Northern suburbs

**Reference**:VG/6817SEPT2025

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 Melbourne Assessment Prison**:

- ** An Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**:

- ** VPS Grade 3: $79,122 - $96,073 plus superannuation.**

**About the Business Unit**:

- The Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) is a maximum-security correctional facility located on the fringe of the Melbourne CBD. The Prison is the State's main reception prison, receiving prisoners directly from the Courts and Police and provides assessment and orientation services for all male prisoners received into the prison system. The MAP operates the Melbourne County Court, Supreme Court and Supreme Court Appeals custody facilities, located on the corners of William and Lonsdale Streets in the CBD. These facilities manage both male and female prisoners of all security ratings, operating Monday to Friday. The location manages the St Vincent's Hospital holding cells, providing custodial liaison and coordination of all prisoner escorts attending the hospital for medical outpatient appointments from prison locations across the State. The MAP also looks after the security function at the Adult Parole Board and the Post Sentence Authority located at 50 Franklin Street West Melboune.

**About the Role**:

- The Executive Assistant provides high quality, confidential administrative and executive support to the General Manager.
- Some of your duties will include:

- Effective management of the Office of the General Manager which includes provision of high-level confidential administrative and executive support using an understanding of prison issues to determine priorities
- Managing communications for the General Manager's Office in a timely, considerate, efficient and responsive manner, ensuring the prison is represented professionally
- Managing and maintaining efficient records management systems for the General Manager's Office and the Melbourne Assessment Prison Executive Team including the TRIM database and SharePoint
- Providing administrative assistance to the Executive Team
- To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

**About You**:

- Demonstrated experience in or understanding of working within a prison environment.
- Demonstrated experience in the provision of a full range of executive, confidential support functions at a senior level.
- Qualifications/Requirements:_
- Previous experience providing executive support in an operational context is desirable

**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.

- Applications close Thursday 18 September 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 17 June 2025