Road Safety School Engagement Officer

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $92,332 - $104,762

Occupation: Projects

Reference: 2959

**About the Role**

The role is responsible for engaging with school communities including school leaders, teachers, students and parents to promote Road Safety Education and interventions across learning stages and to help school communities build their understanding and capacity to embed good road safety policy and practice in school settings. The role is also responsible for expert engagement with regional road safety partnerships officers, local and state government to ensure that road safety is aligned to other priority issues such health and wellbeing, climate change and active transport.

**Position Description Click here**

**Position Outcomes**
- Project Delivery: Research, identify, and support co-design activities with schools to support the implementation of the Whole of School Community Model. Work effectively with school communities to promote and build awareness of road safety education and interventions across the learning stages. Build the capacity of school communities to implement road and transport safety policy and practice.
- Develop capability: Explore and improve knowledge and practice of safe systems thinking/embedment in school communities. Including the delivery of professional development and training and information sessions to school leaders, school council, teaching staff, students and parents.
- Strong Relationships: Builds and maintains effective and strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and leads strategic partnerships with Department of Education and Training, Local Government,school communities and young people.
- Specialist and high-quality advice: Provide timely, high quality, authoritative strategic, tactical, and operational advice to support the development and implementation of Road Safety Education strategy, goals, and action plans.
- Partnering and Co-creation: This role has an emphasis on working collaboratively with school communities and has an area of focus on engaging young people as the key beneficiary of road safety education, systems and services.

**Key Selection Criteria**
- Stakeholder Management (Accomplished) - Identifies issues in common for one or more clients or stakeholders and uses them to build mutually beneficial partnerships; Identifies and responds to stakeholder’s underlying needs; Uses understanding of the stakeholder’s organisational context to ensure outcomes are achieved.
- Project Delivery (Applied) - Defines tasks to be delivered to meet agreed outcomes; Coordinates and guides others in the execution of work activities; Monitors progress of tasks against plans and takes corrective action when required.
- Lead and navigate change (Applied) - Coordinates change initiatives, providing clear guidance through coaching and supporting others in adopting change. Identifies barriers to change and works with others to develop and implement relevant change strategies.
- Develop capability (Applied) - Actively seeks to improve others’ skills and talents by providing knowledge, constructive feedback, coaching and learning opportunities; Consistently develops team capability; Recognise and develop potential in others.

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Mandatory**
- A tertiary qualification in Education
- Experience working in a school-based setting.
- Experience in the design and delivery of school-based programs and curriculum development.

**Desirable**
- Experience working with road safety initiatives.
- Experience in co-design or co-creating approaches with young people.
- Experience in project management.

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture

**Cultural Values**

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

**How to Apply