Policy Advisor

**About the Department**

The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

**About the Victorian School Building Authority**

The Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) is part of the Department of Education. Established in 2016, it oversees Victoria's largest school building program since the state introduced free public education in the 1870s.

The VSBA upgrades and expands existing schools and plans, designs and builds new schools to meet enrolment demand. We also support schools to maintain their buildings and grounds by offering expert advice and coordinating maintenance programs and grants.

With Victoria recently introducing two years of funded kindergarten, the VSBA is also working with the early childhood sector on a massive kindergarten construction program.

**About the Division**
- based programs. The Division also plans and co-ordinates delivery of new early childhood facilities and support for the wider early childhood sector to build, improve and upgrade infrastructure through a number of grants programs, including programs which provide funding to make kindergartens for inclusive for children of all abilities.

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Manager, Sector Partnerships 2, the position will work closely and collaboratively as part of a team responsible for the implementation of the infrastructure component of the Best Start, Best Life reform, particularly the Building Blocks Partnerships (BBPs) stream of work.

The Project Officer will bring strong stakeholder and strategic systems improvement experience to support a collaborative team that works closely with the early childhood sector to respond to infrastructure demand created by the Best Start, Best Life reforms.

The key accountabilities and skills for the Program Advisor will be to:

- Maintain accurate records and tracking products to support planning and reporting practices across the team, including monitoring and entering complex financial information into databases.
- Work with relevant Senior Project Officers and the Manager on funding and data for the BBP program.
- Support continuous improvement efforts in data and administrative management to ensure compliance with internal process requirements.
- Support the presentations of options to inform policy and planning exercises, including by outlining pros, cons and limitations of particular approaches.
- Draft Ministerial briefs, executive summaries, and meeting minutes.
- Liaise with VSBA Communications to ensure public-facing BBP documents are uploaded to DE/VSBA websites.
- Program planning and provision of specialist advice to support development of forecast projects.
- Discrete tasks to support the Three-Year-old Kindergarten and Pre-Prep reforms.

All VSBA staff have a shared responsibility to meet the same service standards outlined in the VSBA Customer Service Charter. Our goal is to make every interaction with the VSBA a positive one for our customers, colleagues and key partners regardless of our individual role or team.

**Attributes**

**Desirable**Qualifications and Experience**
- Desirable : Relevant tertiary qualification**

**Further Information**

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

**Applications close 11:59pm on 16-FEB-2025.