General Manager

Utilise your experience managing people, directing, overseeing, and managing daily operational activities and developing and implementing effective business strategies and programs.
- Ongoing opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service.
- COG 6: ($156,869 - $179,556) plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) is seeking a General Manager at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

About the business unit
Corrections Victoria operates Victoria's adult prison system, seeking to provide safe and secure environments that delivers programs and services supporting prisoner rehabilitation. Corrections Victoria runs 11 public prisons, one transition centre, and oversees three privately operated prisons. Corrections Victoria aims to contribute to community safety by providing best practice interventions that aim to reduce the risk of reoffending, including case management informed by sound risk assessment, offence specific and offence related programs, and transition and reintegration supports.
The Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC) is a 568-bed medium to maximum-security facility for female offenders located within the West Metropolitan Area, Department of Justice and Community Safety. Through delivering correctional services that are gender responsive and consistent with Trauma Informed Practice, DPFC plays a critical role in enabling women address the reasons for their offending and support their transition back into the community.
The General Manager of DPFC is responsible for the good order and safety of the prison and for creating and sustaining a values-based workforce culture, built on integrity, professional excellence, and teamwork. The General Manager is responsible for creating a safe, supportive and inclusive culture and delivering a structured day in which prisoners are constructively engaged and challenged through effective case management practices to address their individual risks and needs in order to promote the best prospects of rehabilitation.

About the role
Reporting to the Assistant Commissioner, Custodial Operations, the General Manager leads and manages the delivery of correctional services at the prison to achieve the safe custody, welfare and rehabilitation of prisoners in accordance with the policies and standards set out by the Commissioner, Corrections Victoria in the Commissioners Requirements, Deputy Commissioner Instructions and Service Delivery Outcomes. This includes building and maintaining partnerships with key service partners including health service providers, rehabilitation services, community corrections and reintegration and transition supports to ensure an integrated approach to meeting the welfare and rehabilitation needs of prisoners.
The General Manager is responsible for driving the prison towards achieving its vision and direction in line with the Corrections Act 1986 and the Corrections Regulations 2019, identifying and responding to emerging strategic issues and developing and implementing business plans. The General Manager will be integral to driving implementation of reforms at DPFC stemming from the Independent Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System.
The General Manager leads all disciplines within the prison staffing complement to achieve business objectives and performance benchmarks.
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**:

- Extensive experience managing people, directing, overseeing, and managing daily operational activities and developing and implementing effective business strategies and programs.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse the success of whole of operational programs, strategies and initiatives including the ability to critically evaluate security and offender management issues.
- Leadership experience in a correctional or other complex operational environment, preferably in an institutional context with a complex, statutory operating framework.
- Knowledge of the Corrections Act 1986 and Corrections Regulations 2019, or ability to quickly develop such knowledge.

How to apply

**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.
At interview stage and prior to commencement of employment with the department, you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 with three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Upon commencement of employment with the department you will be required to provide evidence that you have an up-to-date vac