Review Officer

**Contribute to complex prison reviews and investigations.**:

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

- **VPS Grade 4: $97,955 - $111,142 plus superannuation.**

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Review Officer to provide a critical role at/within Compliance and Reviews System Performance Branch

**About the Business Unit**

The System Performance Branch in Custodial Operations comprises three teams, which are: Operational Assurance, Compliance and Reviews; Continuous Improvement; and Statewide Operational Support. The branch provides authoritative, strategic, operational and policy advice, and briefing papers on a range of correctional issues to senior correctional management and is responsible for a range of work primarily across prisons. Its responsibilities include state-wide oversight of A Safer Places to Work, a range of central functions, including operational policy development, review and amendment, convening and participating in state-wide managers' meetings, performance monitoring and reporting, incident reporting, responding to family violence information sharing requests, oversight of internal and external reviews and investigations, coordination of Corrections Victoria's responses to coronial matters and litigation, auditing, correspondence, prison outreach and implementation support and general advice to prisons and other departmental staff and internal and external stakeholders.

**About the Role**

The Reviews Officer reports to the Senior Review Officer and will assist in a range of complex reviews and investigations across the prison system. In addition, in this role, you will coordinate and lead a range of other works and projects to support the System Performance Branch and prisons, including (but not limited to) the nicotine replacement therapy program, the annual prisoner pay review, allocated correspondence.

Some of your duties will include:

- Manage the nicotine replacement therapy program. This involves managing the contract for the supply of goods; budget and invoice management; regular liaison with prison staff to ensure supplies are maintained; liaison with external suppliers; ensuring supporting policies are updated and maintained.
- Conducting the annual prisoner pay review and preparing the brief for the Secretary of the Department.
- Support the Senior Review Officer in managing prison-related reviews and investigations. This includes tracking the implementation of review recommendations, participating in reviews, preparing responses to senior department staff and key stakeholders; preparing the monthly restitution report, analysing data to identify emerging issues and trends, and conducting audits to better understand operational performance.

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:

- Excellent knowledge and understanding of CV's prison operations, policies and procedures

**Qualifications/requirements**
- There are no mandatory qualifications for this role; however a tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline would be highly 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.