Contract Support Officer

An exciting opportunity within the Corrections and Justice Services Group, Department of Justice and Community Safety
- VPSG 3 Classification (Salary Range $72,751 - $88,336)
- One (1) ongoing, full-time opportunity available.

About Us
Corrections Victoria (CV) operates Victoria's adult corrections system, including Community Correctional Services across more than 50 locations, and manages 11 public prisons and oversees three privately operated prisons. It ensures prisoners are safely and securely contained and aims to rehabilitate offenders by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.
Contracts and Infrastructure are responsible for contract management, commercial oversight and advisory services, as well as the effective management and maintenance of all CV's prisons and related infrastructure. This includes the development and implementation of all required systems and policies to sustain this diverse asset portfolio. The management of major contracts including private prisons, oversight of major contracts and contract management of a significant number of the group's contracts are a core function of the Branch. It also represents the group's interest on infrastructure and construction projects to ensure the best possible outcomes for stakeholders and commercial partners. The Commercial Support team is responsible for monitoring and processing of payments against all of CV's contracted services. The team is responsible for the administration of the departments' contract management system, Zycus, on behalf of CV to maintain up to date and accurate contract data.
About the Role
The Contract Support Officer is responsible for supporting the management and monitoring of Corrections Victoria's contracted services, including raising purchase orders, processing invoices, undertaking financial reconciliations, updating systems and preparing accurate and timely reports to support decision making.

**The role of a Contract Support Officer will**:

- Monitor and process payments against CV's contracted services
- Maintain CV contracts data in the departments' contract management system, Zycus.

About You
- Demonstrated practical experience working within a strict records management environment, ideally within a government department or a comparable authorising environment
- The ability to take steps to add value for the client or stakeholder, and link people with other areas as appropriate. Also able to monitor client and stakeholder satisfaction, and constructively deal with stakeholder issues
- The ability to utilise advanced excel formulas, pivot tables and generate data charts as required
- The ability to ensure that day to day planning and work processes are in line with team/organisation strategy. Also able to identify and develop own and team objectives, and linking strategies to actions to achieve these. Able to guide others in strategic planning process
- There are no mandatory qualifications for this role, however a relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in finance or business administration is highly desirable.

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.

Prior to commencement of employment with the department you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19. Acceptable evidence includes:
COVID-19 digital certificate (available via your myGov account)

Your immunisation history statement (available via your myGov account) or

A letter from the GP who vaccinated you.