Procurement Adviser

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $91,418 - $103,725

Occupation: Procurement

Reference: VG/D00925JULY

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- **Ongoing, full-time role to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**:

- **Provide procurement support and advice across the CSBA for the procurement and delivery of construction contracts.**:

- **VPS4**:$90,067 - $102,192 plus superannuation**

**About the Community Safety Building Authority**

The Corporate Services and Infrastructure group oversees and leads the key public accountability requirements of the department including finance, procurement, evidence and insights, performance reporting and risk, audit and integrity. The group also manages the governance and delivery of major infrastructure through the Community Safety Building Authority (CSBA).

The CSBA was established in June 2019 and designs, procures, builds, and upgrades the infrastructure needed to keep communities safe. It provides end-to-end project development, management and delivery of Victoria's new prisons, youth justice centres, court and custody facilities, emergency services facilities and public safety features. As well as delivering new infrastructure CSBA modernises, expands, and upgrades existing facilities.

The CSBA has a highly skilled workforce of experienced professionals from across the public and private sectors that support the development, procurement and delivery oversight of major capital projects. The CSBA team includes specialists in community safety infrastructure, project management, engineering, cost management, commercial management, planning and design.

Reporting to the Procurement Manager within the Project Management Office, the Procurement Adviser advises and performs a range of compliant procurement and contract administration activities including low to high risk and varying complexity.

This includes being responsible for preparing and reviewing high level business documents including sourcing documents, briefings, correspondence, tenders, detailed reports and submissions on procurement and contract administration matters. This role ensures the timely progress of procurement and contract administration activities throughout the varied government processes, in a fast-paced environment.

**About the Role**

The Procurement Adviser will conduct and advise on procurement activities from the sourcing stages to contracting and support the PMO to build and maintain effective relationships with third party suppliers, department staff and other key stakeholders.

You will also:

- Performs and advise compliant procurement and contract administration activities, in line with the State's and department's Procurement and Contract Management Frameworks.
- Performs end-to-end procurement processes for CSBA across a range of low to high-risk activities of varied complexity.
- Managing procurement and contract data, including ongoing change management to support the procurement lifecycle.
- Providing procurement system support to whole of CSBA.
- Support the Procurement Manager to implement software upgrade, release management and new implementation initiatives.
- Administration and support of CSBA taxonomy.
- Assists with the identification, benchmarking, and evaluation of suppliers in line with approved sourcing and evaluation processes.
- Provides authoritative, compliant, and reliable procurement and contract administration advice, including the identification, analysis and resolution of emerging issues, opportunities, risks, and trends affecting value for money and compliance.
- Manages evaluation, approval, and authorisation procedures to ensure probity, security, quality document control and transparency in all procurement activities.
- Applies the appropriate procurement and commercial policies, strategies, and approach relevant to the procurement objective and ensures integrity and justification of procurement processes an