Assistant Manager Aboriginal Policy and Strategic Support

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: $113,022 - $136,747

**Grade**:VPS 5

**Occupation**:Policy

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:VG/8728JULY

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?
- **Leads policy development, governance, coordination and strategic planning functions in a complex operating environment**:

- ** Support Aboriginal organisations delivering justice programs through contract management and working groups**:

- ** Ongoing full-time -**VPS Grade 5: $113,022 - $136,747 plus superannuation**.**
- The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) is** seeking an** **Assistant Manager, Aboriginal Policy and Strategic Support** to fill a vital role within the Aboriginal Operations Strategic Support team within the Workforce and Aboriginal Outcomes division.

**_ “This is a prioritised role for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, who will be given priority consideration as per the special measures provision of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010”._**

**About the Business Unit**
- Corrections Victoria operates Victoria's adult prison system, seeking to provide safe and secure containment for people in custody and an environment and programs and services that support rehabilitation. Corrections Victoria runs 11 public prisons, one transition centre, and oversees privately operated prisons. Corrections Victoria provides 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.
- Workforce and Aboriginal Outcomes leads the design, development, implementation and monitoring of Corrections Victoria policies, programs and services aimed at reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal people within the Victorian correctional system and manage initiatives related to the Safer prisons, Safer People, Safer Communities reform agenda. The division is made up of three teams, Cultural Review and Workforce Strategy, Naalamba Ganbu and Nerrlinggu Yilam and Aboriginal Operational Strategic Supports.

**About the role**:

- The Assistant Manager, Aboriginal Policy and Strategic Support sits within the Aboriginal Operational Strategic Supports team which is responsible for policy, contracts and procurement, governance and secretariat functions and planning and reporting for Aboriginal programs and services.
- As the Assistant Manager Aboriginal Policy and Strategic Support, you will develop and monitor policies, be responsible for strategic planning, program monitoring and reporting and providing high-level strategic advice and complex reports to executive management and Ministers. You will have oversight of a number of program support functions including contracts and procurement, governance, data collation and analysis as well as secretariat and reporting responsibilities.
- You will liaise with multiple internal and external stakeholders including Aboriginal Justice Caucus (AJC) and Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committees (RAJACs) as a key stakeholder in relation to policy development and programs and services reporting.

**Some of your responsibilities will include**:

- Lead the development of policies, guidelines and processes relating to people in custody.
- Lead the development of business and strategic planning processes for the Workforce and Aboriginal Outcomes division.
- Oversee the development and review of programs and other support services for Aboriginal people in custody including consultation and reporting functions.
- Support Aboriginal organisations delivering justice programs through contract management and working groups to achieve better outcomes for Aboriginal people in custody and transitions back to community.
- Promote and seek endorsement of policy and program development and implementation through the Aboriginal Justice Forum (AJF), RAJACs, project working groups and committees.

**About you**
- To be successful in this role, you