Operations Manager

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:$107,737 - $131,457

**Grade**:Cog4

**Occupation**: Prison and Corrective Services

**Location**: Geelong

**Reference**: VG/BU-OPSMAN25

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?
- ** Manage high level, day-to-day operational needs of a prison.**:

- **Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity.**:

- **Cog Grade 4: $107,737 - $131,457 plus superannuation.**

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an **Operations Manager** to provide a critical role at HM Barwon Prison.

**About the Business Unit**

HM Prison Barwon is a maximum-security prison located 6km north-west of Lara, 20km from the centre of Geelong and about 70km from Melbourne and is part of the Barwon South-West Regional structure. It is Victoria's major maximum-security prison for sentenced male prisoners. The prison officially opened in January 1990 and currently houses up to 416 men in custody, including high security, long term management, protection (including specialist protection), general mainstream (maximum security) and medium security prisoners.

**About the Role**

The Operations Manager will be responsible for managing a team of custodial and non-custodial officers delivering a range of correctional services for which the incumbent will require superior leadership skills. A good understanding of contemporary prisoner management and offender services practices are needed to ensure that prisoners are managed, and programs are provided consistent with Corrections Victoria's policies, procedures, and priorities.

This role will also be responsible for overseeing the fruition of the prison's ‘Cultural Diversity Action Plan'. The department's Cultural Diversity Plan Framework 2019-22 aims to ensure that the department's key services are accessible to individuals and communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The plan builds on work undertaken through the previous cultural diversity plans.

Some of your duties will include:

- Provide leadership to staff, promoting the prison's vision and managing staff in ways that reflect that vision.
- Develop, manage, and ensure the quality of the delivery of custodial processes including offender management, movement control, operation of security equipment, reception and discharge, escorts, visitors and visits, urinalysis, searching, security procedures, disciplinary issues and hearings and Review and Assessment.
- Ensure delivery of custodial services and integrate this delivery with education, industry, clinical services and good lives reintegration service.

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:

- Demonstrated commitment to working with staff, prisoners and other service providers in the delivery of an integrated, whole of prison program approach to reducing re-offending.
- Demonstrated experience and skill in areas relevant to correctional delivery, offender management and/or offender treatment.

**Qualifications/requirements**
- The successful applicant will be required to complete Prison Officer Pre-Service Training on commencement if not previously completed.

**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.

Applications close Wednesday 25 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 11 June 2025