Correctional Manager, Business Services

Southern Queensland Correctional Centre is a women's facility located in Spring Creek, approximately 17 kms from the township of Gatton in the Lockyer Valley. The centre provides high security secure placement accommodation for sentenced and remand women that are classified as high or low security.
Women who enter the criminal justice system often come from lives characterised by sexual, emotional and physical abuse, domestic and family violence, substance addiction and mental health problems. QCS provides a gender-responsive, trauma-informed approach to managing women with the goal of offering an opportunity to truly rehabilitate and escape the cycle that led to crime.
It is important to recognise that to change a woman, is to change a generation.
Qualifications, professional registration, conditions and other requirements:

- There are no mandatory qualifications for this position however formal qualifications in business and/or accounting (or a related discipline) would be highly regarded.

**The essential requirements for this role are**:

- Knowledge, expertise and skill in financial management systems, legislation, policies and procedures and the capacity to interpret such policies and provide authoritative advice to centre management.
- Demonstrated knowledge of complex financial modelling including budget forecasting and performance analysis.
- High level skills in the analysis of data, the understanding of business systems and processes and in the provision of budget and activity reporting to meet the needs of the centre.
- Risk assessment and management identification and analysis.
- High level written and oral communication skills together with interpersonal skills, including the proven ability to negotiate to achieve difficult and conflicting objectives and liaise, consult and negotiate with senior staff and other key stakeholders to resolve significant resource issues.
- Staff management skills and experience including knowledge of and demonstrated ability to implement contemporary human resource management practices.
- Highly developed skills in resource management, including strong ability in the areas of managing resources, budget management, objective setting and monitoring, coaching and performance feedback.
- Understanding of the financial pressures and constraints that impact service delivery and the capacity to recommend courses of action which achieve optimal outcomes within those constraints.

**In this role you will**:

- Provide high level business management analysis and advice to centre management enabling them to deliver quality, cost effective services that are consistent with Agency strategic and operational objectives.
- Develop and maintain appropriate reporting systems and processes to facilitate effective performance, financial and resource management.
- Report and monitor centre performance against key indicators, ensuring that effective internal controls and risk management processes are in place for the centre so as to provide a high level of assurance to centre management on the integrity of reported information.
- Participate in the development and monitor the progress of annual efficiency savings initiatives for the centre.
- Provide financial and activity-based information and respond to requests for information by appropriately gathering and sourcing information for analysis, completing analysis (including variance analysis), providing technical advice and producing reports; and
- Other duties as further detailed in the role description.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.