Program Officer
4 days ago
**About the Department**
The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.
The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.
**About the Division**
The Employee Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion Division (ESWID) is committed to the Department's vision to create healthy and safe working and learning environments for Department employees to thrive and succeed.
ESWID performs its functions through five branches that span prevention, response and recovery, as well as strategy, advice and support. These teams adopt a holistic approach for supporting the health, safety and wellbeing of our workforce across schools, central and regional offices. This includes Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Workers' Compensation policy advice and support, for both physical and psychosocial wellbeing. The objectives of the Division are to:
- promote positive wellbeing in learning and working environments
- prevent against known and expected risks to health, safety and wellbeing
- respond swiftly and effectively to manage potential issues as they emerge and prevent injuries
- support employees to recover from injury and illness, and return to work.
**About the Role**
The aim of the Workplace Psychosocial Service Team is to provide expert specialist advice and support to schools to identify, assess and manage psychological hazards and to comply with current and future OHS requirements to prevent and respond to mental injury. The team also plays a lead role in developing policy advice and resources.
Working as part of the team, the Program Officer, Workplace Psychosocial Service will assist in policy development on workplace psychosocial hazards. This role contributes towards the effective delivery of programs and initiatives by providing guidance and strategic support.
The Program Officer will liaise with the central Occupational Health and Safety Services teams and the regional areas and will provide operational support to the team of frontline officers. The Program Officer will also support the development of resources to assist in identifying and managing workplace psychological hazards as well as supporting the contract management for the Workplace Psychosocial Safety Service program.
The position will report to the Manager, Workplace Psychosocial Service.
**Attributes**
The required capabilities for the role are set out in the position description (see attachment).
**Qualifications and Experience**
Desirable: Relevant tertiary qualification in project or program management, education or a related field.
**Further Information**
**Applicants are asked to provide a statement of no more than two pages against the Key Selection Criteria including addressing the essential qualifications and experience listed.**
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
**Applications close 11:59pm on Sunday 4th May 2025.
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