Assessor

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

**Salary**: $97,955 - $111,142

**Grade**:VPS 4

**Occupation**:Community services

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

**Reference**:VG/DJCS/PRVC/1883822

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?
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- **Utilise your Assessor expertise to provide support and advice to Victims of Crime Financial Assistance Scheme**:

- **Ongoing, Full-Time Opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**:

- ** VPS Grade 4: $97,955 - $111,142 plus superannuation.**
- The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) is seeking an Assessor to provide a critical role within Police Racing Victims and Coord

**About the Business Unit**
- The FAS is highly anticipated by victims and stakeholders and represents a major leap forward in the Victorian Government's response to victims of crime. Established under the Victims of Crime (Financial Assistance Scheme) Act 2022 (the Act) the FAS will provide financial assistance through a simple and easy to navigate process that is fair, sensitive, and responsive to victims' needs. It will acknowledge harm done and be trauma informed, inclusive and culturally safe.

**About the Role**
- Some of your duties will include:

- 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:
**Technical Expertise**
- Experience working with victims of family violence, sexual assault, and victims of crime more broadly and an understanding of the systemic barriers faced by marginalised communities in the justice system.
- Commitment to actively pursuing a culturally safe workplace and organisation and improved outcomes for Aboriginal people, aligned with the principle of self-determination.
- Knowledge of risk factors for family violence and the Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework

**Qualifications**
- A relevant qualification and/or experience in community services, social work, criminology, psychology, victim services and/or family violence is highly desirable

**Applications close 23rd September 11:59pm**

**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 Tuesday 23 September 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 9 September 2025