Security and Safety Officer

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Full-time

**Salary**: $79,122 - $96,073

**Grade**:VPS 3

**Occupation**:Human resources

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

**Reference**:VG/SST/JULY2025

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?
- **Utilise your experience in high volume admin or your knowledge of safety and security screening to provide support and advice to Recruitment Services**:

- ** 1x fixed-term (end date 30/6/2026) full-time administrative opportunity available within a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**
- ** VPS Grade 3: $79,122 - $96,073 plus superannuation.**

**About Recruitment Services**
- The Recruitment Services branch within People, Safety, Culture and Communications (PSCC) provides expert advice and support to the department on all recruitment related matters, including attraction, selection, redeployment and other recruitment and retention practices. Working within the department's vision for a justice and community safety system that works together to build a safer, fairer and stronger Victoria, Recruitment Services delivers consultative, progressive, innovative, fair and ethical recruitment solutions.

**About the Role**
- The Security and Safety Officer reports to the Supervisor, Security and Safety.
- Some of your duties may include:

- Coordinating the processing of criminal history and other relevant pre-employment checks for current and prospective employees for frontline and non-frontline roles, including:

- fit2Work Australian Criminal History Checks (ACIC)
- Providing high quality customer service and administrative support to internal and external stakeholders on a range of recruitment and security related matters
- Responding efficiently to enquiries received via the phone, electronically, in writing or in person in a professional, courteous manner
- Please refer to the attached position description for more information._

**About You**
- Experience in providing administrative support and customer service, ideally within a large or complex organisation, and in working with sensitive and confidential information
- Detail focus with the ability to undertake finely detailed work in a precise and accurate manner
- The ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment with high volume processing activity

**How to Apply**

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITM ENT**:

- 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 Thursday 31 July 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 26 May 2025