Learning and Capability Consultant

**Use your expertise in MARAM training and practice to deliver engaging, trauma informed MARAMIS training to prescribed internal DJCS staff and staff in DJCS-funded agencies**:

- **Provide authoritative family violence practice advice to inform training content, policies, and broader workforce development strategies**:

- **VPS 5.1 position: $113,022 to $**124,885** **on a fixed-term contract to 30 June 2027**:

- **Two positions** **are available at this level in the team.**

**About the Business Unit**:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) delivers a trusted justice and community safety system that works to build a just, safe and resilient Victoria. The department has ongoing obligations under the _Family Violence Protection Act 2008 _(Act)to align to the MARAM Framework, implement the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme and Child Information Sharing Scheme, and is committed to providing best practice in family violence prevention, identification and response.

People, Safety, Culture and Communications (PSCC) lead the department's strategic people functions and ensure our workforce has the right skills and capabilities, culture and working environment to achieve its strategic priorities.

The Family Violence Learning and Capability team sits within the Learning and Capability function of PSCC. It builds the workforce capabilities of the department and prescribed funded agencies to identify and respond to family violence by developing and delivering customised MARAM training, according to the specific context of the workforce and applicable reforms.

**About the Role**:
As a Consultant in the Family Violence Learning and Capability team, you will be responsible for driving family violence capability uplift aligned to the MARAM Framework. You will hold a senior position and work alongside VPS 4 and VPS 5 colleagues in the team. You will be expected to also build and maintain strategic partnerships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

You will report to the team manager and be involved in developing and delivering MARAM family violence training at the Foundational, Identification and Intermediate level. Expert facilitation skills and a strong understanding of the MARAM framework are required. You will use this to also develop engaging, practice-focused learning resources that support retention of key concepts and promote sustained practice change following training delivery.

Some of your duties will include:

- Driving a departmental culture of MARAM learning and capability uplift through delivering a substantial volume of training both in person and remotely
- Embedding evaluation and feedback mechanisms into training delivery, to ensure this evidence guides continuous improvement of materials to meet business needs
- Supporting strategic leadership activities in the team and the Learning and Capability function of PSCC more broadly, including through anticipating risks to training delivery, developing solutions, and leading strategic communication activities.

**About You**:

- In-depth operational knowledge and understanding of the MARAM Framework including intersectional practice principles, a demonstrated ability deliver practical, skills-based training that supports learner development and sustained capability uplift
- Highly-developed understanding of family violence dynamics, with direct experience working with victim survivors and/or perpetrators, and a strong knowledge of best practice responses across justice and community settings
- A wealth of experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, to review, enhance, and co-develop training materials and resources that reflect current policy, practice reforms, and evolving needs of diverse learner groups.
- Qualifications/Requirements:_
- A relevant tertiary qualification is required: social work, criminology, psychology, or a related discipline. Significant professional experience may be considered in lieu of this
- A Certificate IV in work-place training and assessment is highly desirable
- Travel is essential for this role and a driver's licence is required.

**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.