Project Officer

**Be responsible for the effective management of technology resources for staff and persons in custody at the DPFC**:

- **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 is seeking a Project Officer - Performance and Planning to provide a critical role at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.

**About the Business Unit**

Corrections Victoria is responsible for the implementation of policies, programs and services that ensure the safe and secure containment of prisoners, and that seek to rehabilitate offenders by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.

Corrections Victoria also sets strategy, policy and standards for the management of the state's system of correctional facilities whilst also developing programs for the management and rehabilitation of prisoners and the community-based supervision of offenders.

As part of the CJS group, the DPFC is a 568-bed medium to maximum-security facility for female offenders located within the West Metropolitan Region, Department of Justice.

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Performance and Planning Manager, the Project Officer is responsible for procedural compliance activities at the DPFC, including a strong focus on data collection, analysis, reporting and system support. The Project Officer will lead the development of improvement strategies as required with a focus on service delivery.

The Project Officer will assist in the monitoring of performance and planning functions and promote a culture of performance improvement and risk management. The Project Officer will also assist in the review of policies and procedures, ensuring consultation occurs, and prepare complex correspondence and will engage in effective stakeholder management.

This position may require direct prisoner contact and may involve weekend and public holiday work, remunerated in accordance with the applicable provision of the VPS Determination.

Some of your duties will include:

- Manage the Procedural Compliance model for the DPFC.
- Undertake research and consultation to gather information, statistics and views on identified issues, providing analysis, interpretation and related reports and recommendations to the appropriate manager.
- Coordinate the review, monitoring and updating of Local Operating Procedures.
- Plan, coordinate, research, and report on a range of prison business and risk management projects.
- Liaise, research, investigate and respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, Independent Prison Visitors, legal and Information Privacy Act compliance issues.

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:

- Advanced knowledge and skills in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Demonstrated experience in data analysis.
- Demonstrated experience in or understanding of working and managing staff within a correctional environment or similar.

**Qualifications/requirements**

- A relevant tertiary qualification is desirable.

**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.