Data and Insights Specialist

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $105,479 - $127,621

Occupation: Analyst

Reference: 1213

**About the Role**

**This is a Fixed Term Position until 1 July 2026**

The Safe Local Roads and Streets Program - Data and Insights leads the delivery of data and insights for local government authorities in preparing safe local road and street network safety plans and projects. The role will also help develop systems that allow local government authorities create data and insights through a self-service function. The role requires specialised data and analytical skills as well as program management and delivery.

**To access the Position Description, please click here.**

**Position Outcomes / Accountabilities**
- Road Safety Insights and Analysis - Has successfully translated existing risk data (AusRAP/ANRAM), road infrastructure attributes, movement and place classifications, speed data and other network data to generate insights for network safety plans.
- Data literacy
- Successfully identifies appropriate data sets linking these spatially using appropriate techniques to connect data sets across the transport portfolio providing leaders and business areas with clear strategic intervention options and investment pipeline.
- Communicate with impact
- Has successfully translated the data insights and analysis and visually display data sets into simplified key messages (mapping asset state in easy forms to grasp / data histograms 2D & 3D) using Power BI and other visualisation mediums.
- Critical thinking and problem solving - working independently, has demonstrated self-verification of data use and interpretation, identifying the most appropriate valid data sets. Has collaborated with the Network Safety Plan team and broader Departmental staff to solve complex data challenges.
- Stakeholder Management - The incumbent has built strong and trusting stakeholder relationships, to achieve successful outcomes in line with the Safe System philosophy, Transport Integration Act objectives, and Movement and Place. The position has successfully built relationships to influence and negotiate outcomes
- Promote and support safe, inclusive and flexible team operations.

**Key Selection Criteria**

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Mandatory**
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications in related field
- Experience relevant to the capabilities of the role.
- Strong experience in management of data - analysis, reporting and communicating

**Desirable**
- Technical competency in spatial software (QGIS preferred, esri products, Power BI)
- Substantial stakeholder management experience within government - a sound grasp of how government works and how to access information across different government entities.

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture

**Culture Value**

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

**How to Apply**

Note: To be considered up to date vaccinated, you must have been administered COVID-19 vaccines as determined by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). DTP is requiring all staff to be Vaccinated and to have had Booster Vaccination (Triple vaccinated as a minimum) or medical evidence which confirms the individual is unable to receive a dose, of a COVID-19 vaccine due to a medical contraindication. Failure to comply with this condition of employment will impact your eligibility for employment in this position with DTP.