Specialist Compliance Officer

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $109,730 - $132,764

Occupation: Engineering

Reference: 6373

The Land Services Group is a Group within the Department of Transport and Planning and is responsible for supporting the delivery of services and infrastructure that will help build thriving environments and communities across our state. The Group is comprised of the Office of the Deputy Secretary and Land Use Victoria.

Land Use Victoria is responsible for providing whole of Victorian Government leadership on land information, policy, assessment, and advice, to enable government to use its land more strategically and maximise public value. It is also responsible for managing the government's program for land administration and property information by providing innovative solutions for authoritative, comprehensive, and easily accessible services in land registration, property information, valuation, land surveying and geographic naming, land data management services and spatial mapping services. It performs a range of statutory and non-statutory functions. LUV also provides surveying services for major government infrastructure projects, provides all government property valuations and is responsible for all council valuations.

We’re focused on outcomes that deliver more choice, connections and confidence in our travel, ensuring the whole transport network works as one to deliver better services and outcomes.

**About the Role**
- Contribute to Land Use Victoria project initiatives; participate in business planning and implementation and make presentations to internal staff, customer forums and external stakeholders such as searchers, legal profession, conveyancers and banks.

The key skills we are looking at are:

- Electronic Conveyancing Experience
- Experience in Audit & Compliance programs.

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

**Position Outcomes**

**Key Selection Criteria -**

**KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS -**

**Innovation and Continuous Improvement -** Contributes ideas toward improving the effectiveness of own work area; Understands and delivers against standards of quality and effectiveness applicable to own area of work; Maintains quality in the face of time pressure.

**Critical Thinking and Problem Solving -** Seeks resolution of problems through policy or process guidelines; Otherwise seeks guidance by providing information and ideas relevant towards resolution of problem. Understands concepts enabling improvements in critical thinking and problem solving

**Interpersonal Skills -** Recognise and regulate one’s emotions; understands interests and emotions of others achieve best outcomes possible in an authentic manner.

**Knowledge management and business continuity -** Establish mechanisms to record and share knowledge and experience for business continuity and knowledge management.

**Project Delivery -** Defines tasks to be delivered to meet agreed outcomes; Coordinates and guides others in the execution of work activities; Monitors progress of tasks against plans and takes corrective action when required

**Communicate with Impact -** Makes a positive impression on others and comes across with credibility; Communicates orally in a manner that is clear fluent and holds the listeners’ attention; Able to deal with difficult and sensitive topics and questions.

**Personal Attributes -**

**Working collaboratively -** Cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals; Share information and acknowledge others’ efforts; Step in to help others where required.

**Self-awareness -** Recognises own emotional responses to a range of people or events, and the impact these can have on others; Recognises that problems or challenges are a normal part of working and actions can be taken to manage them.

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Desirable**
- Sound working knowledge of the Transfer of Land Act 1958, Subdivision Act 1989 and associated Acts (Surveying Act; Water Act; Property Law Act; Administration and Probate Act; Sale of Land Act; Instruments Act; Local Government Act; Evidence Act, and Privacy and Data Protection Act), the registration of dealings and plans, and the functions and procedures of Land Registry Services is highly desirable.
- Sound working knowledge of Electronic Conveyancing is highly desirable.
- Auditing or regulatory compliance experience is highly desirable.
- Experience sourcing and implementing technology solutions such as robotic process automation, large language learning models and machine learning is desirable.

**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