Business Support Officer

About the Community Safety Building Authority
The Community Safety Building Authority (CSBA) within the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS) designs, procures, builds and upgrades the infrastructure needed to keep communities safe.
CSBA provides end-to-end project development, management and delivery of Victoria's new prisons, youth justice centres, court and custody facilities, emergency services facilities and public safety features such as pedestrian walkway bollards and CCTV networks. As well as delivering new infrastructure CSBA modernises, expands and upgrades existing facilities.
CSBA has a highly skilled workforce of experienced professionals from across the public and private sectors that support and deliver the capital projects managed by CSBA. The CSBA team includes specialists in community safety infrastructure, project management, health and safety, engineering, cost management, commercial management, planning and design.
About the Role - Business Support Officer, Commercial & Legal
This is a new role created to support all functions of the Commercial & Legal team. The Commercial & Legal team provides high quality commercial and legal advice and services to support the CSBA Project Streams, including Major Projects and Program Delivery.
Reporting to the Director, Commercial & Legal and working closely with the Executive Director, Commercial & Legal, the Business Support Officer will support the day to day activities of the Commercial & Legal team and will be provided opportunities to develop by working side by side with the practising lawyers in the team to develop knowledge and experience in working with legal documents and contract management. The Business Support Officer will be encouraged to assist in the development of Commercial & Legal processes and to help the team work cohesively and efficiently.

**The key duties of the Business Support Officer include**:

- Providing administrative support to the Commercial and Legal team, such as organising meetings, managing records, correspondence and templates;
- Developing, implementing and maintaining administration systems with scope to innovate and lead process development;
- Assisting the team to managing internal and external relationships and workflow for the support to all areas of the CSBA business;
To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
About you
- Administration relevant experience including knowledge of Microsoft Office and familiarity with document management systems.
- Experience in the legal or construction fields will be considered favourably but is not essential.
- Public sector experience is highly desirable with an understanding of the processes of government.
- Experience working with a variety of people of all experience levels.
- A desire to learn and develop and contribute positively in a team environment

Why work for us?
Employees at CSBA have access to a wide variety of opportunities, with an extensive range of career and capability development programs designed to develop our teams. We want you to grow and develop with us. We want your work to provide you with a strong sense of purpose and achievement.
We are committed to providing you with a supportive and inclusive culture and to supporting your work-life balance. Our people can take advantage of flexible working arrangements such as flexible hours, compressed working hours, working from home and additional purchased leave, leave at half-pay or leave without pay.
As part of the DJCS, CSBA has one of the most progressive health and wellbeing programs in the industry. We recognise that our people are critical to our ability to successfully deliver our projects and we take a holistic approach to engaging and retaining our people. You can access free professional advice and support to empower you to deal with a wide range of professional and personal issues. This includes career and personal development, legal issues, nutrition and lifestyle, mental health issues and relationship issues. You can also access discounted private health insurance, fitness classes and gym memberships, and excellent bicycle facilities.
How to apply

**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.
Prior to commencement of employment with the department you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19.
Upon commencement of employment with the department you will be required to provide evidence that you have an up-to-date vaccination status within the timelines specified by the department into the DJCS Service