Review Support Officer

**Utilise your Administrative expertise to provide support and advice to the Integrity and Reviews branch**:

- **An Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**:

- **VPS Grade 3: $79,122 - $96,073 plus superannuation.**

**About the Business Unit**:
Integrity, Regulation and Legal Services provides legal, policy, integrity and assurance expertise to the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS) and Justice Ministers. Integrity and Reviews provides integrity and assurance expertise and the DJCS staff supporting the operation of the Post Sentence Authority and the Inspector-General for Emergency Management.

The Justice Assurance and Review Office (JARO) assists the Secretary to ensure that adult prisons and youth justice facilities are safe, secure and humane. It provides high-quality advice on areas of risk and opportunities for improvement in corrections and youth justice. JARO's key activities include:

- reviewing all deaths in adult prisons and youth justice facilities
- reviewing select deaths of offenders in the community
- assessing and reviewing serious and significant incidents such as assaults, riots and escapes from custody
- conducting thematic reviews and targeted analysis of issues posing systemic risks
- monitoring and assessing serious incidents that affect the performance of the systems, including youth justice precincts, youth justice community services, prisons, Community Correctional Services and prisoner transportation
- administering the Independent Prison Visitor Scheme on behalf of the Minister for Corrections.

**About the Role**:
The Review Support Officer reports to the Manager, Reviews.

Some of your duties will include:

- Coordinating and tracking all outgoing information requests, stakeholder notifications and other administrative duties as required - this includes monitoring the JARO inbox and liaising with stakeholders such as Corrections Victoria, Youth Justice, Community Correctional Services, Justice Health and the Coroners Court of Victoria
- Preparing, collating and updating information relevant to JARO assessment and review activities, including but not limited to death reviews, reviews of major incidents in the youth justice and corrections systems and thematic reviews
- Developing an understanding of risk-based methodologies and the JARO Risk Assessment Framework to identify risks to, and improvements in, the youth justice and corrections systems.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

**About You**:

- Experience working in the criminal justice system is desirable, in particular youth justice and/or corrections.
- Experience in the use of Microsoft Office Suite and information management systems.
- Qualifications/Requirements_
- No mandatory qualifications, however completion of a recognised and relevant tertiary qualification is highly 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.