Project Officer

**VPSG3 - Multiple Vacancies**

**Fixed Term - Full Time until 1st June 2026**

**About the Department**

The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

**About the Victorian School Building Authority**

The Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) is part of the Department of Education. Established in 2016, it oversees Victoria's largest school building program since the state introduced free public education in the 1870s.

The VSBA upgrades and expands existing schools and plans, designs and builds new schools to meet enrolment demand. We also support schools to maintain their buildings and grounds by offering expert advice and coordinating maintenance programs and grants.

With Victoria recently introducing two years of funded kindergarten, the VSBA is also working with the early childhood sector on a massive kindergarten construction program.

**About the Division**

The Corporate Division provides corporate support to all VSBA teams and fulfills an important assurance and oversight role. They guide VSBA to achieve strategic objectives and ensure decision-making is transparent and accountable.

The division also coordinates communication and consultation with local communities about their school building projects. They develop graphic design and video content, manage our social media channels, lead organisational customer service reform, distribute our e-newsletters and organise ministerial and other events for our projects. The Division also leads the organisational customer service reform and uplift program.

**About the Role**

This role sits within the Standards, Training, and Assurance (STA) unit of the Systems and Oversight Branch.

The Project Officer as part of the STA unit will play an important role in:

- Procurement - maintaining and enhancing the VSBA's suite of procurement documentation and templates as well as providing construction procurement advice to VSBA staff;
- Standards & Frameworks - support regular updates to the standards & frameworks that guide project/program delivery in the VSBA;
- Assurance - support monitoring risks via the independent assurance program.

The key accountabilities for the Project Officer are to:

- identify, coordinate and produce reporting and written communication which supports effective decision-making by VSBA Executive, the Department and Government;
- support reporting for compliance activities to VSBA governance committees;
- work collaboratively across the VSBA and broader Department to manage information and processes across the portfolio, acting as a key point of contact for multiple teams and stakeholders;
- contribute to continuous improvements for delivery through automation and process improvement.

All VSBA staff have a shared responsibility to meet the same service standards outlined in the _VSBA Customer Service Charter_. Our goal is to make every interaction with the VSBA a positive one for our customers, colleagues and key partners regardless of our individual role or team.

**Attributes**

**Desirable**Qualifications and Experience**
- Desirable: demonstrated experience in similar role within government

**Further Information**

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

**Applications close 11:59pm on 7th January 2025.