Prison Services Manager

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: $138,631 - $185,518

**Grade**:VPS 6

**Occupation**:Prison and corrective services

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:VG/4018-JUN25

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- **Lead the corporate services function at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in west Melbourne.**:

- ** Ongoing, full-time opportunity to join the Victorian Public Service.**:

- ** VPS Grade 6: $138,631 - $185,518 plus superannuation.**
- The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an experienced and strategic manager to lead the corporate services function within a women's correctional facility.
- In this essential role, you will manage a substantial budget, driving departmental savings targets while balancing the operational risks inherent in a correctional environment. Your leadership will ensure the efficient delivery of key services, including logistics, procurement, and compliance, all while maintaining the highest standards of safety and operational integrity.

**About the Business Unit**
- The Corrections and Justice Services (CJS) group, comprising Corrections Victoria (CV), Justice Health and Justice Services, plays an integral role in developing safer and more resilient communities and in delivering a trusted justice and community safety system.
- CV is responsible for the implementation of policies, programs and services that ensure the safe and secure containment of prisoners, and that seek to rehabilitate offenders by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.
- As part of the CJS group, the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC) is a 694-bed maximum-security facility for female individuals located within the West Metropolitan Area.

**About the Role**
- Reporting directly to the General Manager, the Prison Services Manager is responsible for leading and motivating diverse functional teams responsible for in-prison planning.
- Some of your duties will include:

- Lead and motivate diverse functional teams responsible for budget, financial management, human resources, training, stores, accounts, purchasing and prisoner services including records and property.
- Manage the effective strategic planning and delivery of corporate and business support services including playing a critical leadership role in the delivery of outcomes associated with the Cultural Review recommendations.
- Manage a significant budget for the location ensuring that key savings initiatives and strategies are developed and implemented to ensure the budget is delivered in the most effective and efficient way. This includes undertaking strategic budget and financial analysis for the location and the provision of high-level expert advice and correspondence to the General Manager.
- To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

**About you**
- To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Demonstrated experience in managing complex and diverse service functions.
- Knowledge of the Victorian Public Service Purchasing Framework and procurement.

**Qualifications/Requirements**
- Qualifications in finance or business management or human resources is desirable but not mandatory.

**How to Apply**

- Applications close Thursday 24 July 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 26 June 2025