Regional Development Officer

**Regional Development Officer**
- _Salary: _$97,955 - $111,142 _(Plus Superannuation)_
- _Fixed Term position to 9 October 2026_
- _Usual hours of work: Full time (flexibility may be available)_
- _Usual work location: 703-709 Raglan Parade, Warrnambool VIC 3280 (flexibility may be available) _

**The Role**

This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong organisational and communication skills, experience in providing project support on economic development initiatives and experience developing effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

**Key accountabilities include**:

- Support integrated investment in place by understanding and liaising with key internal and external stakeholders and partners by developing and maintaining relationships and networks with Federal, State and local government, community organisations, business, and industry.
- Support investment attraction, economic development, and the delivery of a range of DJSIR/RDV industry and recovery initiatives across the region, utilising commercial acumen and a sound understanding of regional economies, workforce, geography, stakeholders and transport links to identify, leverage and/ or create regional development opportunities, in collaboration with the regional team.
- Support a portfolio of stakeholders through promoting, delivering and managing a range of development initiatives for community and businesses within the region including identifying and delivering new investment initiatives in response to leads from business intelligence and analytics insights, community, industry and other internal and external stakeholders in alignment with investment KPIs.
- Support the program objectives by maintaining links with program areas including facilitating grant and milestone management activities and monitoring, managing and reviewing performance of grant recipients and supporting cohesive grant delivery within the group.
- Contribute to the delivery of a range of government funding programs and initiatives across the region and maintain strategic links with relevant program areas.
- Undertake routine research and analysis and provide project support to the broader RDV Regional team. Prepare high quality, well researched correspondence, reports, submissions, presentations and briefings that are clear and concise within agreed timeframes and suitable for its intended audience.

**The Team**

The position of Regional Development Officer will work across Barwon South West region, which sits within the Regional Development Victoria group.

Regional Development Victoria group works with businesses, communities and across government to deliver economic growth, create jobs, build resilience, and support economic recovery in our regions. We have a strong role in activating networks; building partnerships; realising outcomes that boost local economic and community resilience; and bringing the lived experience of communities into government decision making. In delivering our portfolio priorities, we work closely with parts of government given the many synergies and linkages with other priorities across government.

**About You**

To be successful in this role you will have the following skills and experience:

- **Project Management**: Project management, business development and account management experience with experience producing project plans where objectives are clearly defined; experience communicating with and supporting project team members, ensuring project objectives are met by anticipating and managing potential and emerging issues.
- **Stakeholder Management**: Takes concrete steps to add value for the stakeholder; links people with other areas (as appropriate), monitors client and stakeholder satisfaction; constructively deals with stakeholder issues.
- **Problem Solving**: Seeks all relevant information for problem-solving; investigates and probes for the facts; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems.
- **Conceptual and Analytical Ability**: Deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.

**Further Information**

For a confidential discussion, please contact Seona Taylor, Manager, Regional Development, Great South Coast on 0409 144 675.

The department is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation. We have zero tolerance of child abuse and are committed to taking the necessary steps to protect children from harm by adopting a preventative, proactive and participatory approach to child safety in accordance with the Child Safe Standards.

**How to Apply**

**Applications close at 23:59pm on Thursday, 24 July 2025.