Assistant Manager, Operations

• Utilise your expertise to provide strategic advice and leadership on operational and technical issues.
• Ongoing, Full Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team.
• VPS Grade 5: $113,022 - $136,747 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Assistant Manager, Operations to provide a critical role within the Sentence Calculation and Warrant Administration Unit.

About the Business Unit

Corrections Victoria is responsible for the direction, management and operation of Victoria's corrections system, which incorporates prisons and Community Correctional Services. As a service agency within the Department of Justice and Community Safety, Corrections Victoria develops and implements 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.

Corrections Victoria manages Community Correctional Services locations across the state and is responsible for managing Victoria's eleven public prisons and overseeing the contracts relating to the management of three privately operated prisons. In doing so, Corrections Victoria delivers a safe and secure corrections system that actively engages offenders and the community to promote positive behaviour change.

The Sentence Calculation and Warrant Administration (SCWA) Unit within the Sentence Management Division is responsible for processing of court orders, prisoner discharges and sentence calculation to ensure that prisoners are appropriately and accurately held or released in accordance with legislative requirements. The SCWA Unit is also responsible for coordinating core processes that support the attendance of prisoners at court in a timely manner.

About the Role

The Assistant Manager Operations is responsible for ensuring the ongoing integrity and quality of SCWA operations in accordance with legislative and organisational priorities and is responsible for maintaining staff rosters and other imperatives to ensure the smooth operations of the unit. The Assistant Manager Operations is also responsible for proactively driving, informing and implementing system and operational enhancements with a focus on innovation and best practice.

SCWA operates shifts on a roster basis, with coverage from 8am to 7pm, Monday to Friday, and this role will be required to be on stand-by for any urgent issues that emerge outside core business hours.

As the Assistant Manager, Operations, some of your duties will include:

• Managing the operations of the SCWA Unit to ensure administration of warrants and sentence calculation processes are consistent with the relevant legislative, policy and operational frameworks.
• Leading the implementation of effective and efficient business processes to ensure compliance with legislative obligations across and large operational team.
• Driving ongoing service improvement and best practice operations.

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:

• A background in sentence calculation and warrant administration would be highly regarded.

Qualifications

• There are no mandatory qualifications for this role however a background in sentence calculation and administration of warrants is highly desirable.

How to Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

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.