Program Lead, CQV Transition

Work Type: Fixed-term - Full-time

Salary: $138,631 - $185,518

Grade: VPS 6

Occupation: Projects

Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: VG/EMV524SEPTEMBER2025

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.

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.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit

We're proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?

• Utilise your Project Delivery expertise to provide support and advice to Legal Services Coord and Entity Governance
• A Fixed-Term, opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service for 6 months
• VPS Grade 6: $138,631 - $185,518 plus superannuation.

About the Business Unit:

Legal Services Coordination and Entity Governance (LSCEG) sits across two Groups - Integrity, Regulation and Legal Services (IRLS) and Courts, Civil and Criminal Law (CCCL) - and is responsible for major projects that drive and develop innovation in government legal services and entity governance. LSCEG is also responsible for the records and legacy functions, including the administration of quarantine contribution fees, that were transferred from COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV).

Program Lead CQV Transition is responsible for leading the transition and decommissioning of transferred COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV) statutory obligations in partnership with departmental work streams areas including Finances, Technology Solutions, Information and People Services, and other agencies including the Department of Health.

About the Role:

As Program Lead, you will report to the Executive Director, Legal Services Coordination and Entity Governance and lead in the acquittal of outstanding CQV obligations including the appropriate sentencing of program records and decommissioning of information systems in accordance with forthcoming authority under the Public Records Act 1974 and any other ad hoc matters, including Freedom of Information and regulator requests, government, media and public enquiries, reporting and outstanding contractual issues, including expenditure.

You will also be required to guide and oversee the Ministerial Services portion of development of the DJCS Entity and Appointments Platform, by providing expert advice to the staff member responsible.

Some of your duties will include:

• Overseeing and managing budget and reporting for all CQV-related expenditure, including submission of business cases and funding requests
• Initiating cross-disciplinary records management and information system decommissioning projects, resourcing and oversee governance and coordination to ensure that work streams are within timelines and budget, with accountabilities for information lifecycle management established ongoing
• Leading on sourcing and contract management activities with endorsements from Procurement Category Managers and deliver contract closure and transition out activities under government purchasing and contract management frameworks and departmental approval processes.

You will develop and lead the Quarantine Fee Operations delivery of forward strategy in relation to the administration of quarantine contribution fees owed to the state under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2004, including invoicing system enhancements, data governance, debt management approach, policy development and decommissioning.

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

About You:

You will be a self-driven, future-thinking and highly, collaborative problem solver, with senior experience in strategy, governance and compliance and project delivery in a complex operating environment, and a demonstrated commitment to working closely with executives and program leads across the department to ensure the highest standards of performance, integrity and coordination are achieved.

As our ideal candidate, you will possess:

• Demonstrable experience in developing and delivery of strategic initiatives that impacts or engages multi-disciplinary functional areas under statutory frameworks
• Significant and demonstrable knowledge of government decision making frameworks and public body common statutory obligations, including procurement, financial processes, information management and regulatory review
• Significant experience working within areas requiring detailed governance, experience with data classification, public records retention, and decommissioning of business units in government
• Demonstrated proficiency in using Microsoft Outlook, Planner, Project, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, SharePoint, SharePoint Lists, Excel and Word.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• A tertiary degree in legal or related policy disciplines will be highly regarded.

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 reference checks, national police checks and misconduct screening. Dependant on the role, other checks may include VicRoads checks, drivers licence checks, medical checks, Working with Children Checks, and Declaration of Private Interests (for executive and responsible officer roles).

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.

Applications close Thursday 25 September 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted

11 September 2025