Incident Analyst

• Review and analyse incidents across the prison system.
• Ongoing, Full-Time Opportunity.
• COG Grade 3: $97,563 - $105,427 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Incident Analyst to provide a critical role within the System Performance Branch.

About the Business Unit

Corrections Victoria is part of the Corrections and Justice Services group in the Department of Justice and Community Safety. Corrections Victoria operates Victoria's adult custodial corrections system. Its vision is for Safer Prisons, Safer People, Safer Communities. Corrections Victoria's mission is to create a safer, smarter system with a skilled and supported workforce, that enables people in our care to make better decisions.

The System Performance Branch in Custodial Operations comprises mainly of three teams - the Litigation and Coronial Matters team, the Operations Directorate and the Monitoring, Standards and Reporting Unit. The Branch provides authoritative, strategic and policy advice, and briefing papers on a range of correctional issues to senior correctional management and is responsible for a range of work primarily across prisons. Its responsibilities include state-wide oversight of a range of central functions, including operational policy development, review and amendment, convening and participating in state-wide managers' meetings, performance monitoring and reporting, incident reporting, responding to family violence information sharing requests, oversight of internal and external reviews and investigations, coordination of CV's responses to coronial matters and litigation, auditing, correspondence, and general advice to prisons and other departmental staff and internal and external stakeholders.

About the Role

The Incident Analyst reports to the Prison Incidents Operations Manager and is responsible for monitoring and analysing incidents across the prison system.

The Incident Analyst will manage a variety of tasks including:

• consultation and liaison with prison staff and other stakeholders
• maintaining incident data in MS Excel
• coordinating the viewing, copying and retention of CCTV footage
• providing advice on incident classification, recording and trends
• conducting training across all prisons.

This position will work closely with the Operations Directorate and other business units to ensure business priorities are managed in an efficient and coordinated manner.

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:

• Knowledge and understanding of Corrections Victoria's prison operations, policies and procedures
• Demonstrated experience in maintaining databases and analysis of data to identify emerging issues and trends contributing to the identification and management of organisational risks, business improvement, policy development and achievement of performance outputs
• Proficient computer literacy skills in PIMS, Centurion, Outlook, Microsoft Excel and Access databases.

Qualifications

• Completion of the Corrections Victoria Prison Officer pre-service training
• Understanding of Offender Management Framework is 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 w