Senior Policy

1 month ago

North Geelong, Australia WorkSafe Victoria Full time

 

Senior Policy & Legislation Advisor

  • $ 142,374 per annum + Superannuation
  • Full Time, Fixed term to 4 July 2025
  • Based at Geelong Headquarters (Hybrid)

About the role

The Senior Policy & Legislative Services Advisor role is to review, analyse, advise and develop policy and strategy in a range of contexts including strategic, economic, legislative, regulatory and operational. The Senior Strategic Policy & Legislative Services Advisor formulates effective legislative and statutory solutions, provides authoritative policy advice to WorkSafe, and assess and responds to emerging trends and challenges in occupational health and safety and workers compensation.

The role has an important part to play in ensuring WorkSafe continues its work towards actively preventing workplace injury and illness from occurring.  The Senior Policy & Legislative Services Advisor will work across a broad range of subject matter including occupational health and safety and workers compensation and will work in a variety of settings including national, government and stakeholder forums.

Please ensure you take a look at the Position Description here for additional information on accountabilities for this role.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate a collaborative work style, an ability to build strong relationships with key Stakeholders and have an ability to anticipate and manage risks.  You will have advanced written communication skills including the ability to explain complex or technical issues clearly and in a way that can easily be understood by a range of audiences.  You will also possess:

  • Knowledge of OHS and/or compensation law or other relevant legislation and understanding of development of legislation and related parliamentary process
  • Experience in providing high level authoritative advice on complex legal and policy issues to senior officers, Government departments and Ministers within limited time constraints
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with experience facilitating cross-organisational approaches to problem solving and a constructive approach to managing conflict
  • Experience in occupational health and safety, workers compensation or other regulatory environments
  • An understanding of the regulations writing process and drafting instructions for development of legislation.
  • An understanding of Commonwealth-State relations

Working with Us

At WorkSafe, we aspire for every employee to feel connected, safe and valued in their team, for teams to feel valued in the workplace, and for WorkSafe to be valued in the community.

We believe that a diverse workforce is the key to delivering the best outcomes for the Victorian community and strongly encourage applications from all people, including First Nations people and people with disability, diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, sexualities and genders. 

What’s next?

Applications close at 11:00pm on Thursday 6th June 2024.  Click the link to apply, and join us in making a difference to Victorian lives.

Only people with the right to work in Australia may apply for this position. You may be required to undergo a National Police Check (and/or Medical Assessment) as part of the recruitment process.

Candidate screening may take place prior to the advertisement closing, so get your application in.

For further enquiries please contact Natasha Zaluski via email Natasha_zaluski@worksafe.vic.gov.au

About us

WorkSafe's Strategy has our core purpose front of mind – reducing workplace harm and improving outcomes for injured workers. We don’t shy away from the importance of our purpose to the Victorian community, that’s why we have a stated ambition to be world leading.

We want Victoria to be the safest place to work in Australia and one of the safest in the world; and we aspire to be a world leader in return to work after a workplace injury.

WorkSafe are striving to build a diverse workforce that reflects the Victorian community we serve.

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