About the Department

The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

About the Victorian School Building Authority

The Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) is part of the Department of Education. Established in 2016, it oversees Victoria's largest school building program since the state introduced free public education in the 1870s. 

The VSBA upgrades and expands existing schools and plans, designs and builds new schools to meet enrolment demand. We also support schools to maintain their buildings and grounds by offering expert advice and coordinating maintenance programs and grants.  

With Victoria recently introducing two years of funded kindergarten, the VSBA is also working with the early childhood sector on a massive kindergarten construction program. 

About the Division

The Corporate Division provides corporate support to all VSBA teams and fulfills an important assurance and oversight role. They guide VSBA to achieve strategic objectives and ensure decision-making is transparent and accountable.

The division also coordinates communication and consultation with local communities about their school building projects. They develop graphic design and video content, manage our social media channels, lead organisational customer service reform, distribute our e-newsletters and organise ministerial and other events for our projects.  The Division also leads the organisational customer service reform and uplift program.

About the Role

This role manages the Standards, Training and Assurance (STA) unit in the Systems and Oversight Branch.

The STA Manager undertakes senior stakeholder engagement across the VSBA and wider Government. The role requires specialist knowledge of procurement, ideally construction procurement within a Government context, coupled with exceptional communications skills and stakeholder management.

The role is a unique leadership position responsible for maintaining the policies and processes that guide the compliant delivery of VSBA construction procurement activity, in total a program with more than $14.9 billion invested and over 3000 building projects.

The STA Manager leads on:

• Developing and maintaining the standards and frameworks that guide project and program delivery, ensuring the VSBA meets its compliance requirements.
• Contract management and monitoring of performance for the VSBA's independent
• assurance services.
• Driving an environment of continuous improvement in both documentation and practices.
• Providing construction procurement policy and procedural advice, including maintaining procurement guidance material and engagement at Whole of Victorian Government level on procurement policy settings and requirements.
• Providing training and support for VSBA staff on procurement, standards and frameworks, including VSBA's core systems.

All VSBA staff have a shared responsibility to meet the same service standards outlined in the VSBA Customer Service Charter. Our goal is to make every interaction with the VSBA a positive one for our customers, colleagues and key partners regardless of our individual role or team.

Attributes

This role is client focused and to be successful in the role the candidate will bring systems thinking, and pragmatic approach to problem solving, including being able to communicate complex ideas.

The ideal candidatre will have a solid understanding of construction procurement, project management along with strong stakeholder and communication skills.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• Desirable: considerable /demonstrated experience in similar role within government
• Desirable: Bachelor's degree Business/Commerce studies

Further Information

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.

The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.

For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Pieta Denholm - Manager via (03) 7022 0201 or pieta.denholm@education.vic.gov.au.

Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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This role is Fixed Term till 21 August 2026

Applications close 11:59pm on Sunday, 18 May 2025