As the School Improvement Project Support Officer for the Student Wellbeing and Engagement Division, your responsibility is to provide high quality executive and administrative support to assist in the delivery of the Department of Education and Training's priorities, aims, and objectives. 

The role will support the Executive Director and their teams in the North West Victoria Region. Key responsibilities will include executive and administrative support, correspondence and record keeping, diary management, distributing information and materials to stakeholders, arranging office meetings such as booking and preparing venues, agendas, minutes, catering, and maintaining relevant databases and registers for tracking.

Schools and Regional Services comprises 17 Areas within four regions across the state, as well as five central Divisions. The responsibilities of Schools and Regional Services include:

• Service delivery including performance, contract management, funding delivery and acquittal
• Program implementation including detailed implementation planning and delivery
• Local area engagement, advice, support and partnerships
• Workforce capability development, professional practice leadership and delivery
• Emergency management including critical incident response.

The Area-based regional operating model is designed to:

• Provide greater responsiveness, innovation and joined-up responses to local needs
• Enable a focus on place as an organising structure for schools and other services
• Enable regional staff to engage more effectively with our service providers, schools, students and learners, families and local communities, and to understand what they need
• Facilitate better relationships and collaborative networks that more effectively support learners to move more seamlessly through our education system and beyond.
• Enable complex issues to be addressed through more targeted, integrated and coordinated responses.

As the School Improvement Project Support Officer for the Student Wellbeing and Engagement Division, your responsibility is to provide high quality executive and administrative support to assist in the delivery of the Department of Education and Training's priorities, aims, and objectives. The role will support the Executive Director and their teams. Key responsibilities will include executive and administrative support, correspondence and record keeping, diary management, distributing information and materials to stakeholders, arranging office meetings such as booking and preparing venues, agendas, minutes, catering, and maintaining relevant databases and registers for tracking.

For more details regarding this position please see attached position descriptions.

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 Patricia Brophy, Manager via email Patricia.Brophy@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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Applications close 11:59pm on Wednesday 11 February 2026