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 Division

The Department of Education (the department) is responsible for delivering and regulating state-wide learning and development services to approximately one-third of all Victorians across the early childhood and school education sectors. The department is also one of Victoria's biggest employers, with approximately 80,000 teaching staff and around 5,000 public service employees.

The Legal Division provides highly valued legal services to support the delivery of the department's strategic objectives, key reforms and to manage legal risk. In doing so, Legal Division provides direct, practical and strategic legal advice to portfolio ministers, the secretary, other senior staff and over 1,600 government schools, supporting approximately over 650,000 Victorian Government school students.

About the role – ongoing, full-time

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Department of Education, working in Legal Division as a Senior Data Analyst, Legal Operations.

The successful candidate will bring technical expertise and demonstrated competency in data analytics and reporting to the division. Working closely with internal stakeholders to produce high quality and robust reports, the ideal candidate will demonstrate familiarity with data collection and reporting processes, together with confidence in their ability to quickly navigate data collected through a range of systems including the division's Case Matter Management System.

The successful candidate will also undertake deep-dive analytics projects to explore legal data in greater detail, identifying trends and developing insights to help inform operational and strategic decision-making, including in the area of service improvement.

A solid understanding of data manipulation, analysis and reporting, visual data presentation skills, and experience in extracting data from relational databases is essential to the role. Experience with dimensional data modelling approaches (such as star schemas) will also be highly regarded. An understanding of best practice approaches to managing systems and applicatons, including change control, issue management and working within organisational governance processes is required.

Why join us?

• Meaningful work that is varied, satisfying and rewarding – A career as a government lawyer provides opportunities that are unrivalled by the private sector. Scale, impact and richness of work sets the public sector apart from almost every other employer. To find out more about the wide range of opportunities for bright publicly minded lawyers visit Legal profession | vic.gov.au

• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements — Part time, flexible start and finish times, work from home to help manage your work and personal commitments.
• Competitive salary – Annual salary increases in line with the Victorian Public Service Enterprise Agreement
• Diversity and inclusion - As one of Victoria's largest employers, the department is committed to creating an organisation that is inclusive and ensuring it has a workforce that represents the community it serves.
• Values – The department has adopted the public sector values which are set out in the Code of Conduct for Victorian Public Sector Employees, which are Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values underpin how we interact with colleagues, students and families, members of the community, suppliers and government.
• Employee assistance program — For emotional, mental and general psychological wellbeing and support

Application documents required

Applicants are required to submit a CV and a cover letter (no more than 2 pages).

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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 more information, please review the attached position description, or for a confidential discussion regarding the role, please contact Sarah Thorne - Legal Operations Manager via Sarah.Thorne@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 Friday 15 May 2026.