Senior Assurance and Compliance Officer

About this role

• Provide key assurance functions across prisons including compliance audits and reviews
• Ongoing, full-time opportunity
• VPS5: $113,022 - $136,747 plus superannuation

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) is seeking a Senior Assurance and Compliance Officer, to provide a critical role within Operational Assurance, Compliance and Reviews, System Performance Branch, Custodial Operations.

About the Business Unit

Corrections Victoria is part of the Corrections and Justice Services group in the Department of Justice and Community Safety (department). 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 three teams, which are: Operational Assurance, Compliance and Reviews; Continuous Improvement; and Statewide Operational Support. The branch provides authoritative, strategic, operational 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 Safer Places to Work, 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 Corrections Victoria's responses to coronial matters and litigation, auditing, correspondence, prison outreach and implementation support and general advice to prisons and other departmental staff and internal and external stakeholders.

About the Role

The Senior Assurance and Compliance Officer reports to the Manager, Operational Assurance and Compliance and is responsible for auditing, reviewing and monitoring the performance of the correctional system. This role will be responsible for the collection and collation of information and data and prepare a range of complex documents including reports, audits and reviews, which outline areas of organisation risk, assessment of operational compliance, performance outcomes and opportunities for improved or strengthened practice. This role will also supervise staff and is responsible for undertaking consultation and liaison to gather information, statistics and views on identified issues, providing analysis, reports and recommendations to the Manager, Operational Assurance and Compliance.

The Senior Assurance and Compliance Officer will need an advanced level of Microsoft Excel, as this will play a critical role in day-to-day tasks.

While the position is based at 121 Exhibition Street Melbourne, flexible work arrangements are available, and you will be required to travel to other locations based on business needs.

Some of your duties will include:

• Contribute to monitoring the performance of the correctional system through the collection and collation of data and reporting against a range of performance measures.
• Participate in a range of activities including reviewing and monitoring of operational practices to determine compliance, identify and manage risks, and identify improvements; collect, collate, analyse and report data; and review and develop policies
• Undertake consultation and liaison to gather information, statistics and views on identified issues, providing analysis and interpretation and provide related reports and recommendations of those issues to the Manager, Operational Assurance and Compliance.  

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:

• Demonstrated understanding and awareness of the key issues impacting Corrections Victoria.
• Demonstrated experience collecting and analysing information to assist in identifying emerging issues and trends to support the identification and management of organisational risks, business improvement, policy development and achievement of performance outputs.

Qualifications

• There are no mandatory qualifications for this role; however a tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline would be highly 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 national police checks 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 work.