Assistant Manager Sentence Management

Queensland Corrective Services; Cairns Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Corrective Services is seeking an Assistant Manager Sentence Management to support the Manager in day-to-day operations and governance oversight. The role involves supervising staff, analyzing workloads, and ensuring compliance with legislation, policies, and timelines for prisoner management.

You will also contribute to staff performance, training, and complex reporting. The position reports to the Manager Sentence Management services and requires strong communication, risk

Qualifications

• Experience supervising and leading a team; support Manager in HR processes.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and escalate issues.
• Experience in the criminal justice environment or governed systems with rapid learning of laws.
• Maintain governance, oversight systems and quality assurance processes.
• Strong written and oral communication; ability to prepare complex reports.
• Staff engagement: coaching, mentoring and handling difficult conversations.

Responsibilities

• Support the Manager Sentence Management and supervise staff performance.
• Analyse trends and workloads to ensure adequate resource allocation.
• Contribute to day-to-day operations of the unit and governance oversight.
• Prepare and present reports to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, directives, procedures and policies.
• Manage staff development, training, and performance conversations.

Skills

Team leadership

HR processes

Governance & QA

Report writing

Staff development

Stakeholder communication

Job description

In this role you will provide support to the Manager and contributes to the day to day operations of a unit whilst performing other sentence management functions as required. The position is responsible for quality assurance and governance oversight of tasks completed to ensure compliance with legislation, mandated timeframes, agency directives, procedures and policies for the lawful detention of prisoners, appropriate prisoner security classification and placement in accordance with their delegated authority. The Assistant Manager is responsible for the direct supervision of staff and will support the Manager Sentence Management in managing staff performance, training and development, as well as analysing trends and workloads to ensure adequate resource allocation within their teams. This position reports directly to the Manager, Sentence Management services.

Requirements

• Experience and a demonstrated skill set for supervising and leading a team including supporting the Manager in the application of human resource management processes;
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, respond to new and unexpected events and appropriately escalation issues;
• Experience in the criminal justice environment including the interpretation and application of legislation, policy and practice directives in an operational environment is preferable or alternatively possess a similar work experience that demonstrates your previous exposure to governed systems and an ability to rapidly acquire necessary knowledge;
• Demonstrated ability to maintain governance and oversight systems including using information to support service delivery and performance as well as to maintain effective quality assurance processes;
• Strong written and oral communication skills and an attention to detail in this regard including in the preparation of and completion of complex reports, for both internal and external stakeholders; and
• Proven skills in staff engagement including coaching, mentoring and staff development as well as experience in conducting difficult conversations, negotiating resolutions and appropriately reporting issues and actions.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/701402/26

Closing Date: Thursday, 1st October 2026

Occupational group Administration