Assistant Manager - Specialist Response Unit

Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victoria; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 116,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Justice and Community Safety in Victoria is seeking an Assistant Manager, Specialist Response Unit to provide a critical role within the Post Sentence Branch. This fixed term, full-time secondment backfill supports operational services across the unit and collaborates with Victoria Police and other agency partners.

The role requires experience in complex service delivery, stakeholder engagement, and management of high-profile individuals, with responsibilities across governance

Qualifications

• Proven ability to work within a highly complex service delivery area.
• Understanding of establishing stakeholder relationships and ongoing engagement.
• Awareness of issues in managing complex/high-profile individuals.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor operational service functions for the Specialist Response Unit and ensure procedures are followed.
• Coordinate monitoring strategies for supervision order offenders with Victoria Police and other units.
• Establish effective communication with senior stakeholders and agency partners; may involve regional travel.

Skills

Complex service delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Communication strategies

Education

Tertiary qualification preferred

Job description

• Manage and monitor operational service functions within a Specialist Response Unit.
• Fixed Term, Full time opportunity (Secondment backfill until 10/02/2028).

About This Role

• Manage and monitor operational service functions within a Specialist Response Unit.
• Fixed Term, Full time opportunity (Secondment backfill until 10/02/2028).
• VPS5– $116,413 - $140,849 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Assistant Manager, Specialist Response Unit to provide a critical role within the Post Sentence Branch.

About The Business Unit

Corrections Victoria operates Victoria's adult corrections system, including Community Correctional Services across more than 50 locations, and manages 11 public prisons, one transition centre, and oversees three privately operated prisons. It ensures prisoners are safely and securely contained and aims to rehabilitate offenders by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.

The Community Operations and Offender Services Division of Corrections Victoria is responsible for providing best practice interventions which aim to reduce the risk of reoffending including quality assurance systems for risk assessment and case management, offending behaviour programs, and transition and reintegration supports. The Community Operations and Offender Services Division has responsibility for the post-sentence supervision scheme and is also responsible for the Secretariat of the Victorian Adult Parole Board.

The Post Sentence Branch, within the Community Operations and Offender Services Division of Corrections Victoria, provides central oversight and governance of the post sentence scheme and offenders subject to post sentence orders. The Serious Offenders Act 2018 sets out a civil, non-punitive scheme that provides for the ongoing supervision or detention of serious sex and/or serious violent offenders who have completed their sentence and pose an unacceptable risk of committing further relevant offences.

Corrections Victoria's end-to-end management and delivery of services to serious offenders on post-sentence orders occurs through a multi-faceted governance and operating model.

About The Role

The Assistant Manager, Specialist Response Unit oversees the service functions of the unit and has a key role in the complex and sensitive negotiations with Victoria Police and other Corrections Victoria business areas as required. The role will also lead the Senior Coordinator, Specialist Response Unit and provide guidance and advice to others in the Post Sentence Branch as required.

Some Of Your Duties Will Include

• Manage and monitor operational service functions for the Specialist Response Unit and ensure these functions are consistent with operating procedures, agency agreements, legislative requirements and the Serious Offenders Act 2018.
• Support the coordination of monitoring strategies for supervision order offenders with Victoria Police and other Corrections Victoria business areas including the Corrections Victoria Intelligence Unit and the Electronic Monitoring Program.
• Establish effective communication strategies with senior stakeholders and agency partners including Victoria Police, Post Sentence Authority, Community Correctional Services and other service providers (this may also include some travel to regional areas).

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:

• Proven ability to work within a highly complex service delivery area, preferably with multiple and complex needs client and/or within a legislative framework.
• Practical knowledge and understanding of establishing stakeholder relationships and ongoing engagement in a complex operating environment.
• Awareness of current and emerging issues in the management of complex and/or high-profile individuals.

Qualifications/requirements

• A relevant tertiary qualification is preferred, but not mandatory.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include reference checks, nationally coordinated criminal history checks (NCCHC), and misconduct screening. Dependant on the role, other checks may include VicRoads checks, drivers licence checks, medical checks, Working with Children Checks, and Declaration of Private Interests (for executive and responsible officer roles).

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.