Principal Adviser

Queensland Corrective Services; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Corrective Services is seeking a Principal Advisor, Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) in Brisbane to provide high‑level advisory, coordination, and assurance support. The role supports statewide governance, risk management, and funded work plan delivery for CVE initiatives, strengthening capability and cross‑agency coordination.

The successful candidate will bring governance experience, stakeholder collaboration skills, and the ability to analyze complex information to inform

Qualifications

• Knowledge of contemporary correctional practice and offender governance.
• Ability to monitor milestones, outputs and reporting requirements.
• Ability to analyse complex information and provide practical advice.
• Experience coordinating funded projects across multiple parties.
• High-level written communication for reports and briefings.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills with stakeholders.
• Experience interpreting legislation, policy and information sharing requirements.
• Ability to work autonomously with sound judgement and deliver timely outcomes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of CVE governance and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provide high‑level advisory, coordination, and performance support to the Statewide CVE team.
• Coordinate governance, funded work plans, and risk management for CVE initiatives.
• Support delivery of statewide programs, awareness raising, and capability strengthening.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistent practice and reporting.

Job description

Queensland Corrective Services – Brisbane QLD

The purpose of the Principal Advisor, Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) role is to provide high level advisory, coordination, performance monitoring and assurance support to the Statewide Manager, Countering Violent Extremism team in the delivery of statewide governance, funded work plan commitments and risk management functions for violent extremist prisoners and offenders. The role supports delivery of National Support and Intervention Program activities, including awareness raising, effective intervention, strengthening CVE capability, and strengthening consistency and coordination across QCS and partner agencies.

Please refer to role profile for full details.

The most suitable applicant will demonstrate their applied knowledge, skills, and experience against these essential role requirements of the Individual Contributor leadership stream:

• High level knowledge of contemporary correctional practice, offender management and governance arrangements relevant to high risk, high harm or violent extremist prisoners and offenders;
• Demonstrated ability to monitor work program milestones, outputs and reporting requirements, and to identify delivery risks, dependencies and mitigation strategies in a complex funded service delivery environment;
• Demonstrated ability to analyse complex operational, stakeholder, performance and governance information and provide practical advice on implications for decision-making, assurance and continuous improvement;
• Experience supporting the delivery of projects, funded initiatives, procedures, frameworks, training plans or stakeholder engagement strategies that require coordination across multiple parties;
• High level written communication skills, including the ability to prepare, review and quality assure sensitive reports, briefings, correspondence, submissions, committee documentation and reporting material for senior audiences;
• Strong interpersonal, consultation and negotiation skills, including the ability to build and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders on sensitive and complex matters;
• Experience interpreting and applying legislation, policy, procedures, information sharing requirements and information management obligations to support lawful, ethical and defensible decision-making;
• Demonstrated ability to work with autonomy, exercise sound judgement, prioritise competing demands and deliver high quality outcomes within agreed timeframes; and
• Ability to contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen systems, reporting, governance controls, stakeholder coordination and practice consistency across the CVE team.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.