Work Type: Fixed-term - Full-time
Salary: $79,122 - $96,073
Grade: VPS 3
Occupation: IT and telecommunications
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: VG/DE/FPIS/1877802
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 the Division
The Information Management and Technology Division (IMTD) guides the Departments' digital capability and is leading digital transformation for the Department including Victorian government schools. The Division architects, manages and supports the largest technology network in Victoria, supporting a user base of approximately 750,000 staff and students.
IMTD provides innovation and leadership in the transformation and management of the Department's digital capability through the implementation of solutions on the department's cloud environment (IaaS), enterprise cloud platforms (PaaS) and software (SaaS), using agile practices with a focus on user experience, security and integration.
About the Role
The Associate Security Assurance Analyst will be supporting activities to uplift and sustain a robust security culture across corporate and school users. Working as a part of a team, the successful candidate will be working on business-as-usual awareness tasks and on new projects creating awareness communications, facilitating education and training sessions, reviewing data and engaging stakeholders across the department.
Attributes
The role requires the following capabilities:
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications in ICT, Information Security, Education/training or Communications and Change Management are desirable.
Experience working in or with schools, PowerBi and Microsoft Defender is desirable.
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 further information pertaining to the role, please contact Simone Wall – Security Culture Lead via (03) 7022 1830or [email protected].
Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Informa tion provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.
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Applications close 11:59pm on Tuesday 19 August 2025.