The Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions (DJSIR) is focused on growing Victoria’s prosperity, building the productive capacity of our economy and increasing participation – by creating more opportunities for people through skills and jobs; helping businesses and industries to thrive; and building vibrant communities and regions. For more information, see the DJSIR Strategic Plan 2023-2027.
Established on 1 January 2023, our work spans numerous portfolios, supporting departmental ministers and operating across metropolitan, regional and international offices. We oversee various public entities, including public corporations, regulatory authorities and specialist boards.
The Department strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and offers reasonable adjustments for applicants with disabilities.
Our values are accountability, integrity and respect, and underpin everything we do.
Regional Development Officer
- Salary: $97,955 - $111,142 (Plus Superannuation)
- Fixed Term position to 9 October 2026
- Usual hours of work: Full time (flexibility may be available)
- Usual work location: 703-709 Raglan Parade, Warrnambool VIC 3280 (flexibility may be available)
The Role
As a Regional Development Officer, you will be responsible for assisting in the promotion, delivery and management of a range of economic development initiatives for communities and businesses in the region to identify and facilitate place-based solutions to support enhanced liveability and prosperity in regional communities. The position will provide project support, administer, process and monitor grant applications and projects, undertake routine research, analysis and other activities as required for the Regional Development team.
This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong organisational and communication skills, experience in providing project support on economic development initiatives and experience developing effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Key accountabilities include:
- Support integrated investment in place by understanding and liaising with key internal and external stakeholders and partners by developing and maintaining relationships and networks with Federal, State and local government, community organisations, business, and industry.
- Support investment attraction, economic development, and the delivery of a range of DJSIR/RDV industry and recovery initiatives across the region, utilising commercial acumen and a sound understanding of regional economies, workforce, geography, stakeholders and transport links to identify, leverage and/ or create regional development opportunities, in collaboration with the regional team.
- Support a portfolio of stakeholders through promoting, delivering and managing a range of development initiatives for community and businesses within the region including identifying and delivering new investment initiatives in response to leads from business intelligence and analytics insights, community, industry and other internal and external stakeholders in alignment with investment KPIs.
- Support the program objectives by maintaining links with program areas including facilitating grant and milestone management activities and monitoring, managing and reviewing performance of grant recipients and supporting cohesive grant delivery within the group.
- Contribute to the delivery of a range of government funding programs and initiatives across the region and maintain strategic links with relevant program areas.
- Undertake routine research and analysis and provide project support to the broader RDV Regional team. Prepare high quality, well researched correspondence, reports, submissions, presentations and briefings that are clear and concise within agreed timeframes and suitable for its intended audience.
The Team
The position of Regional Development Officer will work across Barwon South West region, which sits within the Regional Development Victoria group.
Regional Development Victoria group works with businesses, communities and across government to deliver economic growth, create jobs, build resilience, and support economic recovery in our regions. We have a strong role in activating networks; building partnerships; realising outcomes that boost local economic and community resilience; and bringing the lived experience of communities into government decision making. In delivering our portfolio priorities, we work closely with parts of government given the many synergies and linkages with other priorities across government.
About You
To be successful in this role you will have the following skills and experience:
- Project Management: Project management, business development and account management experience with experience producing project plans where objectives are clearly defined; experience communicating with and supporting project team members, ensuring project objectives are met by anticipating and managing potential and emerging issues.
- Stakeholder Management: Takes concrete steps to add value for the stakeholder; links people with other areas (as appropriate), monitors client and stakeholder satisfaction; constructively deals with stakeholder issues.
- Problem Solving: Seeks all relevant information for problem-solving; investigates and probes for the facts; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems.
- Verbal and Written Communication: Demonstrated ability to prepare briefs, letters, emails and reports using clear, concise and grammatically correct language on issues relevant to businesses and the economic development opportunities for communities in the region; ensuring written communications contain necessary information to achieve their purpose; uses appropriate style and formats. Confidently conveys ideas and information in a clear and interesting way; understands and meets the needs of target audiences (the right information to the right people); welcomes constructive feedback; sees things from other's points of view and confirms understanding.
- Conceptual and Analytical Ability: Deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.
Further Information
For a confidential discussion, please contact Seona Taylor, Manager, Regional Development, Great South Coast on 0409 144 675.
The department is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation. We have zero tolerance of child abuse and are committed to taking the necessary steps to protect children from harm by adopting a preventative, proactive and participatory approach to child safety in accordance with the Child Safe Standards.
Successful candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Records Check prior to commencing employment with the Department. For further information on the position, please refer to the attached position description.
Please note: We are accredited as a Disability Confident Recruitment (DCR) organisation and committed to inclusive recruitment. If you require an adjustment to participate in any stage of the recruitment process or have a particular requirement to be communicated with by either telephone or email only, please notify the DJSIR Recruitment Team on 0472875685, or via email at [email protected] with the position number in the subject line. For additional contact details for our team please review the attached Position Description, located under Job Attachments in the right hand menu.
How to Apply
Please click the ‘Apply Now' button. As part of the application process, you will need to provide a copy of your resume and cover letter.
Applications close at 23:59pm on Thursday, 24 July 2025.