Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $79,122 - $96,073
Grade: VPS 3
Occupation: Human resources
Location: Loddon Mallee - Loddon
Reference: VG/6711SEPT2025
About Us:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) delivers a justice and community safety system that works to build a safer, fairer and stronger Victoria. Corrections Victoria is a business unit of the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS). Corrections Victoria's vision is ‘Safer prisons, safer people, safer communities.
Its mission is to have ‘A safer, smarter system with a skilled and supported workforce, that enables people in our care to make better decisions'. Rostering plays a critical role in ensuring the efficient operation of the location by managing staff deployments and rostering.
About the Role:
Rostering oversees the end-to-end rostering process, including building and maintaining rosters, managing shift allocations, timesheet management and ensuring accurate recording of staff attendance. Additionally, they coordinate leave requests and availability, ensuring compliance with workforce requirements and operational needs. The team also performs daily validation and reconciliation processes to ensure accurate system processing and to verify that entitlements are correctly applied in accordance with the department's policies, rostering principles and applicable enterprise agreement.
TimeTarget is the department's workforce management system used by all public prisons and Youth Justice facilities state-wide to manage their operations efficiently.
The role of the Rostering Officer is to assist with forward planning and development of rosters, up to 6 weeks in advance, managing day to day rostering enquiries, adjusting rosters to accommodate changes such as leave requests, unplanned absences and accommodating any changes based on operational needs.
An integral part of working as part of the Rostering team is in-person presence at the location. The role will require the incumbent to regularly attend their usual place of work.
Officers operate on a rotating 14-day roster, which involves weekend and public holiday work, remunerated in accordance with the applicable provisions of the VPS Enterprise Agreement.
About You:
To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate:
How to Apply:
Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include reference checks, national police checks 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.
< strong>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.