Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $113,022 - $136,747
Grade: VPS 5
Occupation: Policy
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: VG/ECE/1875281
About the Department
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 Victorian Child Information Sharing Division sits within Early Childhood Education group. The division leads the CIS reform, which includes the Child Information Sharing Scheme and Child Link, to promote child wellbeing and safety. The division contributes to implementation and change management activities for the early childhood system reforms, including measuring attendance of children at Kindergarten to support the roll-out of the Best Start, Best Life Reforms.
About the Role
The position is part of a dynamic, cross-functional and responsive branch, the Child Information Sharing Policy and Strategy branch, that leads the statewide implementation of the CIS reform.
The Senior Policy Officer will lead and contribute to the development of high quality strategic and operational policy advice to support the implementation of the CIS reform, with a strong focus on Child Link. This work includes project management to ensure strategies are translated in a way to maximise the achievement of identified outcomes.
The role undertakes consultation across the Division and external stakeholders to ensure policy issues are effectively translated into technical capabilities, operational processes, and practice guidance for end-users.
To be successful in this role
This role provides an exciting opportunity for a person with strong policy design and development capabilities and who actively contributes to a positive team and branch culture.
The successful candidate will be able to scope and develop public policy options and outline a clear narrative for these.
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Further Information
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.
For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Wendy Pham, Manager - CIS Operational Policy via [email protected].
Please note that the successful applicant is required to apply for a Working with Children Check (Employee) prior to commencement and is required to meet the cost of this check.
Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.
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Applications close 11:59pm on Monday 4 August 2025.