Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Education Support - Level 1, Range 4
Occupation: Education and training
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 1552547
Criteria 1: Demonstrates the "Victorian Public Sector Values" of Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights.
Position Specific Criteria:
Criteria 2: "Customer Focus" - please see the Capabilities section above for more detail.
Criteria 3: "Project Delivery" - please see the Capabilities section above for more detail.
Criteria 4: "Partnering and Co-creation" - please see the Capabilities section above for more detail.
Desirable: Relevant tertiary qualification in Human Resource Management
Position title: Senior Project Officer
Group: Resourcing and Information Systems Group
Location: CBD
Classification: ES1-4
Employment Status: Ongoing
FTE: 1.0
Salary range: $114,215 - $134,668
The Senior Project Officer is responsible for planning, designing, coordinating and delivering key school workforce HR programs, while providing support across a range of broader divisional priorities and activities.
A key focus of the role is ensuring the effective delivery of these programs from initial planning and design through to implementation and evaluation, while fostering positive engagement and productive relationships with stakeholders.
As a senior role within the Schools Workforce Division, the position requires effective consultation and collaboration with a range of internal and external stakeholders, oversight of key deliverables and regular reporting to senior executives on progress and outcomes.
The successful candidate will bring strong project management, organisational, written communication and stakeholder engagement skills, alongside sound judgement and critical thinking to develop practical and innovative solutions to complex issues.
You will have demonstrated experience in delivering high-quality programs, establishing and maintaining productive relationships, and working collaboratively to achieve organisational objectives. You will also have experience in stakeholder engagement, facilitation and governance.
Note: The Salary range shown includes 30 days of additional attendance required, as compared to standard Education Support roles under the Victorian Government Schools Agreement 2022. The successful candidate will be entitled to four weeks of annual leave, to be taken during periods as agreed with their manager.
Role Requirements
Decision Making: Interprets and applies business plans and policies in own area of responsibility and provides advice to others on implementation issues. Accountable for program delivery, allocation of resources and the outputs required.
Communication: Initiates and maintains relationships with both peer and senior internal and external stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders, industry bodies and other government agencies to influence views, ensure co-operation, and meet timelines for program delivery.
Policy and Projects: Develops program briefs consistent with business plan direction. Manages and leads complex departmental programs
Operational Service Delivery: Manages cross-functional delivery of programs with significant budgets, employee responsibilities or sensitive or complex issues. Determines the resource allocation required for programs.
Role Capabilities
Personal attributes
Working Collaboratively: Promotes a culture of collaboration. Identifies and works to overcome barriers to knowledge or information sharing. Identifies opportunities to work with other teams to deliver outcomes.
Meaningful Outcomes
Strategic Planning: Ensures day to day planning and work processes are in line with team strategy. Identifies and develops own and team objectives linking strategies to actions to achieve these.
Partnering and Co-creation: Partners with stakeholders to collaborate program design process, to best understand user needs, obtain ideas, insights, and input. Ensures decisions are made within agreed timeline.
Enabling Delivery
Project Delivery: Translates strategies into programs or projects that actively enable the achievement of outcomes. Defines the governance (e.g., success measures, roles and responsibilities, progress monitoring) required to manage risks and maximise success.
Authentic Relationships
Stakeholder Management: Takes steps to add value to stakeholders. Monitors stakeholder satisfaction and constructively deals with stakeholder issues.
Customer Focus: Identifies and responds to customer requirements. Uses understanding of stakeholders' context to tailor programs and ensure program outcomes are delivered. Effectively manages risks to service delivery.
Leadership
Provide advice and support to the divisional leadership team on the planning, delivery and implementation of school workforce programs and related HR matters, within the scope of the role, and seek guidance from the relevant manager on complex or sensitive matters.
The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]
Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview
About the Division
Schools Workforce Division is responsible for providing quality employee services and human resources to support school-based and regional staff in best practice and delivering on workforce strategies and initiatives to support the attraction and retention of teachers and school workforce staff in Victorian government schools.
Provides support and advice on payroll and recruitment, school workforce performance and development, HR data analysis and reporting
Implements and manages a range of workforce supply initiatives to increase supply and distribution of teachers across Victoria, providing targeted support to schools experiencing workforce challenges
Manages the industrial environment for the school's workforce and employee relations matters and the appointment processes for the Merit Protection Boards and the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
The position is located in the East Melbourne office with a hybrid working model available.
Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.
Applicants should keep a copy of the position description as it cannot be accessed once the job has closed.A current employee Working with Children Check Victoria is required for this role.
If appointed from outside the Department, successful applicants may be required to complete a pre-employment health declaration.
Successful applicants are subject to a satisfactory criminal record check prior to employment.
A probationary period of up to 3 months may apply for a person appointed to an ongoing position from outside the Public Service or the Teaching Service.