Honorary Justice Communications Officer - Melbourne City Centre, Australia - Department of Justice and Community Safety

Department of Justice and Community Safety
Department of Justice and Community Safety
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Melbourne City Centre, Australia

2 weeks ago

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Utilise your communication expertise to provide support and advice to the Honorary Justice Services Support team

  • Fixed term until 31/10/2023, Full-Time Opportunity to work with a highperforming and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
  • VPS Grade 4: $90,067 $102,192 plus superannuation.
About the Business Unit

System Governance Unit (SG) is a unit within Governance and Integrity Policy (GIP), Integrity, Legal and Law Reform (ILLR) of the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS).


There are three teams in System Governance:

  • Governance Strategy, Review and Appointments
- which is responsible for strategic reviews of key justice system entities, management of funding through the Appeal Costs Board, providing support to the Judicial Entitlements Panel, and managing the high priority appointments of judicial officers and key board appointments within the Attorney-General's portfolio

  • Legal Assistance: which drives the funding and reporting of services for the community legal sector at both Commonwealth and State level.
  • Honorary Justice Services Support which provides policy, daytoday management and operational oversight of Victoria's Honorary Justices.
About the Role

The Honorary Justice Communications Officer is a member of the Honorary Justice Services Support (HJSS) team and has a focus on strengthening communication between the HJSS team, DJCS and the cohort of volunteer honorary justices (Justices of the Peace and Bail Justices).

Working closely with the Manager and the Senior Stakeholder and Engagement Officer, the role will implement communication strategies in support of the HJSS program of work.


Some of your duties may include:

  • Plan, write and edit material for a wide variety of purposes such as articles, corporate publications and online content for specific audiences, as well as providing expert editorial and branding advice to the team
  • Work with the Senior Stakeholder and Engagement Officer to coordinate, develop and distribute communication materials, providing consistent messages to honorary justices
  • Work collaboratively across the Honorary Justices Services Support to ensure the delivery of effective communications that are of a high written and visual standard and that comply with departmental and Victorian Government guidelines.
About You

  • Excellent writing and editing skills with proven experience producing a range of highquality communications materials using clear, concise and grammatically correct language.
  • Strong planning and organisation skills with demonstrated project management experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically about projects to provide holistic communications advice.
  • Demonstrated experience working as part of a team in an operational program or complex project area
  • Sound knowledge of government processes
  • Intermediate skills in complex word processing, spreadsheet and database functions
Qualification/Requirements

  • A relevant tertiary qualification is highly desirable
  • Experience in working with, or an understanding of, volunteers (highly desirable)
How to apply


FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:


IMPORTANT INFORMATION:


The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic).

Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.

Prior to commencement of employment with the department you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19.

Upon commencement of employment with the department you will be required to provide evidence that you have an up-to-date vaccination status within the timelines specified by the department into the DJCS Service Portal.

This includes evidence of all doses of a COVID-19 vaccine required by the department (from time to time).


Acceptable evidence includes:


  • COVID19 digital certificate or ATAGI exemption certificate (available via your myGov account)
  • Your immunisation history statement (available via your myGov account)
Other documentation outside the above will not be accepted as evidence of having received your COVID-19 vaccine doses.
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