Program Officer, Planning and Capability - Melbourne City Centre, Australia - 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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Olivia Brown

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Description

Challenging and rewarding role

Opportunity to lead the delivery of key projects

VPS4, Fulltime

Fixed Term until 30 June 2024

The Program Officer, Planning and Capability will support the Senior Project Officer - Exercising in designing, organising and facilitating stakeholder engagement and consultation, maintaining stakeholder relationships and associated communication activity.

The key responsibilities for this role will include:

Provide advice on communications and engagement strategies in respect to planning for and the delivery and evaluation of emergency management plan exercises.
Contribute to the development and implementation of emergency management plan exercises, with an emphasis on communications and engagement aspects.
Develop timely communications for relevant stakeholders (including key state, regional and municipal stakeholders, senior management, the State Emergency Management Planning Committee, and project staff) to a quality and standard which meet stakeholder needs.
Support the delivery of projects through maintaining project documentation, supporting procurement processes, responding to reporting requests and identify and communicate issue and risks.

To be successful you will have:

Experience in managing complex stakeholder and associated communication needs in a complex, contested a public sector environment.
Proven ability to write clearly on complex issues for a wide range of stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and with initiative.
Knowledge of Victoria's emergency management arrangements.

Enquiries about this position should be directed to Sarah Leverett, Program Manager, Planning and Capability on
Applications close midnight Tuesday 30 May 2023.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

CHILD SAFETY 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.

EARLY RETIREMENT SCHEME:

A re-employment restriction of one year applies to all recipients of an Early Retirement Scheme package from the VPS.