The Victorian Curriculum & Assessment Authority (VCAA) is a statutory body responsible to the Victorian Minister for Education, serving both government and non-government schools. We provide high quality curriculum, assessment and reporting for all Victorian students from birth to 18 years.

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Corporate Services Division in the Assessment Applications Unit for an ongoing full-time position.

• Salary: $97,955- $111,142 (Plus Superannuation of 12%)
• Ongoing
• Usual hours of work: Full time (flexible work conditions are available)
• Usual work location: East Melbourne

The Assessment Applications Unit is responsible for the ongoing maintenance and development of bespoke applications that are used in the delivery of VCE, VET, VPC and NAPLAN.
The team is part of the VCAA IT Branch, and sits within the Corporate Services Division.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology and/or demonstrated experience in a similar role.
• Proven experience and efficiency in the use of Uniface (or other procedural scripting language), Oracle database and PL/SQL. (Applicants without Uniface experience may apply, but will be expected to learn how to program in Uniface).
• Proven experience and effiency in the use of: VB.NET, ASP.NET (C#), MVC, ASP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript and SQL Server database. (Applicants without VB.NET experience may apply, but will be expected to learn how to program in VB.NET).

Desirable:

• Proven experience at leading small to medium sized IT projects.

The purpose of this role is to provide expert analysis, programming and leadership of software changes to a suite of VCAA custom built applications that are used to run assessments in Victoria, including VCE, VET, VPC and NAPLAN.
Proven experience and efficiency in the following group of technologies is required: VB.NET, ASP.NET (C#) with MVC, Uniface, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, MS SQL Server and Oracle database and PL/SQL or tSQL. Applicants without Uniface or VB.NET experience may apply, but will be expected to learn these languages as part of the role.
The main focus of application development will be the Victorian Student Register (VSR - VB.NET), Assessment Processing System (APS - Uniface, PL/SQL) and Victorian Assessment Software System (VASS - C#.NET).
The position will also be responsible for managing one to two small to medium IT development projects each year.
Providing on call support during critical business processing periods is a requirement of this position.