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 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.