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About the Department
The Department of Education (DE) leads the delivery of education and development services to children and students both directly through government schools and indirectly through the regulation and funding of early childhood services and non-government schools.
About the Division
The Conduct and Integrity Division provides expert advice and support to Victorian government school principals and other people managers in the Department of Education on managing employee conduct and performance including child safety concerns and fraud and corruption.
There are four branches within the Division:
* Preliminary Investigations Branch
* Child Safety Investigations Branch
* Child Safety and Fraud Investigations Branch
* Child Safety and Integrity (Policy and Operations) Branch.
The Division leads critical functions with respect to both school and corporate employees and operations:
* child safety misconduct and reportable conduct investigations, including notifications to the Commission for Children and Young People (CCYP) under the Reportable Conduct Scheme in relation to departmental employees and others engaged in departmental workplaces and notifications to the Disability Worker Regulation Commission
* fraud and corruption investigations, including mandatory reporting to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) and public interest disclosures
* developing and maintaining the department's guidelines on managing complaints, misconduct and unsatisfactory performance for the government teaching service and the public service
* providing expert advice and support to principals and people managers to manage allegations of misconduct, unsatisfactory performance, fitness for duty and
* expert advice and management of fraud and corruption, conflict of interest, and integrity performance monitoring and reporting
* pre-employment screening, and expert advice on suitability for employment and management of the department's Employment Limitation policy
* managing relationships with oversight and integrity bodies (including the Victorian Institute of Teaching, CCYP, IBAC, Victorian Ombudsman and the Victorian Public Sector Commission)
* capability building and training activities aimed at increasing staff confidence to prevent, speak up, identify and respond to inappropriate behaviour, reportable conduct and misconduct
* strengthening avenues for staff to speak up about inappropriate behaviour and misconduct
* driving behavioural and system change to build a stronger culture of integrity in the department.
About the Role
This role is Fixed Term Full Time from the 19/08/2025 till 19/08/2028.
Reporting to the Manager, Child Safety Systems, the Principal Business Analyst is responsible for leading system, business and process improvement projects for the Conduct and Integrity Division.
The purpose of this role is to:
* Identify system improvement and process improvement opportunities for the Division
* Define and refine opportunities through thorough business analysis including requirements gathering and validation, data analysis and process mapping
* Engage with stakeholders from across the Division and externally as required
* Manage improvement implementation including timing, change management, documentation including training material and guideline documentation
* Build and develop user acceptance test plans and validate with users
* Engage with system vendor to manage development, testing and implementation system changes
* Coordinate with other business units on changes and upgrades to their versions of the application
About You
This role will suit an experienced Principal Business Analyst who can leverage their expert knowledge and experience to drive success.
As our ideal candidate, you will:
* possess a continuous improvement mindset and the ability to drive change through meticulous business analysis and process improvement
* have excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship building skills, working within a multi-stakeholder environment
* be a logical, problem solver, who displays initiative and commitment
* have sound conceptual thinking ability, as well as excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skills.