**Utilise your Accounting expertise to provide support and advice to Corrections Victoria at Loddon Mallee Region Prisons**:
- **Two Ongoing, Full-Time opportunities to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**:
- **VPS Grade 2: $58,539 - $75,175 plus superannuation.**
**About the Business Unit**:
Corrections Victoria is responsible for the direction, management and operation of Victoria's prison system and Post Sentence Scheme. As a service agency within the Department of Justice & Community Safety (DJCS), Corrections Victoria develops and implements policies, programs and services that ensure the safe and secure containment of prisoners, and that seek to rehabilitate offenders by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.
**About the Role**:
The Justice Officer - Stores and Finance delivers services within prison facilities. This role is primarily based at Loddon Prison & Middleton at Castlemaine; facilities for male prisoners within the medium and restricted minimum-security categories but also provides services from Tarrengower Prison at Maldon, a minimum-security facility for female prisoners.
The Justice Officer - Stores and Finance provides timely and effective corporate services including warehouse, stores, forklift operations, finance support, purchasing, procurement, stock and inventory control, working in the prisoner shops and various other related duties.
This position requires direct prisoner contact and supervision and may involve weekend and public holiday work, in accordance with the applicable provision of the VPS Enterprise Agreement 2024
Some of your duties will include:
- Under the direction of the Team Leader - Stores and Finance, providing a range of Stores & Finance services including warehouse, forklift operations, finance support, purchasing, procurement, stock/inventory control, general prison/prisoner services administration and various other related duties in compliance with the _Financial Management Act 1994_, ministerial directions, instructions, guidelines and operating procedures
- Serving prisoners within prisoner shops/canteens whilst being responsible for direct supervision of prisoner workers, ordering and receipting of stock, maintenance of minimum stock levels and shop lists, security of shop stock, stocktaking and stock-control, record-keeping and shop cleanliness.
- Working productively and respectfully as part of a dedicated and supportive team within a rotational roster framework featuring task responsibilities in accordance with this position description.
To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
**About You**:
- Well-developed computer literacy
- Experience with Oracle or similar finance related system
- An understanding of shop, store and warehousing operations including associated stock management.
- Qualifications/Requirements:_
**How to Apply**:
**_ FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:_**
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**CHILD SAFE 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.