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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
Reporting to the Manager, Preliminary Investigation Team 2, the Senior Investigations Advisor is responsible for providing expert advice to School Principals and VPS Managers about employment actions arising out of enquiries and investigations of reportable conduct, complaints, misconduct and unsatisfactory performance.
The Senior Investigations Advisor is responsible for:
* providing expert advice and support to stakeholders to ensure effective management of misconduct and unsatisfactory performance
* overseeing and managing investigations and performance to assess and triage matters, and ensure effective management of misconduct and unsatisfactory performance, including consideration of risks to student and staff
* notifications to the Commission for Children and Young People under the Reportable Conduct Scheme in relation to departmental employees and others engaged in departmental workplaces.
* modelling the Public Sector Values and ensuring relevant departmental policies and procedures are followed
* contributing to building team capability
* building strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including senior decision-makers and with external regulators, including the CCYP and the Victorian Institute of Teaching
* implementing system and process changes to drive continuous improvement
About You
This role will suit an experienced advisor who can leverage their expert knowledge and experience to drive success. You will be a logical, problem solver, with strong experience providing advice and support to a broad range of stakeholders .
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:
* experience providing complex advice within defined policies and procedures
* excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship building skills, working within a multi-stakeholder environment
* high level written communication skills, developing a range of complex written documentation
* sound conceptual thinking ability, as well as excellent problem solving and conflict resolution skills