About This Role
* Ongoing, full‐time role
* VPS Grade 3: $79,122 – $96,073 plus superannuation
* Support the coordination and delivery of high‐quality executive support services
* Experience a dynamic and innovative workplace
* Help shape operations for the future of corrections
Western Plains Correctional Centre is a modern, maximum‐security facility designed to support rehabilitation and positive behavioural change for up to 1,248 people in custody. Western Plains features advanced infrastructure, including medical wards, a cultural centre and vocational training facilities, enabling a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to care.
Through its innovative design and integrated service model, Western Plains promotes safety, strengthens connections and supports successful reintegration into the community. Working across Workforce and Prison Services, Communities, and Safety and Operational Services, the centre delivers coordinated, person‐centred services that respond to the complex and evolving needs of the people in its care.
About The Role
As part of the Workforce and Prison Services (WPS) team, the Executive Services team is dedicated to delivering essential corporate and ancillary services support to prison operational teams and prisoners. Reporting to the Supervisor, Executive Services, this role is responsible for the development, coordination, and delivery of high‐quality, responsive internal communication services and targeted engagement activities and events across a range of projects and operational priorities within Western Plains Correctional Centre. The role will hold secretariat duties for various meetings and assist with administration tasks that support business continuity, maintain the prison's correspondence register and coordinate various staff forums.
The Executive Service Officer has an integral role in building a positive and inclusive culture, driving an engaged workforce, and embedding the core values and behaviours consistent with Western Plains Correctional Centre's mission of rehabilitation and reintegration.
Responsibilities
* Develop, coordinate and deliver high‐quality internal communication services and engagement activities.
* Maintain secretariat duties for meetings and support business continuity.
* Maintain the prison's correspondence register and coordinate staff forums.
Qualifications
* Highly developed writing and editorial skills with demonstrated ability to research and prepare engaging communications content for a variety of audiences and mediums.
* Experience in a digital communications environment with proficiency in content management of intranet portals and knowledge of contemporary design tools and software applications, including Microsoft Office 365.
* Effective consultative, verbal communication, interpersonal and stakeholder relationship management skills.
* Proven project management skills with the ability to manage competing deadlines effectively.
Important Information
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, or who are impacted by our work.
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