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Senior Project Officer, Governance and Integrity

• Salary: $109,730 to $132,764 (Plus Superannuation)
• Fixed term role: to 19 November 2025 (Parental Leave replacement)
• Usual hours of work: Full time (flexibility may be available)
• Usual work location: 121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne CBD (flexibility may be available)

The Role
The Senior Project Officer, Governance and Integrity, role is responsible for the development and implementation of integrity and/or governance policies and projects to support the Victorian sport and active recreation sector to be well-governed, safe, welcoming and inclusive.
This role is responsible for developing and implementing policies and projects that identify sustainable initiatives to strengthen sport governance and/or enhance integrity practices of the Victorian community sport and active recreation sector, promoting appropriate standards of behaviour across the state. The Senior Project Officer is also responsible for effectively managing key relationships with policy makers, subject matter experts and sector organisations.
Key accountabilities:

• Ensure the effective delivery of key governance and/ or integrity policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to strengthen the Victorian sport and active recreation sector.
• Work collaboratively across the sector to increase knowledge and capability of organisations to appropriately manage integrity threats through education and awareness, and/ or to implement strong governance policies and processes. This may include working with key stakeholders such as Sport Integrity Australia, the Australian Sports Commission and the Commission for Children and Young People to ensure the sport and active recreation sector is up to date on relevant standards, policies, practices and legislation.
• Coordinate SRV's governance and/ or integrity functions, including engagement with external and inter-departmental integrity focused agencies and subject matter experts, and internal and external reporting requirements.
• Provide authoritative, timely and accurate advice on governance and/ or integrity matters such as member protection, child safety, board quotas or anti-doping to departmental staff, agencies and stakeholders. This includes preparation and presentation of reports, Ministerial briefs, cabinet and agency submissions as required.

The Team
The position of Senior Project Officer forms a part of the Sport and Recreation Victoria branch with the Sport and Experience Economy Group.
Sport and Recreation Victoria maximises the economic and social benefits provided to all Victorians by:

• ensuring greater access and opportunities for participation in sport and recreation by all Victorians
• maintaining Victoria's reputation as Australia's leading state for sporting and major events
• ensuring Victoria continues to be the home of the sport and recreation industries and administration
• developing and improving the quality of community sport and recreation facilities
• investing in major sports facilities to support high performance pathways
• strengthening the capacity of sport and recreation organisations
• continuing a robust evidence base for activities in the sport and active recreation system
• reinforcing the enriching role that sport and recreation plays in people's lives.

About You
The person appointed will be a self-motivated team player who is passionate about safe, inclusive and ‘fair sport' and enjoys the challenges of implementing a change agenda. They will also have strong knowledge of sport governance and/ or integrity.
Further Information
For a confidential discussion, please contact Mark Simpson, Group Manager, Sector Development, on 0437 683 222 / mark.simpson@ecodev.vic.gov.au.
The department is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation. We have zero tolerance of child abuse and are committed to taking the necessary steps to protect children from harm by adopting a preventative, proactive and participatory approach to child safety in accordance with the Child Safe Standards.
Successful candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Records Check prior to commencing employment with the Department. For further information on the position, please refer to the attached position description.
Please note: We are accredited as a Disability Confident Recruitment (DCR) organisation and committed to inclusive recruitment. If you require an adjustment to participate in any stage of the recruitment process or have a particular requirement to be communicated with by either telephone or email only, please notify the DJSIR Recruitment Team at recruitment@ecodev.vic.gov.au with the position number in the subject line. For additional contact details for our team please review the attached Position Description, located under Job Attachments in the right hand menu.
How to Apply

For all “JSE eligible” candidates, please apply through the JSE only to be considered for this position. Priority consideration applies to Victorian Public Service (VPS) and select employees of the Victorian Public Sector who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) jobs board platform.
Applications close at 23:59pm on 27 October 2024.