Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: VG/TBC-RPO-AUG26

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

- Provide administration, logistics and project support to recruitment Talent Partners.
- Ongoing Full time chance, working alongside a high performing team with great culture.
- VPS grade 3 - $81,496 - $98,955 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety, is seeking a Recruitment Projects Officer to provide a critical role within Recruitment Services.

About the Business Unit

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS) provides a range of government programs and services which focus on improving community safety, victim services, regulatory services and crime prevention, and building strong collaboration across the justice system.

The People, Safety, Culture (PSC) group supports the department in workplace culture and people matters, including strategic communications,



human resource policy and strategy; organisational culture and change; recruitment and retention; performance and development; pay, benefits and workforce reporting; safety and wellbeing; workplace relations; and employee conduct.

PSC promotes a culture to engage and develop the workforce, providing every person with the opportunity to unlock and achieve their potential.

The Recruitment Services and Talent Programs team provides expert advice and support to the department on all recruitment related matters, including attraction, selection, redeployment and other recruitment and retention practices. Recruitment Services delivers consultative, progressive, innovative, fair and ethical recruitment solutions. Recruitment Services delivers consultative, progressive, innovative, fair, and ethical recruitment solutions

About the Role

The Recruitment Projects Officer provides administration, logistics and project support to the recruitment Talent Partners. The Recruitment Projects Officer is accountable for database administration, processing candidate paperwork, coordinating pre-employment medicals and other relevant recruitment administration tasks as directed by the Assistant Managers and Manager, Talent and Executive Recruitment.

Some of your duties will include:

- Support the Talent Partners and Senior Talent Partners to deliver the required hiring
- Coordinate the delivery of recruitment administration and logistics support services across all recruitment services activity




- Ensure all candidate contact occurs in a timely manner so that candidates continuously move through the recruitment funnel and have a positive candidate experience

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Strong administration and customer service experience working in a fast-paced recruitment function.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage conflicting priorities to maintain service delivery and meet business requirements.

Qualifications/requirements

- A relevant tertiary qualification is desirable.

The successful candidate willbe requiredto undergo pre-employment checkswhich mayincludereference checks,nationally coordinated criminal historychecks(NCCHC),andmisconduct screening. Dependant on the role, other checks may includeVicRoadschecks,driverslicencechecks, medicalchecks, Working with ChildrenChecks, a ndDeclaration of Private Interests (for executive and responsible officer roles).

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.

Applications close Sunday 6 September 2026 at 11.59pm

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📌 Recruitment Projects Officer (Melbourne)
🏢 State Government Of Victoria, Australia
📍 Melbourne