Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

Reference: VG/DE/PES/1952409

The Manager, eduSafe Plus sits within the Statewide OHS Services Branch, which supports Victorian schools to manager occupational health and safety risks, and strengthen health and safety capability. The Manager is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the delivery, ongoing development and continuous improvement of eduSafe Plus, a key departmental system supporting the reporting and management of health, safety and wellbeing across Victorian government schools.
The role leads and develops a multidisciplinary team to ensure effective service delivery, system performance and ongoing enhancements that respond to the needs of schools and the department. Through robust stakeholder management and relationship building, the Manager works across business and technical areas to support system sustainability, improvement and change.

About the Department

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration, providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems.

About the Division

The Employee Safety Wellbeing Division helps create safe, healthy, respectful, and inclusive working environments. The Division's teams span from prevention to response and recovery, strategy, advice and support, adopting a holistic approach to supporting our workforce's health, safety and wellbeing across schools and central and regional offices, including Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Workers' Compensation policy advice.

The division objectives are:

- promote positive wellbeing in working environments,



and prevent known and expected risks to health, safety, and wellbeing.
- respond and manage potential issues as they emerge and prevent injuries, including supporting employees to recover from injury and illness and return to work.
- promote respectful and inclusive workplaces that uphold equal opportunity and prevent discrimination, bullying, harassment, and sexual harassment.
- promote human rights and workforce diversity and inclusion

About the Role

The Manager, eduSafe Plus is a key leadership role within the department's OHS Services Branch, responsible for leading the operational delivery, ongoing development and continuous improvement of digital systems, including eduSafe Plus and Chemwatch. The role also has responsibility for some data monitoring and evaluation activities.

eduSafe Plus is the department's digital system supporting Victorian government schools to report and manage health and safety incidents, hazards, sick bay and first aid events. It also has functionality for OHS and worker's compensation management in department workplaces. Chemwatch is the department's free and preferred chemical management system available to department staff to manage and record dangerous goods and hazardous substances.

The eduSafe Plus team's functions extend to building capability of end users with the department's digital system, by providing advice, support,



instruction and training and providing insights on the data captured by relevant systems.

Reporting to the Assistant Director, OHS Services Branch, you will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for supporting the effective operation and ongoing development of eduSafe Plus, including ensuring system sustainability and exploring potential innovations.

You will oversee service delivery, system performance and improvement priorities, working closely with business and technical partners to identify, prioritise and deliver system enhancements and change.

A key focus of the role will also be leading data analytics to better understand performance, identify trends, opportunities for improvement, and provide meaningful insights to support decision making.

You will be an experienced people and service leader who can operate effectively in a complex environment, build strong relationships and translate business and user needs into practical improvements.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

- leading and developing a multidisciplinary team responsible for the delivery and ongoing improvement of eduSafe Plus
- overseeing the day-to-day delivery, performance and sustainability of the eduSafe Plus service
- leading programs, projects and innovations relevant to the digital systems, including the identification and prioritisation of system enhancements and working with business and technical partners to successfully deliver improvements and change
- leading data analytics, monitoring and evaluation activities to assess performance, identify trends and inform service and system improvements
- providing high-quality advice, analysis, briefings and recommenda

📌 Technology Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Victorian Government
📍 Melbourne