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Our senior management roles offer the opportunity to make a difference to Victoria and all Victorians. Rather than work for shareholders, you'll develop a better running society. In the process, you'll gain public administration and leadership skills and experience that are well respected in every business.
Our senior roles are broken into two categories: executive and non-executive. Non-executive roles are normally senior line managers, technical specialists and project managers.
Senior Appointments link on the right provides a current list of senior vacancies.
The following links provide more information on specific aspects of senior roles; just click or simply scroll down.
Profile of Executive
Women and Senior Appointments
Remuneration and Benefits
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Government Board Roles
As an Executive with the Victorian Government, you will handle high level policy advice, a variety of complex organisational and project management challenges across a diverse range of areas. You will provide frank, impartial and timely advice to Government and high quality services to the Victorian community. This will require demonstrating the public sector values of responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability respect and leadership. You will report to Ministers, department or agency heads, other senior executives, or boards of management and to the Government of the day. You will be ultimately accountable to the public as tax payers.
Executive level positions range from heads of departments (Secretaries) and agencies (CEOs) through to departmental Deputy Secretaries and Project Directors and carry a high level of responsibility for finances, resources and policy development.
The Victorian Government is strongly committed to encouraging women to apply for senior Government appointments. We have a number of initiatives in place to be sure that women are well represented among decision makers and leaders in our community, particularly in Government leadership roles.
Women are in about 35% of executive roles in the Victorian Public Service as at 30 June 2005.
Women interested in senior roles in Government can get access to resources and advice from the Office of Women's Policy in the Department of Victorian Communities. The Women's Policy office also keeps a Register (www.women.vic.gov.au) aimed at increasing the number of women on boards and committees. It has been responsible for increasing the number of women in senior Government roles to over 40% since 2001, with a broad goal of increasing that to 50%.
More informally, there are mentoring and support groups for women in senior Government roles in most agencies and departments.
People join the executive service on a fixed term contract of up to five years, though with similar conditions (i.e. leave) to non-executive level appointments. Executives are in a three Band structure, on attractive Total Remuneration Packages (TRP) (inclusive of superannuation), with access to annual adjustments and bonuses based on performance.
Working in the executive service in the public sector means you will enjoy the benefits of work/life balance, provided through family friendly and flexible work practices. It is a recognised part of our work philosophy that people have lives outside of work, and conditions and attitudes in workplaces support this.
The Executive Handbook provides contract, remuneration and employment information for executives in the Victorian Public Service and certain Government agencies.
Other senior roles are available in other classifications, for instance Senior Technical Specialist (a recognised expert in a particular field) Principal Solicitor or Principal Scientist. Salary ranges for these and other senior classifications will be shown in the position description. Some examples of other categories are shown below:
Community Corrections Officer
Regional Fisheries Manager
Victorian Public Service Officer Grade 6
Senior Technical Specialist
To find an executive role that meets your career aspirations, click on the Senior Appointments link in the box above on the right.
Senior staff in the Victorian Government are responsible for public funds and delivering on the Government's agenda. But the ultimate responsibility is to the Victorian public.
Examples of issues you could be involved in include solving Melbourne's water storage and distribution problems, negotiating with graziers on the high plains grazing rights and determining appropriate levels of land tax on business properties.
Good governance is how we describe modern public sector management, as well as the principles and standards of public behaviour that support it. Governance in the public sector is important, challenging and complex because we have to satisfy a broad range of political, economic, environmental and social objectives.
At the same time, the public sector also provides the opportunity for original thinking and planning on issues that affect the community well into the future.
Boards of management in Government play a very important role. They supervise, manage and "govern" a particular public sector agency, company or facility, or those responsible for providing Government with advice or guidance on making decisions on a particular issue.
While boards or committees may have different titles, in Government they also have different functions and modes of operation. Generally they fall into one of three categories:
• Boards of Management
• Tribunal/Registration Bodies
• Advisory Boards
These positions of responsibility will be advertised from time to time, usually in the press, and high quality expertise at a senior level is valued.
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