Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (SQCC) is located in Spring Creek, approximately 17 kms from the township of Gatton in the Lockyer Valley. The centre provides high security secure placement accommodation for sentenced and remand women that are classified as high or low security. Women who enter the criminal justice system often come from lives characterised by sexual, emotional and physical abuse, domestic and family violence, substance addiction and mental health problems.

QCS provides a gender-responsive, trauma-informed approach to managing women with the goal of offering an opportunity to truly rehabilitate and escape the cycle that led to crime. It is important to recognise that to change a woman is to change a generation.

Job details

About the Role

In this role you will assist in the leadership and expertise in performance, financial management and corporate governance activities. You will actively participate in the management of key relationships and agreements/contracts of a business nature to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of business services in a Correctional Centre.

The primary accountabilities of the Senior Advisor Business Services include:

• Assist with the provision of high-level business management analysis and advice to centre management enabling them to deliver quality, cost effective services that are consistent with Agency strategic and operational objectives.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of appropriate reporting systems and processes to facilitate effective performance, financial and resource management.
• Monitor and report on centre performance against key indicators, ensuring that effective internal controls and risk management processes are in place for the centre to provide a high level of assurance to centre management on the integrity of reported information.
• Provide financial and activity-based information and respond to requests for information by appropriately gathering and sourcing information for analysis, completing analysis (including variance analysis), providing technical advice and producing reports.
• Manage the performance appraisal and development of staff in conjunction with other centre managers and develop and foster a working environment which is motivated, productive, and committed to service delivery as well as compliant with quality human resource management.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the Centres Business Services areas
• Supervision of general business services staff
• Maintain high level knowledge of the Centres Business Services and Corporate systems.
• Review and evaluate administrative systems and recommend improvements to increase their efficiency and effectiveness.
• Liaise with the General Manager and other members of the senior management team and provide advice on the administrative aspects of the facility's operations.
• Monitor the financial performance of the Centre and provide advice to the Correctional Manager, Business Services regarding significant variances to budget.
• Monitor and coordinate Business Services functions including external service providers of goods and services to the Centre.
• Assist with the develop and write business cases and funding submissions to reflect the needs of the centre.
• Assist with management of agreements / contracts of suppliers to the centre.

The role description provides the minimum requirements for the role. The incumbent may be required to undertake other duties as required outside of these primary accountabilities.

Further information

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Documents

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• 706779 26 - Applicant Information Guide (PDF, 957KB)
  
  
  706779 26 - Role Description (PDF, 572KB)