Passionate about project support and ready to assist key strategic initiatives for student behaviour? Join us as a Senior Project Officer!
We're seeking a dedicated and proactive Senior Project Officer to support the strategic delivery of key initiatives under Behaviour, Student Support. This role provides essential operational, project and administrative support to a large and fast-paced team and is critical in ensuring the smooth coordination of day-to-day activities.
The successful applicant will undertake and coordinate administrative functions, including procurement and financial processes, travel arrangements, and asset management.

Job details

About the Department:

The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

About the Role:

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys variety in their work, and has strong attention to detail.

This is a temporary full-time position until 30 June 2027, unless otherwise determined. The base location of this role is Central Office, Brisbane.

The successful applicant will:

• Undertake specialist project activities to achieve the outcomes expected of the project.
• Oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of program plans and phases, including the coordination of the various activities associated with achieving the project objectives.

Responsibilities Include:

The Senior Project Officer has responsibility for the following:

• Undertake and participate in designated project and organisational change activities.
• Resolve problems and assist in the development and implementation of initiatives, plans, policies, procedures, processes and systems for effective and efficient administration of departmental services.
• Assist in coordinating the development and implementation of plans, policies and procedures and in managing processes.
• Closely monitor project timeframes and report any potential slippages.
• Provide clear and regular reporting to senior officers and other staff within the division on project progress or other agreed key performance indicators to assist in monitoring and decision making.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with all relevant stakeholders.
• Attend meetings with departmental officers to discuss, evaluate and revise plans, systems and procedures.
• Regularly disseminate information to all departmental staff on significant departmental initiatives relating to the intent and purpose of the activities of the unit.
• Other suitable duties, consistent with the duties and responsibilities of the position as directed by the supervisor or nominated delegate.

The Senior Project Officer reports to the Principal Advisor, Student Support within Schools and Student Support.

Interested? To Apply: 

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history);
• A maximum 2-page written response outlining your suitability for the role in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. 

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department. 

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted. 

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

For a full list of the position responsibilities and mandatory requirements, please ensure you download the attached role description and candidate information fact sheet and follow the instructions.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• CO644686_25T - Role Description (PDF, 236KB)
  Role Description
  
  Applicant Information Package (PDF, 245KB)
  Information Package for Applicants