Manager OHS Services, South Western Victoria Region

Key Selection Criteria

1.      `Victorian Public Sector Values as detailed in DE Values section

2.      `Leadership' and `People Management as detailed in the Required Capabilities section

3.      `Specialist Expertise in OHS as detailed in the Required Capabilities section  

4.      'Relationship Building' as detailed in the Required Capabilities section 

5.      'Planning and Organising' as detailed in the Required Capabilities section 

Key accountabilities

Delivery of core OHS Services business 

•         Ensuring the outputs and outcomes for the Statewide OHS Services Team are identified and successfully delivered
•         Ensuring Statewide OHS Services Team performance goals and targets are developed, communicated, understood and met
•         Ensuring the OHS service provided by the team complies with relevant legislation and statutory obligations 
•         Collaboration and partnerships within and across teams are established to deliver on core business of OHS Services

Direction setting and supervision

•         Establish and maintain a safe and healthy workplace which conforms to compliance standards, and supports responsible workplace behaviours
•         Model Victorian Public Sector Values
•         Provide employees with the leadership, information and guidance required to achieve outcomes and to ensure that these meet compliance requirements

Recruitment and Staff development

•         Undertake staff recruitment and selection to meet workforce needs according to HR and merit processes
•         Identify staff development needs and support and encourage staff to meet their professional goals
•         Assist staff in the practical application of new skills and knowledge

Individual performance management

•         Clearly define staff roles and performance expectations
•         Conduct performance appraisals
•         Provide support through timely resolution of professional issues and problems

Team effectiveness management

•         Establish and maintain a resilient, diverse and high performing team
•         Establish and maintain a collaborative and effective workplace 
•         Establish and maintain a safe and healthy workplace which conforms to compliance standards is established and maintained

Expert OHS advice and leadership

•         Provide expert OHS advice to schools, regional partners and key department stakeholders, including executive leaders
•         Lead and supervise provision of OHS advice and emergency management planning tasks

OHS policy implementation

•         Implement or support strategic OHS and change initiatives
•         Provide information and advice to the Statewide Systems and Support team on recommendations for changes to OHS policies and procedures

Financial authorisation 

•         Exercise the duties in accordance with the approved position (as a financial delegate) as authorised under Direction 2.4 of the Standing Directions of the Minister for Finance 
•         Approve financial obligations (expenditure and commitment) for the appropriate transaction type and value as authorised under Direction 2.4
•         Ensure that the purchasing rules and principles of procurement have been followed as per departmental procurement policies

Required capabilities

Specialist Expertise in OHS

•         Sound technical health safety and wellbeing knowledge with significant understanding of relevant legislation and codes
•         Knowledge of contemporary health, safety and wellbeing theory and practice
•         Ability to act as a coach or mentor to own staff and colleagues to support and improve their OHS practice, professional development and work effectiveness

Leadership

•         Experience in leading health, safety and wellbeing initiatives as part of central and local leadership teams
•         Motivates others to deliver on goals and objectives
•         Builds team commitment by demonstrating personal conviction
•         Translates organisational strategy into meaningful long-term plans and objectives for own area of responsibility

People Management

•         Maximises effectiveness by selecting, developing, managing and motivating a high performing team
•         Aligns team with the organisational values and goals through effective people management and modelling
•         Ensures staff are effectively deployed through effective workforce planning practices
•         Clearly defines role expectations, monitors performance, provides timely and constructive feedback and facilitates employee development

Influence and Negotiation

•         Builds behind-the-scenes support for ideas to ensure buy-in and ownership
•         Gains agreement to proposals and ideas
•         Involves experts or other third parties to strengthen a case
•         Uses chains of indirect influence to achieve outcomes (e.g. Gets A to show B so B will tell C)

Planning and Organising

•         Establishes systems and procedures to guide work and track progress
•         Identifies processes, tasks and resources required to achieve a goal
•         Recognises actual and potential barriers and finds effective ways to deal with them
•         Sets clearly defined objectives and priorities and operates accordingly, reviewing and adjusting as required

Results Orientation

•         Ensures the team understands and takes ownership of work to execute the organisation's vision and strategy
•         Sets and achieves ambitious goals for themselves and for their team
•         Harnesses others' energy and diverse skills in achieving results
•         Displays a strong improvement orientation by removing barriers to staff and organisational performance
•         Perseveres when the 'going gets tough' and in the face of resistance or setbacks

Conceptual and Analytical Ability

•         Deals with concepts, ambiguity and complexity comfortably
•         Makes sound and timely decisions balancing judgement, analysis and intuition
•         Uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems

Personal qualities

Developing Others

•         Actively seeks to improve others skills and talents by providing constructive feedback, coaching and training opportunities
•         Appropriately delegates responsibilities to further the development of others
•         Empowers others by investing them with the authority and latitude to accomplish tasks

Flexibility

•         Accepts changed priorities without undue discomfort
•         Adaptable
•         Open to new ideas
•         Recognises the merits of different options and acts accordingly

Customer Focus

•         Actively seeks to meet customer needs
•         Committed to delivering high quality outcomes for clients
•         Listens to customers
•         Seeks ways to improve services

Relationship Building

•         Builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication
•         Establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels
•         Forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations
•         Minimises surprises
•         Promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements
•         Proven ability to build positive and productive relationships with principals, school leaders and staff in complex areas (or local leaders and staff in other workplaces)

Qualifications

Essential: Relevant qualification in Occupational Health and Safety or equivalent professional experience