State Government of Victoria, Australia - Senior Technical Analyst

Organisation:
Victorian School Building Authority

Occupation:
Asset Management and Planning

Reference:
VG/DE/VSBA/1837861

Job posted:
24/12/2024

Closes:
07/01/2025

Classification:
VPSG5

Job duration:
2 Years

Salary Range:
$109,730 - $132,764

About the Department

The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives.
It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society.

About the Victorian School Building Authority

The Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) is part of the Department of Education.
Established in 2016, it oversees Victoria's largest school building program since the state introduced free public education in the 1870s.
The VSBA upgrades and expands existing schools and plans, designs and builds new schools to meet enrolment demand.
We also support schools to maintain their buildings and grounds by offering expert advice and coordinating maintenance programs and grants.

About the Division

The Strategy and Planning Division is responsible for the VSBA's operating framework, investment strategy, policy setting, asset information management, budget strategy and coordination, along with the delivery of specific school strategies, costings, allocate resources for growth, maintenance, and projects through school application-based programs.
The Division also plans and coordinates delivery of new early childhood facilities and support for the wider early childhood sector to build, improve and upgrade infrastructure through a number of grants programs, including programs which provide funding to make kindergartens inclusive for children of all abilities.

The Asset Planning Branch designs and delivers school-level infrastructure strategies, manages a number of school application-based and maintenance funding programs, allocates relocatable buildings to address enrolment growth in existing schools, conducts cost analysis of potential school infrastructure projects, and maintains our asset data and management system for school buildings.

About the Role

The Senior Technical Analyst is responsible for updating, reviewing, and providing quality assurance for datasets relating to the school asset management plans.
Further aspects of the role will also include analysing and reviewing a wider range of datasets, producing reports, dashboards, insights and complimentary information to support development of strategies and systems relating to use of school asset data.
The Senior Technical Analyst actively works with a wide range of internal and external customers and requires a high level of technical skills, professionalism, initiative and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing, building and maintaining various data templates and reporting tools to enable and support data updates
• Lead the extraction, cleansing, updating and analysis of multiple datasets and data models- internal and external to the unit
• Providing quality assurance for all asset related drawings to ensure that the drawings meet all the data quality guidelines
• Lead and define new process improvement opportunities to support continuous improvement and business outcomes relating to the Student Resource Package, Capacity Model and the teams Asset Information Management System (AIMS)
• Provide training, technical advice, and support in the development of reporting solutions in both BAU and project capacity
• Engage effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders regarding specific requests for information, while managing expectations and outcomes and developing high quality solutions
• Lead implementation and provide Quality Assurance of reporting tools, including tools for report-generation and self-service analytics
• Analysing and assessing issues, identifying and recommending options through the application of appropriate research techniques and methodologies

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:

Tertiary qualifications in Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Building, Construction, Statistics or a related field is essential.

Further Information

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.
The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page.

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks.
Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Applications close 11:
59pm January 7th, 2025.

To apply for this role, you will be redirected to the Victorian School Building Authority job application system.