Specialist Compliance Officer

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

Reference: 6373

Job posted: 14/01/2025

Closes: 29/01/2025

Classification: VPSG5

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

The Land Services Group is a Group within the Department of Transport and Planning and is responsible for supporting the delivery of services and infrastructure that will help build thriving environments and communities across our state.
The Group is comprised of the Office of the Deputy Secretary and Land Use Victoria.

Land Use Victoria is responsible for providing whole of Victorian Government leadership on land information, policy, assessment, and advice, to enable government to use its land more strategically and maximise public value.
It is also responsible for managing the government's program for land administration and property information by providing innovative solutions for authoritative, comprehensive, and easily accessible services in land registration, property information, valuation, land surveying and geographic naming, land data management services and spatial mapping services.
It performs a range of statutory and non-statutory functions.
LUV also provides surveying services for major government infrastructure projects, provides all government property valuations and is responsible for all council valuations.

We're focused on outcomes that deliver more choice, connections and confidence in our travel, ensuring the whole transport network works as one to deliver better services and outcomes.

About the Role The primary purpose of the position is to provide subject matter expertise to the Compliance Team.
The role needs to develop and maintain the Compliance procedures and undertake training within the team.
It also engages with external stakeholders such as searchers, legal profession, conveyancers and banks through customer forums and industry presentations.
The position reports to Manager, Audit/Legislative Compliance in Business Services.
The Compliance team predominately focuses on Subscriber Compliance Program as part of Electronic Lodgement of conveyancing transactions.

Contribute to Land Use Victoria project initiatives; participate in business planning and implementation and make presentations to internal staff, customer forums and external stakeholders such as searchers, legal profession, conveyancers and banks. Key Skills Electronic Conveyancing Experience Experience in Audit & Compliance programs. Position Outcomes The role involves providing subject matter expertise and conducting complex compliance examinations as part of the Subscriber Compliance Program, while maintaining policies, procedures, and ensuring adherence to standards.
It also includes contributing to strategic initiatives, staff training, and fostering culturally safe environments that promote inclusivity and respect.

Key Selection Criteria Knowledge and Skills Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Contributes ideas toward improving the effectiveness of own work area; Understands and delivers against standards of quality and effectiveness applicable to own area of work; Maintains quality in the face of time pressure. Policy Design and Development: Understands the purpose of policies; Uses operational policies to guide their work; Seeks information to improve knowledge and application of policies; Contributes to and provides a support role in business case development. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Seeks resolution of problems through policy or process guidelines; Otherwise seeks guidance by providing information and ideas relevant towards resolution of problem.
Understands concepts enabling improvements in critical thinking and problem solving. Interpersonal Skills: Recognise and regulate one's emotions; understands interests and emotions of others achieve best outcomes possible in an authentic manner. Knowledge management and business continuity: Establish mechanisms to record and share knowledge and experience for business continuity and knowledge management. Project Delivery: Defines tasks to be delivered to meet agreed outcomes; Coordinates and guides others in the execution of work activities; Monitors progress of tasks against plans and takes corrective action when required. Communicate with Impact: Makes a positive impression on others and comes across with credibility; Communicates orally in a manner that is clear fluent and holds the listeners' attention; Able to deal with difficult and sensitive topics and questions. Personal Attributes Working collaboratively: Cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals; Share information and acknowledge others' efforts; Step in to help others where required. Self-awareness: Recognises own emotional responses to a range of people or events, and the impact these can have on others; Recognises that problems or challenges are a normal part of working and actions can be taken to manage them. Qualifications and Experience Sound working knowledge of the Transfer of Land Act 1958, Subdivision Act 1989 and associated Acts (Surveying Act; Water Act; Property Law Act; Administration and Probate Act; Sale of Land Act; Instruments Act; Local Government Act; Evidence Act, and Privacy and Data Protection Act), the registration of dealings and plans, and the functions and procedures of Land Registry Services is highly desirable. Sound working knowledge of Electronic Conveyancing is highly desirable. Auditing or regulatory compliance experience is highly desirable. Experience sourcing and implementing technology solutions such as robotic process automation, large language learning models and machine learning is desirable. What We Offer Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable. Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services. A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork. Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements. Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs. We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture. Culture Value We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds.
At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction.
This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

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Applications close 11.59 pm on Wednesday, 29th of January 2025.

All Applications should include a resume and a cover letter.
For further information about the role please contact Michael Debono - Manager Audit/Legislative Compliance via 0417038242 or ******.

Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks.
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