Vic Justice Dept in IT hiring spree
Victoria's Department of Justice flagged plans to hire a slew of senior information technology staff as it attempts to flesh out its newly restructured IT department.
The department late last year and this week advertised for more than a dozen senior roles, with responsibilities ranging through enterprise architecture strategy, application and product management, development team leadership, vendor management, overall ICT strategy management and more.
The roles have been advertised with a salary of between $89,668 and $119,995, at grade six of the Victorian public service ranking.
In the advertisements on Seek, the department revealed it had recently formed a new technology services division within its ranks, dubbed Knowledge Information and Technology Services, or KITS.
"KITS is an efficient and effective ICT service provider that is business focused, has professional partnerships, provides robust solutions, responsive services, and is supported by competent teams," the department claimed.
Justice is one of the larger departments within the Victorian public sector, responsible in an overarching sense for administration of the police and prosecution arms of government, the court system in general and corrections (prison) facilities and other miscellaneous services such as legal advice to government and emergency services. According to its website, the department collectively employs over 21,000 staff.
The news comes as Victoria's auditor-general released a report in June 2009 that found the state's project to build a new integrated court management system project had run 14 months over time and at least $12 million over budget, partly due to poor supplier performance.
Victoria Police has also been struggling with its own technology-related issues, losing its chief information officer Valda Berzins last year, with a report by the state ombudsman finding its IT division had had a "disregard for proper procurement and contract management" under the then-CIO, which saw contracts fail to go to tender while their dollar values ballooned beyond approved amounts.
ZDNet.com.au has queried about the restructure with the department and expects to update this article with further details about its plans shortly.