Analyst

About Us
The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone’s experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government.  We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses.  We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.  

You can find out more about our Ministers, leadership and entities here: Department of Government Services. 

The Regulatory Strategy Branch
The Regulatory Strategy Branch provides oversight, guidance and management of Consumer Affairs Victoria’s (CAV) strategic outcomes and regulatory priorities. The Regulatory Strategy Branch’s purpose is to ensure the successful delivery of these strategic outcomes and regulatory priorities and achieve high impact regulatory outcomes by overseeing strategic project delivery. The role of the team is to develop and refine CAV’s regulatory frameworks, policies, and processes.

The Regulatory Strategy team does this through three primary functions:

• Regulatory Strategy: leads the development of the CAV Regulatory Priorities and monitors, evaluates and reports on their performance. The team also develops, manages, and supports the implementation of compliance and enforcement policy, and supports critical governance functions such as the CAV committees and internal reviews of official warnings and infringements.
• Regulatory Programs: Regulatory Programs operationalise CAV’s Regulatory Priorities. Regulatory programs operate across all of CAV’s functions to coordinate and support collaboration across CAV, to align efforts and achieve our priorities. ensuring compliance and enforcement actions are align with overarching regulatory strategies and principles.
• Strategic projects and taskforces: The Taskforces are specialist teams formed to develop and implement a regulatory response to a specific sector, marketplace, or community harm, and to deliver high impact regulatory outcomes to affect meaningful change. Taskforces are multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams, which combine all of CAV’s skills to focus on achieving targeted objectives.

About the Role
Reporting to the Principal Intelligence Analyst, the Taskforce Intelligence Analyst undertakes a range of data and information analysis tasks and projects, with the objective of producing intelligence outputs to further support CAV’s strategic and operational needs. Intelligence Analysts will use and draw on intelligence capabilities to identify and analyse emerging threats, opportunities, patterns, and trends, as well as root causes and possible compliance and enforcement approaches.

Key Accountabilities

• Undertake data and information analysis to produce intelligence outputs that inform compliance decision making, and operational planning within the function of the Taskforce.
• Contribute to environmental scanning efforts and produce risk-based analyses and reports on current and emerging renting issues.
• Undertakes the production of operational and tactical intelligence to support Taskforce initiated compliance and enforcement activities and outcomes.
• Contribute to positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to promote information sharing and support the continuous improvement of intelligence products.
• Undertake projects and activities to monitor, review and continuously improve the Taskforce’s intelligence capability, including data and information analysis processes, systems, and outputs.
• Work collaboratively with other members of the Taskforce’s intelligence team, to provide peer review and quality assurance for intelligence tasking and contribute to high quality intelligence outputs.

Desirable requirements

• Relevant experience in an intelligence or regulatory setting would be an advantage.
• Tertiary qualifications in intelligence would be desirable but not mandatory.
  
  

This is an ongoing position. This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.

For more information, please see the Position Description.

How to apply 

Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on Monday, 27 July 2026. All applications should include: 

• a resume; and  
• a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages).

Other relevant information
To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident.  Preferred applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment screening. DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.