Principal Organisation Design Adviser, Capability

6 months ago

Melbourne, Australia Department of Health Full time

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Health

**Salary**: $130,673 - $174,869

Occupation: Human Resources

Reference: VG/1803277

The Department of Health plays a critical role in the Victorian health system and is responsible for shaping it to meet the health needs of all Victorians. We’re focused on supporting Victorians to be as healthy as they can; whether through alerting them to seasonal risks like thunderstorm asthma, notifying them of contact with communicable diseases, safeguarding their drinking water, developing the best health, wellbeing and care facilities in the world, being at the forefront of mental health and wellbeing treatment or accelerating medical research. It’s all part of the way we partner with the community to help every individual lead a healthy life.

**About the role**:
Do you:

- want to be involved in large scale, complex programmatic work with the potential for sector-wide change?
- excel in designing and delivering internal services and initiatives to achieve strategic outcomes?
- foster strong partnerships across diverse internal and external stakeholders to drive consensus and action?

The position of Principal Organisation Design Adviser provides support to the Manager, Design, in maintaining oversight of Design work across the Department, and to coordinate and lead responses to high priority design work that shapes the department's organisational capabilities to align with strategic objectives.

The Principal Organisation Design Adviser will lead and facilitate senior leaders and teams through both programmatic and continuous design efforts, providing expert support and guidance to ensure successful execution. The Principal Organisation Design Adviser will lead an evidence-based approach including well founded research, good practice, new and innovative developments, learning about internal and external customer experiences and viewpoints, and using systemic thinking and analysis to inform strategic design solutions and recommendations. Additionally, the Principal Organisation Design Adviser will support the Manager, Design to recommend and implement service design, ensuring that all aspects of the organization's operations are optimised for efficiency and effectiveness developing strategic recommendations or policies, and prototyping, testing and iterating the design of a structure, product, service, process or policy.

The successful applicant will forge strategic partnerships with colleagues in the rest of Capability and Development unit, Business Partners and the whole Organisational Effectiveness branch, to understand where opportunities lie for systemic, human-centred design solutions, and to deliver plans for these solutions to internal customers.

**About us**:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.

We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.

**Suitable applicants will be able to**:

- Lead strategic design efforts through evidence based analysis, advice, and facilitation to ensure alignment with the department's strategic objectives across various initiatives by:

- supporting the development of current state operating models, including governance, policies, processes, structures, systems and ways of working,
- understanding business priorities and assist in the operationalisation of organisational strategies, conduct comprehensive systemic assessments and root cause analysis of current design components and identify opportunities for strategic and continuous improvement initiatives
- develop business cases for change that align with strategic objectives, including options analysis, feasibility, cost and benefit estimation, investment logic, and benefits management planning,
- provide guidance and authoritative advice to influence stakeholders and sponsors; prepare and present detailed, comprehensive reports and change proposals and associated documentation, management reporting on complex matters
- facilitate collaboration with cross-functional reams to explore business problems, ideate opportunities, and co-design and iterate improvements and solutions through engagements designed suitably for the audience
- Provide high quality business intelligence, authoritative advice and sound policy recommendations to senior management and government based on comprehensive research.
- Oversee the development of policy and initiatives that meet government and departmental objectives within resourcing, timeline and budget parameters.
- Highly developed influencing and negotiation skills, with the ability to use direct and indirect influencing strateg

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