Strategy Manager, Impact

1 week ago

Greater Adelaide SA, Australia CSIRO Full time

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**The opportunity**:

- **Develop and implement methodologies to drive research impact**:

- **Lead innovation planning and best-practice adoption**:

- **Join CSIRO - Australia's National Science Agency**

We are seeking an experienced Strategy Manager, Impact to integrate impact and strategic design methodologies into CSIRO's research.

As the Strategy Manager, you will develop and implement strategies for the incorporation of impact, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), and strategic design methodologies into the organisation's institutional design and research portfolio arrangements. You will facilitate workshops to design and plan innovative, impact-driven research initiatives and lead change management processes to promote best-practice impact focused approaches. Drawing on your ability to foster effective relationships, you will collaborate with experts across the organisation such as CSIRO researchers, and mentor junior staff.

**Your duties will include**:

- Drawing on the CSIRO Impact Framework, build and implement strategies and methodologies for the incorporation of impact, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), and strategic design methodologies into the organisation's institutional design and research portfolio arrangements.
- Developing and facilitating workshops and design sprints to help define impact-driven research problems and plan new research programs.
- Designing and deploying complementary change management processes to ensure best practice impact and design approaches are adopted across the organisation.
- Engaging with internal and external best-in-class practitioners in impact, MEL and strategic design to incorporate new methodologies and frameworks into organisational methodology and program design processes.
- Engaging effectively across the organisation to build working relationships, form communities of practice, and upskill colleagues.
- Advocating for impact and design-led approaches, internally and in the national innovation system.
- Building organisational impact capacity and maturity, and collaborate across broader Strategy unit to integrate impact practices into the enterprise strategy.

**Location**:Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, Newcastle

**Salary**:AU$131k - AU$153k plus 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure**:Indefinite, Full-time

**Reference**:99212

**To be considered you will need**:

- Relevant degree in conjunction with demonstrated achievement in senior advisory and managerial roles in impact planning, ideally with postgraduate managerial qualifications.
- Demonstrated experience of establishing and leading cooperative, regionally dispersed teams, and a record of leadership which encourages new ideas, builds trust and supports the development of emerging skills.
- A history of professional and respectful behaviours and attitudes aligned to CSIRO values in a complex working environment.
- Proven ability to foster effective relationships, using complex influencing strategies to ensure alignment between participants and collaborator needs, and CSIRO’s objectives.
- Superior interpersonal, coaching, systems thinking, written and verbal communication, negotiation and consultative skills at all levels but particularly in relation to advising and guiding senior business leaders.
- Demonstrated history of anticipating and successfully managing complex problems in ambiguous situations.
- A significant record of innovation and creativity plus the ability and willingness to incorporate and/or promote the inclusion of novel ideas and approaches into projects of all sizes and scale.
- Demonstrated experience in successful project management, including planning, engagement, monitoring and reporting to meet or exceed specified outcomes and timeframes

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

**Eligibility**:
**Flexible working arrangements**:
We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

**Diversity and inclusion**:
We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish.

**About CSIRO**:
At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact.

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