Manager Design

**At the**NSW Department of Education**, we educate and inspire lifelong learners - from early childhood, through schooling to vocational education and training.**
- **2x Ongoing Full-Time positions**:

- **Located in Parramatta with flexible working arrangements available**:

- **Clerk Grade 11/12 with salary ranging from $**145,378 to $** **168,130 + super and annual leave loading**:

- **We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds, people living with disability to apply**

**About the role**

The Manager, Design leads projects and colleagues to collaboratively progress system and service design, project delivery and improvement in tight timeframes. The role has a key leadership function in developing team and colleagues’ design capabilities and supporting the communication of the team’s work with stakeholders and delivery partners across government.

For further information please click here to view the role description

**About you**
- Significant experience in making design processes work effectively (in a government or similarly complex system environment), including influencing working practices, culture and decision-making
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience supporting multidisciplinary teams to align design and delivery streams
- A track record of contributing directly to service design projects while also supporting performance monitoring and reporting through milestones, metrics or delivery frameworks
- Experience working in agile, cross-functional environments and contributing to strategic design direction across programs of work
- Degree qualification in a related field, or equivalent experience in service design
- Interest or background in Education, with a focus on early childhood education and care

**Key knowledge and experience**
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the Department’s Aboriginal Education Policy and upholding the Department’s Partnership Agreement with the NSW AECG and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people
- Have significant experience of making design processes work effectively in a complex government environment, influencing working practices and culture to support this

**Essential requirements of the role**
- Degree qualification in related field or equivalent service design experience
- A valid Working With Children Check
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the value of public education

**Benefits**
- Flexible working arrangements
- 35 hour working week
- Competitive, salary sacrificing, employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
- Flex Leave entitlements, generous holidays & leave conditions
- Opportunities for advancement and mobility across the Department to support your career growth

**How to apply**

Attached a resume (maximum 5 pages) and cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements and capabilities of this role.

**This is a child-related role.**As a condition of employment you will be required to provide a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC) Clearance number (for paid employment). Visit the website for more information.

**Closing date: Thursday, 8th of May 2025 at 11:59PM**

A recruitment pool may be created through this recruitment process. A recruitment pool is a group of applicants who have been assessed and identified as suitable for this role, and who may be considered for a range of similar roles, including temporary, term or ongoing roles, over the next 18 months.