Transformation Lead

**Transformation Lead**:
**Job no**: 499179
**Work type**: Permanent Full Time
**Classification**: Band 8 ($115,035 - $127,911 pa)
**Categories**: Business Strategy & Improvement

**About the role**
In this role, you will recommend strategic transformation solutions while ensuring alignment with the City’s interests, policies, and statutory requirements. You will lead large-scale projects, driving innovation and best practices to enhance customer and community satisfaction, while fostering collaboration across departments. Additionally, you’ll mentor and guide teams, developing tools and frameworks that support change initiatives and improve performance, with a strong focus on customer-first outcomes.

**Work type: Permanent Full Time. Part Time may be considered.**
**Classification**: Band 8 ($115,035 - $127,911 pa plus super)

Key responsibilities include:

- Recommend professional transformation and strategy advice or solutions with various stakeholders according to the Business Plan, the City’s interests, legislation, policy, and statutory requirements.
- Research and analyse with confidence, delivering impactful solutions for key stakeholders.
- Facilitate innovation and best practice approach and coaching for the department and push the boundaries of what is possible in delivering services for customer and community satisfaction.
- Reinforce the team’s common goals and key priorities by involving relevant stakeholders and team members in decision making.
- Mentor and guide team members in building professional competence and collective knowledge.
- Monitor, report, and utilise accurate data to track work progress and improvements against plans and budgets.
- Implement systems, processes, and workflows to deliver results, ensuring relevant policies, governance mechanisms, and regulations are adhered to.

**About you**
To be successful in this role, you will have a tertiary qualification in business, strategy, partnership management, business analytics, commerce or related discipline and extensive experience in a similar position.

Essential Experience:

- Leadership experience in leading strategy and organisational effectiveness in a comparable organisation.
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and practices related to strategy and transformation, ensuring compliance and effective strategy implementation.
- Strong people skills for collaborating with and influencing stakeholders, including managing and engaging with senior stakeholders.
- Effective writing, presentation, and speaking skills for aligning with stakeholders, securing support, and presenting information clearly and persuasively.
- Proven leadership abilities to motivate and guide teams, foster a positive work culture, and drive successful outcomes.
- Experience in facilitating workshops, influencing senior stakeholders, and managing projects, including the use of technology for effective presentations and communications.

**Child Safety Responsibilities**
We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

**Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong**
Join the City of Greater Geelong, a community-focused workplace on Wadawurrung Country. We deliver over 130 services to our growing population, striving to make our city a great place to live, work, and study. Our central location for Central Geelong-based employees is the Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal, a modern, sustainable, and inclusive workplace, along with our outreach locations.

We support accessibility and encourage discussions about any adjustments or support you may need during the recruitment process.

**Applications and Enquiries**
- We collect demographic data to help us learn who our advertisements are reaching and how we can reach an even more diverse audience. We are committed to building a more diverse team. Your responses to our demographic questions are strictly confidential and will not be individually shared._

**Advertised**: 09 Oct 2024 7:30 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 24 Oct 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time