Manager, Portfolio Facilities and Leasing

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

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

Occupation: Other

Reference: 4253

**About the Role**
The Department of Transport and Planning is seeking a Manager for Portfolio Facilities and Leasing within the Accommodation and Workplace Services branch. This key leadership role focuses on facilities management, leasing activities, and oversight of key workplace contracts across the State. Responsibilities include aligning leasing and facilities activities with accommodation strategies, ensuring operational efficiency, and leading a team to provide specialist advice to various stakeholders. The role requires compliance with legislation, best practices, and financial management, as well as implementing governance frameworks to manage risk and service delivery. Additionally, the Manager will oversee key contracts, including the workplace solutions contract at the Ringwood site, and lead agency staff attached to these contracts. If you have a passion for facilities management and strong leadership skills, we encourage you to apply.

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**Position Outcomes / Accountabilities**
- Lead the delivery of leasing and facilities activities in alignment with the Department’s accommodation strategy and ensure the effective management of DTP’s operational property portfolio to improve operational and financial efficiency, to improve asset performance.
- Provide professional and expert advice and support in relation to DTP’s operational property portfolio, including lease management, in accordance with relevant legislation, budgetary and financial management practices and governance frameworks such as the Asset Management Assurance Framework (AMAF).
- Identify risks and issues, make recommendations and prepare professional briefs, business cases and advice which support timely decision making and reporting of risks.
- Develop and maintain highly constructive relationships, working collaboratively with clients, business partners, Transport entities, internal and other stakeholders, in particular the Department of Treasury and Finance’s Shared Service Provider.
- Provide effective strategic, tactical and financial operations across the team, including financial management, resource management, compliance and risk management; decision-making and governance frameworks; and innovation and business improvements.

**Key Selection Criteria** - This leadership role involves overseeing facilities management, leasing activities, and key workplace contracts across the State. You will align these activities with accommodation strategies and manage complex property portfolios, particularly within the government sector.

**Qualifications and Experience**
**Mandatory**
- Significant people leadership experience.

**Desirable**
- Experience in facilities management and lease management across a complex portfolio
- Experience in compliance management, within in a government environment.

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable.
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Service.
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork.
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements.
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture.

**Culture Value**
We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

**How to Apply