Manager Service Programs Futures

**Job Number**:
979160

**Work type**:
Fixed Term Contract

**Location**:
Melbourne - Docklands

**Categories**:
Environment, Management, Other, Planning

**Who we are**:
In Melbourne, water is essential to our way of life.

As caretakers for Melbourne’s water cycle, we care for water, life and land throughout Melbourne: both its people and its biodiversity.

Each time you drink from the tap, flush a toilet, run through a yard sprinkler, or kayak down the Yarra—we’re there. Primed and ready, quietly delivering some of the world’s cleanest water for over five million residents and wildlife that call Melbourne home —just as we have for over 130 years.

If you value making it count, diving in with curiosity, and doing what’s right, you're in the right place.

**About the Role**:
This six month fixed term contract will be reporting to the Reporting to Senior Manager Waterways Drainage & Catchments. This role supports Melbourne Water to plan and implement programs to deliver on commitments in the Healthy Waterways Strategy. The role leads programs for stormwater quality, stream naturalisation and land activation outcomes and develops capital works, maintenance programs and works with our community and stakeholders to identify partnerships and impactful grants. In planning these programs, consideration will need to be given to the impacts of climate change and urban growth.

This will be achieved through:

- Developing future focussed 5 to 10 year investment plans for waterway services across the greater Melbourne region consistent with the Healthy Waterways Strategy and Waterways and Drainage Investment Plan.
- Developing management regimes that will protect and enhance, the social and environmental condition and function of waterway assets
- Understanding the implications of climate change and urban growth and embedding appropriate measures into future plans.
- Leading co-delivery partnerships (including service design, co-funding and co-delivery) with key stakeholders and community.
- Leading the implementation of an asset management approach for the waterways network including the development of asset management plans.

For more information please review the Role Mandate: Role Mandate - Manager Service Programs Futures.pdf

**About you**:

- Experience in waterway and natural asset management
- Experience and knowledge of asset management processes, risk assessment and management techniques, and project and program management.
- Demonstrated experience in developing complex programs and capability to evaluate options and proposals
- Strong financial and commercial acumen skills to control, budget and forecast expenditure
- Ability to lead change and communicate with a diverse range of stakeholders
- High level communication, relationship management, negotiation and influencing skills
- Professional Leadership mind-set and behaviour
- Tertiary degree in science or environmental engineering or discipline field

**Why join us**:
At Melbourne Water, we care about water and all life that springs from it.

Our people are fuelled by passion, and with safety at the forefront, we have an unwavering sense of purpose, and are on a mission to protect every Melburnian’s way of life, one drop at a time.

We walk the talk when it comes to flexible working - but that’s not all. Our culture of purpose, safety, results, and learning permeates everything we do. We're dedicated to doing what's right, and this commitment extends to the meaningful work we do in a supportive and inclusive culture that encourages you to make the most of your talents.

**How to Apply**:
Closing date: Wednesday the 23rd of October at 11:55pm AEST

**Advertised**:
07 Oct 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time

**Closing**:
23 Oct 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time