Manager Climate, Waste

**Manager Climate, Waste & Integrated Transport**:

- Environment, Recreation & Infrastructure
- Full time
- Closing on: Apr 30 2025
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- Position Description

Are you an outcome-driven senior leader, experienced in leading a multidisciplinary and high performing team to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes for the community?

**About Us**:
We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do**:Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**, **Customer Experience** and **Results Matter**.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving - and excited about our future - as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

**About the Role**:
Reporting to the Director Environment, Recreation and Infrastructure, this role leads the delivery of services in the areas of integrated transport and traffic, waste, and environmental sustainability. Experienced in leading a high performing multi-disciplinary team, you will facilitate a positive team culture to deliver on key outcomes for the circular economy, waste reform and active transport.

The role will build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Councillors and government departments, to enhance collaboration and create partnership opportunities. A key component of the role is also to act as a project sponsor for several transport infrastructure projects to ensure great community outcomes.

If you are passionate about driving long term sustainable outcomes and delivering great customer service, this role could be for you

**To thrive in this position, you will need**:

- Proven experience in senior leadership roles that have delivered change and improvement to organisational performance.
- Experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams to achieve excellence, coaching to build and develop team capabilities, and the ability to create an environment where staff feel involved, valued, and clear on shared goals.
- An ability to build and sustain strong relationships with key agencies, other government departments and stakeholders within a complex government environment and with political astuteness that support excellent outcomes for community.
- A customer focused mindset with the ability to deliver outcome-based projects for the community as well as manage day-to-day service delivery.
- Tertiary qualifications in a discipline related to the service areas. Leadership qualifications will be highly regarded.

**Mandatory pre-employment requirements**:

- Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check.
- Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check.

**What we can offer you in return**:

- A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year.
- Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts.
- Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive.
- A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach.
- Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel.
- A Green Money program, that rewards our staff for taking simple everyday steps to a more substantiable and climate aware living.

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

**How to apply**:

- To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Profile.
- If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed contact.

**Applications close**: COB Wednesday 30 April 2025
- Bayside City Council prides itself on its values of _**_Respect Each Other_**_, _**_Own It_**_, _**_Work Together_**_ and _**_Find Better Ways_**_._
- Bayside City Council proudly acknowledges the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land, and we pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging as well as all Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community members with us today._