Manager Learning and Organisational Development

**Manager Learning and Organisational Development**:
**Job no**: 499388
**Work type**: Permanent Full Time
**Classification**: SPL
**Categories**: Human Resources

**About the role**
In this role, you will be responsible for driving thought leadership and strategically curate and deliver enterprise-wide capability-building initiatives in leadership, culture, training, and compliance, while leading the Learning and Organisational Development team to drive Leadership, Culture, Inclusion, and Diversity initiatives.

In this role, you will also be leading our new Values Refresh project, to ensure that our culture is enabling us to deliver on the City ‘s organisation strategy, supporting our aspiration to become the highest performing Local Government in Australia and to become an extraordinary employer.

**Work type: Permanent Full Time**
**Classification**: SPL $167,354 plus superannuation

Key responsibilities include:

- Design and implement best-practice employee lifecycle systems, including onboarding, talent planning, performance, leadership development, and culture development with a focus on Inclusion and Diversity.
- Collaborate with Centres of Excellence to ensure aligned and integrated organizational outcomes.
- Formulate the City’s Strategic Capability Plan from the outputs of the City’s Strategic Workforce Plan (capacity (FTE) and capability (skills) and design and curate cutting edge individual and organisational capability building initiatives.
- Centrally manage the City’s organisational capability development priorities and budget to ensure impact and alignment to the City’s organisational vision and strategy.
- Design and implement the City’s talent cycle, including talent reviews, succession planning, and strategies for acquisition, development, retention, and performance management.

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will have proven experience in a similar role within Learning and Organisational Development, covering leadership development, inclusion and diversity, employee experience, and training and compliance.

Essential Experience:

- Degree qualification in Commerce/Business, Organisation Development, Human Resources, Organisational Psychology or a similar field.
- Creativity, user-centered design, critical thinking and leadership will be fundamental to having the expected impact in this business-critical role.
- Extensive knowledge and proven experience in designing Learning and Organisational Development products in a complex and often challenging environment.
- Demonstrated experience in coaching an executive team and collaborating with others in the pursuit of P&C goals.
- Proven ability to effectively negotiate with and influence stakeholders to achieve support and strategic outcomes.

**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._

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**Advertised**: 13 Dec 2024 12:30 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 05 Jan 2025 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time