Manager - Learning and Organisational Development

**Job no**: 496552

**Work type**: Full time

**Location**: Perth CBD, Inner & Western Suburbs

**Categories**: Day Club Manager

**ABOUT US**

Amana Living is one of the largest Aged Care providers in Western Australia and has been responding to the needs of older people and those who care for them since 1962. We offer a broad range of services, including residential care facilities, transition care programs, retirement living villages, home care, day care, respite, and dementia specific services. Together, we enable older people to maintain their individuality, providing what is needed to support a fulfilling life.

**THE ROLE**

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned learning and organisational development professional to join the People and Culture Team in a new role that will have broad scope to shape a new team and learning strategy for Amana Living. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this role works in close collaboration with colleague people and culture leaders as well as operational leaders, to develop and deliver a contemporary and innovative program of learning and organisational development activities supporting Amana Living to achieve its strategic objectives, and ultimately deliver on its vision and mission.

This role will work closely with the Amana Living Training Institute (ALTI), a Registered Training Organisation delivering care sector relevant national qualification framework and non-accredited training to Amana Living, individual students and other organisations. The L&OD Manager will develop the overarching L&OD Strategy that will utilise ALTI training products where suitable to meet Amana Living’s requirements. ALTI training will be complemented by other learning activities, either internally or sourced from other providers when appropriate.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead the design, development and delivery of contemporary Organisational Development and Learning and Development strategies, policies, programs and initiatives that support Amana Living to realise our vision and mission; and embed our values into culture.
- Develop and maintain an in depth understanding of Amana Living’s organisational culture and performance, to develop and deliver activity in support of desired outcomes.
- Monitor emerging trends and best practice across the OD and L&D disciplines within the care and other sectors, ensuring Amana Living’s practices are contemporary and result in great outcomes.
- Lead activities, such as surveys and needs analysis, to inform strategy and program development.
- Develop mechanisms to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of all programs and activities, including internal stakeholder satisfaction and achievement of learning outcomes for L&OD programs.
- Redesign the Amana Living induction and orientation program with a broad focus on the first 90 days of employment, ensuring all new team members have a successful start to their career with us, minimising early turnover.
- Develop and monitor a leadership development framework that ensures Amana Living leaders are equipped to deliver on the people management and other outcomes of their roles.
- Develop and maintain performance appraisal and development methodologies and systems that ensure all Amana Living people have meaningful performance plans in place that connect them to our purpose.
- Maintain the Amana Life Reward and Recognition program, supporting translation of values into behaviours and actions.
- Develop and maintain talent management and succession planning framework, ensuring active engagement of stakeholders.
- Lead a team of learning and organisational development professionals, adopting a business partnering model that ensures shared responsibility for the operational outcomes of the business.
- Develop and manage partnership with the Amana Living Training institute, as our primary supplier of training products.
- Manage relationships with other external providers and stakeholders.
- Lead the design and facilitation of in-house events (e.g. workshops, forums, focus groups) as required.
- Lead and monitor compliance, governance, and assurance activities.

**ABOUT YOU**

You will have a strong track record of implementing programs that make a real difference and be confident in developing solutions and making recommendations based on your expertise. We are looking for an individual who has an attitude of continuous improvement, perfection is not the goal, but rather progress. This role provides an excellent opportunity to shape the teams structure, and we require a passionate individual who is eager to build and grow this function. You would have proven leadership skills, both in terms of managing a team of direct reports, and in influencing stakeholders and other people across an organisation in the implementation and execution of programs and strategy.

**Essential Requirements**
- Relevant Tertiary Qualifications (organisational development, learning, human resources, organisational