Manager Change

Full time limited tenure until June 2027
- Lead the way in driving transformation
- ake a meaningful contribution to the community

**About Whitehorse City Council**:
The City of Whitehorse, located 15 kilometres east of the Melbourne CBD, is a culturally diverse community of almost 177,000 people. Whitehorse includes the suburbs of Box Hill, Burwood, Nunawading, Blackburn, Mitcham, Forest Hill and Vermont and is characterised by quiet tree-lined residential streets, an abundance of parks, gardens and natural bushland reserves, bustling shopping centres and a diverse range of arts, cultural, sports and leisure facilities.

Whitehorse City Council provides more than 100 services and facilities across a range of areas within our community services, city development, infrastructure, corporate services and transformation directorates.

Whitehorse is one of Melbourne’s largest metropolitan councils with a workforce of approximately 1300 employees and aspires to foster an inclusive, vibrant, prosperous and sustainable community. Our employees help us achieve these goals

At Whitehorse, employee health, wellbeing and development are paramount, and we aim for everyone to become the best they can be in the workplace.

**Benefits of working with us include**:

- A welcoming and supportive working environment
- Great opportunities for training and to build a long-term career within Whitehorse or the local government sector.
- Extensive employee health and wellbeing programs including flexible working arrangements
- Salary sacrifice options for gym / swim memberships, childcare and superannuation; and access to novated vehicle leases.
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
- Ample onsite parking at most facilities with ready access to public transport
- Active Social Club with a calendar of events through the year

**Position Overview**:
Whitehorse City Council is undertaking a change to the organisational structure to facilitate the successful delivery of transformation program which includes a significant investment in technology transformation. We are seeking an experienced leader, to strategically manage, plan and coordinate services, programs and projects within the Change and Continuous Improvement Department that enable the achievement of Transformation principles and objectives. This role is responsible for Continuous Improvement Program, Service Review Program and Organisational Change Management. This role reports to the Executive Manager Transformation and is part of the Senior Leadership Team.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Evidence of strong leadership and motivational abilities in a diverse, fast changing, complex environment.
- Ability to advise on and lead significant workplace reform and to lead organisational change.
- The ability to provide leadership and guidance to staff under supervision and to develop and monitor performance objectives for staff.
- Values driven demonstrating high levels of emotional intelligence and integrity.
- Demonstrated ability to manage own emotions and acts as a stabilising influence in emotionally charged situations
- Strong professional leadership with a genuine commitment to embedding the organisation’s values, ensuring the employee experience represents those values.
- Influence change and develop and maintain positive relationships within a political environment.
- Embed a culture of innovation, accountability, and service orientation across the department.
- Embeds best practice governance, risk and compliance ensuring Council operates within legislative and regulatory standards in line with Council’s risk appetite
- Consider multiple perspectives and complex information within a multifaceted and complex changing environment, to create viable options.
- Produce high quality reports and discussion papers, make persuasive formal presentations and to represent Council in professional, organisational and community forums.
- Evidence of strong leadership and motivational abilities in a diverse, fast changing, complex environment.
- Ability to advise on and lead significant change with benefits realisation.

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Demonstrated ability to implement efficient, effective, and sustainable business practices through a continuous improvement lens.
- Significant and successful demonstrated experience in the leadership, management, and delivery of a range of continuous improvement and change services, strategies, and advice within complex, medium to large organisations.
- Demonstrated successful experience in the management of organisational wide transformational change programs which include improving capability.
- Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills to enable effective communication with all levels of Council, Executive, management, employees, and external contacts.
- Values driven demonstrating high emotional intelligence and integrity.

**Compensation and Duration**:
This is a temporary full time pos