Head of Business Excellence

Are you ready to do something that truly matters?

At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education.

But times are changing, and so are we. And although we’re passionate believers that children come first, we know our people must come first, too.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

**Help shape the future of children in our care**

The Head of Business excellence role is pivotal in driving the strategic implementation and oversight of the Project Management Office (PMO) within C&K. Through leadership and mentoring, you will guide the development of project and change management governance frameworks, methodologies, and tools tailored to our specific needs, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability across all project initiatives.

You’ll help us shape the future of children in our care by:

- Driving process standardization and change management by developing, implementing, and maintaining project management and change management methodologies, standards, and tools.
- Leading Project Governance and continuous improvement by aligning projects with the organization’s strategic objectives.
- Prioritizing and managing the project portfolio to balance resource allocation and strategic importance, and identifying, assessing, and managing project and change management risks and issues.
- Executing continuous improvement initiatives within the project management function by coaching teams, conducting lessons learned sessions, and implementing feedback mechanisms.
- Investigating, researching, and evaluating strategic projects and proposals, providing reports on their feasibility, funding, resource allocation, and overall viability.

**What you’ll bring**

You will demonstrate strong analytical, evaluation and problem-solving abilities to accomplish project deliverables and outcomes. With extensive experience in project management, you will collaborate across the organization to support effective business change.

To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

- Tertiary qualifications in Project Management, Business Administration, or related field.
- Valid Blue Card and current Police Check (completed within three months or willing to obtain these).

We would also love you to have:

- Flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances and project requirements.
- Knowledge of LEAN methodology principles
- AGILE, PRINCE2 or similar project management certification

**Find your Better Way**

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We want the same for you and joining C&K means impacting a child’s life journey for the time they spend with us and long after they leave. But, so much of what we do depends on you.

We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.
- Enjoy a better work-life balance with the option to work from home two days a week, plus one allocated day off each month and flexible start and finish times.
- Expand your skills and knowledge with training opportunities, ongoing support and experienced mentors who help you achieve.
- Live, work and be well with our Employee Assistance Program for you and your family.
- Find a healthy work-life balance with parental leave, return-to-work support, and family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres.
- Fully funded Blue Card and Police Check.
- Save money with childcare discounts for eligible employees with children enrolled at a C&K Branch Centre.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.
- C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a ‘_Restricted Person_’ or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System._

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