Governance Manager

6 days ago


Cooma, Australia Snowyhydro Full time

A Project Like No Other
Join us on a groundbreaking journey with Snowy 2.0, a monumental advancement in the Snowy Scheme's legacy and Australia's largest committed renewable energy initiative. With a focus on providing on-demand energy and extensive storage capacity, Snowy 2.0 serves as a cornerstone for the future generations in the nation's transition towards a low-carbon emissions future.
The Snowy 2.0 project's innovative design involves linking Tantangara and Talbingo dams through tunnels spanning 27 kilometres and constructing an underground power station, to enable efficient water pumping between both dams. Snowy 2.0's closed-loop system optimises renewable resources by reusing water and leveraging excess solar and wind energy, ensuring maximum efficiency in Australia's renewable energy landscape.
The Location
Located in Cooma, nestled amidst the breathtaking Snowy Mountains, you'll wake up to stunning scenery every day. Embrace a warm diverse community and a standard of living, where outdoor adventures abound from skiing and hiking to fishing and mountain biking.
Depending on your position and location, we provide FIFO, DIDO, and relocation options. For those relocating, we recognise that moving to a regional area can be both exciting and challenging. That's why we offer a flexible relocation package and are dedicated to assisting your transition to regional living. We believe you'll embrace your new lifestyle
The Role
Reporting to the General Manager of Excellence, you'll lead the governance function, instilling accountability and excellence within the Snowy 2.0 Project. Your pivotal role involves ensuring the seamless operation of critical governance structures, embedding best practices in project governance, and fostering efficient communication among senior management, project departments and external contractors.

**Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to**:
Driving continuous improvement of the project governance model to bolster organisational effectiveness and decision-making.

Creating, refining and facilitating key governance forums and committees, fostering effective collaboration across a diverse network of project stakeholders. Additionally, you'll analyse governance process data, pinpointing areas for enhancement, and propose potential options to improve governance practices.

Producing monthly reports to the board and stakeholders, presenting project performance, key decisions, and issues for resolution in a high-quality.

Compiling a comprehensive set of leading and lagging indicators for the project through dashboards, facilitating assessment of project performance and progress by internal and external stakeholders, including the Snowy Board.

Ensuring transparency by establishing KPIs upfront, and proactively recommending and implementing dashboard changes to align with evolving projects.

Collaborating with Snowy BAU to ensure data assurance, automating and streamlining data capturing processes, and analysing data to identify improvement areas and elevate.

Ensuring the project has sufficient insurance coverage and that logistics and reporting processes align with appropriate insurance models.

**You'll Bring To The Team**:
You will possess a Bachelor's degree in business, management or a related field. Demonstrating successful experience in leading governance functions within project environments, ideally in Infrastructure mega projects. Equipped with a mindset and adaptability to excel in fast-paced, dynamic environments, your skill set should encompass robust analytical and problem-solving capabilities, as well as excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
About Our Team

**We uphold the principle of “One Team Working Together”**:
CARE - We protect our people, communities and the environment
TOGETHER - We are are One Project Team
EXCELLENCE - We commit to doing our best
COURAGE - We are bold, speak up and do the right thing
OWNERSHIP - We are accountable


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