Manager, Governance and Strategic Coordination

2 days ago


Melbourne, Australia Victorian School Building Authority Full time

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / 3 year fixed term contract

Organisation: Victorian School Building Authority

**Salary**: $134,593 - $180,115

Occupation: Regulatory Governance and Compliance

Reference: VG/DE/VSBA/1832242


**About the Department**

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

**About the Victorian School Building Authority**

The Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA) is part of the Department of Education. Established in 2016, it oversees Victoria's largest school building program since the state introduced free public education in the 1870s.

The VSBA upgrades and expands existing schools and plans, designs and builds new schools to meet enrolment demand. We also support schools to maintain their buildings and grounds by offering expert advice and coordinating maintenance programs and grants.

With Victoria recently introducing two years of funded kindergarten, the VSBA is also working with the early childhood sector on a massive kindergarten construction program.

**About the Division**

The Corporate Division provides corporate support to all VSBA teams and fulfills an important assurance and oversight role. They guide VSBA to achieve strategic objectives and ensure decision-making is transparent and accountable.

The division also coordinates communication and consultation with local communities about their school building projects. They develop graphic design and video content, manage our social media channels, distribute our e-newsletters and organise ministerial and other events for our projects. The Division also leads the organisational customer service reform and uplift program.

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Director, Priorities and Customer Service, the Manager Governance and Strategic Coordination leads a team that provides integrated governance and integrity advice, to staff and senior executives, aligning to the Department's broader governance structures to be effective, efficient and transparent. In addition, the role leads on the VSBA's People and Culture Action Plan.

Key responsibilities include:

- Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to build strong relationships across the VSBA, and DE.
- Overseeing a team that provides expert advice to strengthen the Department's governance model, including strategic secretariat support for key governance committees.
- Developing and delivering the VSBA's annual People and Culture Action Plan, including the roll-out of People Matter results, implementing a range of people and culture actions, providing secretrariat support for the Culture and Capacility Committee and delivering the annual Learning and development framework.
- Providing secretariat support for key VSBA and DE Governance committees.
- Providing authoritative and best-practice advice on governance matters and people and culture issues.
- Coordinating the VSBA's input into the Department's Annual Report.
- Making sure the systems and processes are in place to ensure continuous improvement.
- Overseeing the implementation of the Integrity Action Plan.

All VSBA staff have a shared responsibility to meet the same service standards outlined in the _VSBA Customer Service Charter_. Our goal is to make every interaction with the VSBA a positive one for our customers, colleagues and key partners regardless of our individual role or team.

**Attributes**

**Desirable **Qualifications and Experience**

Desirable: Bachelor degree in a related field and demonstrated experience in a similar role in Government

**Further Information**

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

**Applications close 11:59pm on Thursday the 5th December.



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