Manager Learning and Organisational Development

**Manager Learning and Organisational Development**:
**Job no**: 497918

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Classification**: MSP

**Categories**: Human Resources

**Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong**
At City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung country such a great place to live, work and study.

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit **apply** - we’d love to meet you

**About the role**
In this role, you will contribute to Geelong City’s business objectives through management of the team’s design and delivery of the City’s Learning and Organisational Development roadmap.

Key responsibilities include:

- Design and drive the implementation of the City’s Learning and Organisational Development roadmap as a subset of the City’s People & Culture Strategy.
- Taking a UX user-centred design approach to the ground-up creation and implementation of a best practice suite of employee lifecycle systems; including, onboarding and employee experience, succession & talent pipeline planning, performance, enterprise wide leadership and culture development including Inclusion and Diversity.
- Partner with other Centres of Excellence including, Workplace Relations, Transformation office and Change Management, Employee Communications, Health Safety & Wellbeing, People Shared Services Centre and Organisation Design to ensure alignment of purpose and integrated organisational outcomes.
- Contract with People Partners to consult to the business on and execute the Centre of Excellence plan.
- Centrally manage the City’s organisational capability development priorities and budget to ensure impact and alignment to the City’s organisational vision and strategy.
- Curate and strategically partner to deliver capability building initiatives for enterprise wide initiatives for leadership, culture, training and compliance.

**About you**
To be successful in this role, you will have extensive experience in a similar role in the areas of Learning and Organisational Development including leadership development, inclusion and diversity, employee experience and training and compliance.

Essential Experience:

- Degree qualification in Commerce/Business, Organisation Development, Human Resources, Organisational Psychology or a similar field.
- Creativity, user-centered design, critical thinking and leadership will be fundamental to having the expected impact in this business-critical role.
- Extensive knowledge and proven experience in designing Learning and Organisational Development products in a complex and often challenging environment.
- Demonstrated experience in coaching an executive team and collaborating with others in the pursuit of P&C goals.
- Proven ability to effectively negotiate with and influence stakeholders to achieve support and strategic outcomes.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with the proven ability to build effective relationships and communicate with a diverse range of people internally and externally.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data and general insights.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple work priorities and deliver to project outcomes.

**A career with us**
With flexible working options, our people have choice in how and where they work. Our employees connect with us from across the Greater Geelong region and beyond.

Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.

We offer:

- flexible work arrangements including RDO options in specified work areas
- salary