Manager, Corporate Services

**Teachers Registration Board**
**Job reference**: 646780
**Location**: 5000 - ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Ongoing
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

**About the Teachers Registration Board**:
The Teachers Registration Board (the TRB) is established under the _Teachers Registration and Standards Act 2004_ (the Act) and the _Teachers Registration and Standards Regulations 2021_ to regulate the teaching profession. The object of the Act is, in the public interest, to maintain a teacher registration system and professional standards for teachers to ensure its members are competent, fit and proper to have the care of children.

The TRB employs its own staff and is a public sector agency under the _Public Sector Act 2009_. The _South Australian Public Sector Salaried Employees Interim Award_ and the _South Australian Public Sector Enterprise Agreement: Salaried 2021_ governs the employment conditions of the Board.

The TRB will uphold public sector values through its decisions, actions and interactions. In addition, we are committed to our values:

- Collaboration: We collaborate in our work practices. We effect partnerships with teachers, Initial Teacher Education providers and the community to enable teachers to thrive, now and into the future.
- Innovation: We balance opportunity and risk in the pursuit of continual improvement.
- Integrity: We are accountable by demonstrating ethical conduct and honesty.
- Transparency: We ensure information and accurate communication is delivered in a timely manner.

The TRB makes decisions that comply with legislation, are ethical and are consistent with approved policy and procedure. The TRB is a self-funded statutory authority where financial planning, management and accountability of Teacher registration fees enables delivery of a broad range of agency functions.

**Role Description**

The Manager, Corporate Services is accountable to the Director, Regulatory Performance for providing high-level direction to lead, oversee and ensure the effective delivery of business services to support the TRB to achieve objectives and key outcomes. The role is responsible for effective leadership of a specialised team delivering superior services across several areas of technical expertise, through oversight of key performance indicators and targets within legislative and organisational timeframes. Technical areas include: financial services, human resource management, work health and safety, wellbeing, oversight of Information Communication Technology (ICT), procurement activities and records management and media and communication functions.

The role is suited to those who can embrace operational learnings of TRB Teacher registration and Initial Teacher Education accreditation practices to inform business needs and develop service delivery.

This role is offered ongoing, at full time and at the MAS3 level - located in the heart of the Adelaide CBD.

**Role Summary**

The key responsibilities of the Manager, Corporate Services include:

- Manage, organise and optimise the Corporate Services function through continual improvement of processes and systems to ensure consistency and quality in line with best practice in government.
- Develop, implement and maintain strategic and operational frameworks, plans, programs of work, and procedures that deliver corporate activities across the organisation.
- Develop, implement, maintain and provide leadership of a performance management framework for the organisation.
- Lead, oversee and provide expert advice to support a comprehensive financial management function, including budget preparation and monitoring, provision of financial statements and reporting, managing procurement activities in line with government procurement governance policy and partner relationships, reviewing and maintaining financial authorisations and other delegations; and internal and external audit processes.
- Lead, manage and provide strategic advice to support the human resources function for the organisation to ensure all related activities are delivered in a best practice manner.
- Lead, oversee and provide strategic advice to support the information technology function to ensure effective systems are in place for business continuity and to leverage technology to improve operational outcomes.
- Negotiate and manage the organisation’s service level agreements and contracts and monitors delivery against agreed deliverables.
- Support risk related activities and functions of the agency in line with the Risk Management Framework.
- Provide high quality, accurate and timely advice and recommendations, both written and verbal including briefings and reports to the Registrar and/or the Board.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve desired objectives and outcomes, and to ensure all responsibilities are undertaken effectively.

**Selection Criteria**

**Qualifications**:

- An appropriate Degree in Accounting