Learning & Organisational Development Lead

**Make your Mark in this 12-month assignment**:
**Join Us as a Learning & Organisational Development Specialist Lead**:

- Design and implement Council’s learning and organisational development initiatives to enhance workforce engagement and capability.
- Support a culture of “customer at heart” to meet the evolving needs of our community.
- Collaborate with internal partners and stakeholders to implement strategic projects that enhance employee engagement.
- Lead a small team to deliver high-quality learning and organisational development programs aligned Council’s objectives.

**About Us**:
We are a progressive Council committed to our people and to creating a thriving community for all who live and work here. Our focus is on developing an engaged and community centric workforce, fostering an inclusive, respectful, and innovative work environment.

Reporting to our Chief Human Resources Officer and part of the People & Culture Leadership team, you will bring highly developed expertise to help shape our organisational culture and deliver learning and organisational development initiatives that enable our leaders and our people to excel.

**About the Position**:
The Learning & Organisational Development Lead is both a strategic and implementation role responsible for leading Council’s learning and organisational development strategy and initiatives. This critical role will support the design of strategies and programs which enhance the organisation’s preferred culture by enhancing leadership capability and employee experience, through contemporary and innovative thinking.

This highly visible partnering role will work with the business to understand needs, emerging challenges and will spearhead key projects in Diversity and Inclusion, Cultural uplift and Leadership Development. You will also ensure that new employees are supported through effective onboarding, provide targeted training to enhance employee capabilities, and actively promote workforce engagement through program design and delivery. Alongside your day-to-day activities, you will be instrumental in supporting the implementation of a new learning management system that will be fully integrated with our new Human Resources Information System (HRIS).

**Who We Are Looking For**:

- Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline.
- Extensive experience in a similar role.
- Excellent planning, team leadership and resource management skills.
- Adeptness in anticipating changes and developing strategic responses to meet business requirements and objectives.
- High levels of emotional intelligence to foster collaborative relationships at all levels.
- Demonstrated technical knowledge relevant to the role.
- Previous system implementation experience an advantage.

Join our Team and Grow with Us
- **Interview date**:Interviews will be facilitated week commencing Monday 9th December 2024
- **Hours of work**:Temporary Full-Time 35 hours per week with option of 19-day month with flex-time arrangement. Opportunity expected to be available for up to 12 months.
- To benefit your wellbeing you will have access to fitness passport, corporate membership to our leisure centres, employee assistance program, annual flu shots, health and wellbeing programme and novated lease options.

**About Us**:
If you want to make a difference and be part of a challenging and rewarding working environment, then joining us just might be the right career move for you Join a passionate and dedicated team covering a diversity of services, industries and occupations.
- At Sutherland Shire Council we do more than serve our community - we are our community. Our energy can be seen in everything we do. From having a can-do attitude, to embracing change and opportunities, being people-centred and working together as one.