Chief Strategy and Performance Officer
5 days ago
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the strategic direction of the department by developing a compelling vision, setting clear goals, and ensuring alignment with the City's broader strategic and community priorities.
- Building and leading a high-performing leadership team, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and customer-focused culture that lives the City's values and drives continuous improvement.
- Strengthening departmental capability and culture by coaching leaders, holding them accountable for team performance.
- Overseeing strategic workforce planning to ensure the department has the resourcing, skills and readiness required to deliver current and future strategic initiatives.
- Driving excellence in strategic and operational planning, including leading enterprise-wide processes such as annual business planning, service reviews, and strategic alignment of programs and projects.
- Developing, governing and continuously improving service delivery models and the City's Strategy & Performance service catalogue, supported by KPIs, SLAs.
- Leading the development of enterprise-wide strategy, change and transformation capabilities, overseeing the Corporate PMO, embedding a centre of excellence for project and change maturity, and ensuring delivery of strategically aligned outcomes.
- Acting as a trusted advisor and advocate, providing strategic insight to the CEO, ELT and Council, drawing on best practice, sector intelligence and performance data to shape decisions and influence organisational outcomes.
- Fostering a culture of integrated governance, accountability and innovation by collaborating across the executive, maintaining strong relationships with key leaders and stakeholders, and overseeing risk, budget, and performance frameworks that deliver sustainable value to the community.
Essential Experience:
- Demonstrated senior leadership experience in managing high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams and fostering a positive, values-aligned culture.
- Proven strategic thinking and problem-solving capability with a track record of delivering innovative, long-term organisational outcomes.
- Extensive experience in leading and delivering business transformation, organisational change, and strategic improvement initiatives in complex environments.
- Strong internal consulting capability with expertise across corporate strategy, business planning, change management, and program/project delivery.
- Proven ability to manage strategic business planning, budgets, financial resources, and complex reporting aligned to organisational KPIs and priorities.
- Demonstrated proficiency in applying structured project and change methodologies to deliver enterprise-wide outcomes on time and within budget.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including negotiation, consultation, and presentation, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and secure support for strategic initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills, with the ability to build strategic partnerships and navigate competing priorities.
- Experience operating in fast-paced, politically aware environments, with the ability to lead through ambiguity and drive innovation and future-focused strategies.
- Preferred candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check and a pre-employment medical assessment as part of the recruitment process (funded by the City).
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