Senior Advisor, Leadership and Talent

About Us

At Development Victoria, we're passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.

As the Victorian Government's development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.

Your New Role

Reporting to the Senior Manager Organisational Development, as Senior Advisor, Leadership and Talent, you will design and deliver initiatives that strengthen leadership capability, enhance performance, and build a thriving culture. Working closely with People & Culture Business Partners, leaders and teams, you'll lead key people processes including development, performance and talent management, while also enhancing our leadership development and early career pathways. This role is pivotal in driving the Development Victoria People Plan and creating impactful experiences that enable our people to thrive and perform at their best.

Core Accountabilities:

• Design, deliver, and continuously improve organisational development programs to build leadership capability, culture, and performance.
• Manage the annual development and performance cycle, ensuring leaders and employees have the tools and resources to drive high performance.
• Coordinate talent management practices, including succession planning and data insights to support executive decision-making.
• Project manage and facilitate leadership development programs and capability-building initiatives.
• Design and implement measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve leadership programs.
• Develop and oversee early careers programs, including internships and graduate pathways.
• Identify and execute improvements to systems, processes, and resources to enhance the employee experience.
• Maintain and improve self-service resources and information on the intranet for leaders and employees.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external providers to ensure quality and responsiveness of program

About You

You are an experienced organisational development professional who thrives on creating impactful programs that build leadership capability, talent management practices and enhance the employee experience. You bring strong collaboration skills, critical thinking, and a passion for continuous improvement.

You will bring:

• A relevant tertiary qualification in education, human resources, or business (postgraduate qualifications advantageous).
• Demonstrated experience in HR, organisational development, or learning and development;
• Proven ability to manage projects end-to-end within People and Culture, delivering outcomes on time.
• Exceptional collaboration, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong critical thinking and decision-making ability, considering employee experience and organisational context.
• Advanced communication skills to lead conversations across all levels and mediums.
• Experience working with HRIS platforms and leveraging system capabilities to support HR processes and insights.

Employee Benefits

• We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.
• Professional development opportunities available including;
• Study support
• Leadership programs
• Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.
• Novated leasing
• Purchase leave
• Paid parental leave
• Technology salary sacrifice
• Employee referral bonuses
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
• Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance
• Modern onsite facilities

Application Process

• Please apply via our careers page linked to this advertisement, applications will not be accepted via email.
• Advert may close prior to the closure date if a high volume of applications is received so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
• Please note: The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check prior to an offer of employment being made.
• At Development Victoria, we work flexibly and value diversity, and we invite you to talk to us about any preferences or adjustments you may value or require to either our recruitment process or the role itself. If you identify as a person with disability, please let us know how we can provide additional support to your application.
• Application Deadline: Please submit your application by 30/11/2025. Applications received after this date may not be considered.

We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.