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Form of work- Senior Strategist, Workforce Planning and Transformation
- Ballarat based
- Executive role circa $190k package
Firstly, a bit about the organisation. Employing around 250 staff, the organisation manages and operates substantial infrastructure to deliver critical services to business and households across a broad geography. Hence it employs a wide range of staff including Engineers, Maintenance, Scientists, cutting edge ICT, Customer Services and so on. The organisation is, in fact, very highly regarded for its service delivery, but also, to be truthful, as an employer of choice in the region.
Over the past couple of years, the organisation has made a number of important changes in its Executive Leadership Team, including the appointment of a new Managing Director. Moreover, however, it has led the industry with the development of a 2040 Strategic Plan, covering all facets of the business. That’s quite ambitious! However, with a newly expanded People, Culture and Safety team there are varying degrees of maturity and individual team strategies are not currently integrated. Workforce planning is required to build a resilient workforce for the future. The organisation therefore recognises that it must have an Enterprise-wide Strategic Workforce Plan to deliver on its 2040 Strategic Plan.
So, this is where you come in – as a Senior Strategist, acting as a Strategic Advisor to the General Manager, People, Culture & Safety, but also working closely with the Managing Director, the Executive Leadership Team, and the Board of Directors, your role is to design and deliver an end-to-end Strategic Workforce Plan and its associated initiatives. It’s going to have many ‘layers’ – assessing skills needs for the future and taking account of technology, climate change, Industry, regulatory and Customer changes, all with a backdrop of the organisation’s own priorities and goals.
The Strategic Workforce Plan will represent intelligence led change and organisational transformation, taking account of Risk - both financial and reputational and advising the organisation on its workforce needs and embedding that in the organisation, all aligned to its 2040 Plan. You’ll have the process developed in 6 months and imbedded in the business after 12 months, but then it matures and is on-going- this is seen as at least a 3-year journey.
As for you? As I said, what we’re after is experience having designed and delivered organisational workforce strategies and therefore having the influencing skills to secure buy-in and engagement, working closely with senior stakeholders and their teams. You may have driven this in the private sector or even the public sector, but probably with a workforce encompassing both Field and Office personnel.
You’ll be joining a PC&S team that is quite progressive and that has invested substantially in its culture and leadership dynamic. Its anchor behaviours include Information Exchange and Accountability – working together, Customer and solution centric. The organisation has shown it can innovate, but there’s also lots of room to improve and there is high ambition. They want to be seen as the industry thought leaders.
This role is hybrid and Ballarat based, so just 1.5 hours out of Melbourne and away from the city rat race, where beautiful Victorian architecture sits amongst stunning natural scenery. But critically, Ballarat also boasts outstanding education and health infrastructure.
I could go on and I’d like to tell you more. Hopefully I’ve whetted your appetite. For more information and a confidential discussion, call me, Andrew Telburn on 0412 342 073 or email at andrew@reddingroup.com.au.
