Executive Director, Education Queensland Insights Platform Program, Strategy And Performance Branch

Join our team in the Department of Education, where you'll play a key role in helping to deliver our vision of equity and excellence in a progressive, high performing education system that realises the potential of every student.

As the Executive Director of the Education Queensland Insights Program, you will bring your leadership and strategic engagement expertise to deliver a significant program of work and drive transformative change.

You will direct the establishment of an enterprise-level data platform underpinned by robust data and information governance and shape education delivery by embedding capability-building, empowering evidence-informed decision-making, and fostering high performance through easy access to data, information and advanced analytics.

About the Department of Education

The Department of Education are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

About this Opportunity

Reporting to the Assistant Director-General of the Strategy & Performance Branch of the Department of Education, this role will lead a team of 50 FTE and Contractors across a significant, $70m transformation project. While a strong technical skill-set and understanding of ICT delivery will be highly regarded, it is essential the Executive Director has demonstrable experience in creating a vision and engaging across a large organisation and diverse stakeholders to enable effective delivery of a large transformational program.

It is paramount the Executive Director creates an environment where end-users in schools, regions and the department feel confident they can readily access the information they require to make informed decisions. For this to happen, the Executive Director, through their delivery team will need to create the environment where data is accessible and integrated through an enterprise-wide platform underpinned by robust governance arrangements and quality assurance processes.

About the Role

As the Executive Director, Education Queensland Insights Platform Program, you will:

• Provide executive leadership in the areas of information management, organisational change management, programme and project management, and governance to successfully deliver a program of works to establish an enterprise level data platform, underpinned by robust data governance and quality control processes to enable enhanced analytics and reporting capabilities.
• Provide executive leadership to design, develop and embed capability building practices, processes and tools to better support schools, regions and central office in making evidence-informed decisions, and help drive high performance and accountability through good governance and a sustainable approach to continually mature the way data is captured, analysed and used.

What we are looking for:

• Demonstrated leadership success in large, complex organisations.
• Extensive experience across public, private, or not-for-profit sectors.
• Strong background in Strategy and policy implementation, service delivery, and client service.
• Proven track record as an agent of change in challenging environments.
• Ability to foster a confident and capable workforce.

Importantly, this role will deliver a critical program to facilitate an approach that enables and underpins an ability to access data to drive predictive models and future-focused thinking leading to better outcomes for children and young people.

How to Apply

• Please attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history); and
• A 1-pg written statement about how your achievements and capabilities meet the requirements of the role.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. 

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department. 

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted. 

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE). 

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