Program Manager, Culture Change - Senior Officer

Our client is a forward-thinking regulatory body dedicated to shaping the future of the sector. Be part of our team and help shape the future of our organization.

What Is On Offer: 

• Flexible work options
• Professional development opportunities
• Health and wellbeing programs
• Pet-friendly workplaces
• A supportive and inclusive culture

The Role: As Program Manager, Culture Change, you will lead strategic initiatives to enhance governance, decision-making, and cultural transformation within our organization. Reporting to senior management, you will:

• Lead Project Development: Take charge of developing and delivering a portfolio of projects. Leverage resources to maximize efficiencies and achieve desired outcomes.
• Project Management: Oversee all aspects of project development, implementation, and closure across a portfolio of change projects. This includes preparing business cases and project plans, establishing appropriate governance, identifying, allocating, and managing resources, and meeting reporting requirements to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, and to quality standards.
• Monitor and Evaluate: Implement strategies and tools for continuous monitoring and evaluation of projects. This includes risk and contingency management, benefits realization, and assessing project impact and quality measures to identify and address issues and assess project progress and overall effectiveness.
• Team Leadership: Lead the project team, both internal and external, to deliver all key project milestones and outcomes.
• Stakeholder Management: Manage stakeholder relationships through the provision of expert advice, effective communication, negotiation, and issues management to ensure stakeholders are engaged throughout the project and project deliverables are met.
• Influence and Advise: Demonstrate an ability to influence key stakeholders, groups, or individuals while maintaining productive relationships. Provide expert advice and information to stakeholders on emerging project issues and present recommendations to support project delivery in line with established plans, budgets, timeframes, policy objectives, and other project priorities.
• Ethical Behavior: Demonstrate ethical behavior and integrity as required by the Public Sector Ethics Act 1994.

Key Competencies/Suitability: To be successful in this role, candidates should demonstrate the following competencies and personal qualities:

• Comfortably dealing with uncertainty and risk to make quality decisions regardless of constraints such as limited information available.
• Making good decisions that can be publicly upheld, based on analysis of available information and the application of sound judgment to forecast decision outcomes and manage risk.
• Effectively managing people and projects to meet deadlines through goal setting, resource allocation, risk management, and performance evaluation.
• Willingness to share information, support, and speak on behalf of others when necessary, and ability to deal with conflict to manage difficult individuals, issues, and situations in a compassionate, direct, objective, positive way.
• Supporting a culture of achievement, striving for quality outcomes, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, managing risks that may impede success.
• Managing complex and sensitive consultations and negotiations with diverse stakeholders, within agreed timelines, given varying expectations, viewpoints, and interests.
• Responding flexibly to ensure the achievement of multiple project objectives, given limited resources and tight deadlines, and the need to identify project interdependencies and balance competing demands and priorities.

Special Requirements and Working Conditions: The successful candidate will:

• Be subject to a criminal history check and/or probity check during the selection process. The recommended applicant will be required to disclose any previous serious disciplinary action.
• Be required to sign a conflict-of-interest form. You may be precluded from consideration for this position if any private interest or relationship constitutes a conflict of interest under the Conflict-of-Interest Policy, guideline, and procedures that cannot be reasonably managed.
• Be subjected to a mandatory gambling restrictions policy which prohibits any gambling on the racing events throughout Australia and internationally and must declare and disclose all gambling accounts.

For confidential inquiries about this role, please contact Ashleigh McMillan, Client Partner at OnTalent on 07 3305 5***.