EL1 Assistant Director, Change Lead

Posted 16 July 2024
Salary$602.55 per day
LocationRichmond
Job type Contract
DisciplineGovernment Federal
ReferenceJO-2407-494059

Job description

The Opportunity

Our client is a Federal Government body that supports Australians and their families by valuing a positive contemporary attitude to disability. This client is currently seeking experienced EL1 Strategic Change Coordinator to join their team in Richmond.

This role is a 12-month role, with full time hours and paying $602.55 + super per day. This is a hybrid opportunity, with WFH available for 2 days per week following training. 
 
The Role and Responsibilities:

The team is responsible for undertaking very complex work that delivers quality outcomes across the Service Design and improvement functions of the agency. The position is an important team leadership role and will have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities of substantial depth involving significant detail. The role requires providing leadership, control, planning, resource management, performance management and decision making for the team membership and assigned contractors working within the work area.

The EL1 Strategic Change Coordinator will exercise a considerable degree of independence to engage in very complex problem solving and issues management within service design functions. The position requires exercising sound decision-making and judgement to produce high level policy advice and operational support.

Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
  • Assisting in the establishment of future state vision and stakeholder experience/journey aligned with that vision.
  • Coordinating the engagement of program and organisational leaders to future state vision, case for change and change leadership role/capabilities.
  • Providing guidance, coaching to team members and meeting the needs of service users with quality deliverables.
  • Supporting the management of stakeholder segments that reflect functional, behavioural and attitudinal characteristics of the target audience.
  • Providing advice on effective channels and levers to effect functional, behavioural and attitudinal change appropriate to the audience segment.
  • Developing, implementing, evaluating and communicating change management requirements, plans and schedules including proposing recommendations for continuous improvement.
  • Assisting in the tracking of changes in adoption, behaviours and attitudes toward discrete and program-wide changes, to drive insight and improvement in our approach.
  • Providing support towards the establishment of strategies on how to prioritise, sequence and deliver changes to deliver the vision, factoring in complexity in the operating environment, conflicting demands, and other changes.
  • Focusing strategically on existing Participants, their families and carers, existing Providers, and our internal staff and other stakeholders both internally and external to the agency.
About you
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining high work standards and accuracy, meeting defined timeframes.
  • Develop and action project plans and assist in project management activities.
  • The ability to Influence and negotiate outcomes.
  • A background in change management required.
To apply for this role, applicants are required to hold Australian Citizenship.

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DFP welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability. In addition, DFP will provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability throughout the recruitment process. If you identify as a person with disability and require adjustments to the application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please advise via adjustments@dfp.com.au or 1300 337 000 and indicate your preferred method of communication (email, phone, text) so we can keep in touch and meet your accessibility needs.
 
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