About the role:  Do you:

• want to be involved in large scale, complex programmatic work with the potential for sector-wide change?
• excel in designing and delivering internal services and initiatives to achieve strategic outcomes?
• foster strong partnerships across diverse internal and external stakeholders to drive consensus and action? The Manager, Change will be responsible for driving effective change management strategies ensuring department readiness and capability for change initiatives, and successful adoption of new processes, systems, and strategies. The role is responsible for providing leadership and guidance based on advanced expertise, and delivering a service to internal customers that makes complex change easy for our leaders to facilitate, and our impacted users and stakeholders to participate in. The role involves developing effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, closely working with the other units in Organisational Effectiveness and a range of program and policy areas within the department. The successful applicant will demonstrate sound leadership and people management skills, as well as an ability to influence others to navigate complex change initiatives of the Victorian health workforces and improve outcomes for Victorians.

About us:  At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.  We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.  Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate:

• Effective supervision and provide leadership to a team of employees.
• Proven ability to operate in accordance with delegated authority, consistent with departmental and government policies.
• Develop and embed change capability in the department to enable change management practices to occur effectively as required in line with strategy.
• Manage and oversee the full life cycle of change projects to meet departmental objectives.
• Monitoring and evaluating projects to ensure departmental objectives are met.
• Where responsible for overseeing, monitoring or delivering projects, ensure they are delivered in accordance with relevant legislation and government regulations and guidelines.
• Identify emerging issues, risk and trends impacting on the successful achievement of key business objectives and imperatives and provide high quality business intelligence and sound recommendations based on comprehensive research and investigations.
• Strong critical analysis and reporting skills, high attention to detail, excellent writing skills and experience in managing stakeholder relationships.
• Formulate compliance and evaluation strategies to address specific issues related to the effective provision and implementation of required outcomes.
• Provide leadership, guidance and authoritative advice to internal and external stakeholders and prepare and present detailed, comprehensive reports, ministerial briefs, cabinet and agency submissions on complex matters.
• Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills, with an ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships, provide advice on processes and policies, and work effectively with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders. To learn more please click ‘Apply' to view the Position Description on the Careers.vic website.

  What we offer: 

• The opportunity to perform meaningful work, making direct contributions toward enabling Victorians to be the healthiest people in the world.
• A wide range of growth and development opportunities within the department and wider Victorian Public Service & Sector.
• A strong commitment to work-life balance, including a diverse array of flexible working arrangements.