City of Greater Geelong

Organisation Planning & Insights Lead

City of Greater Geelong  •  Geelong, AU (Hybrid)  •  6 hours ago
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Job Description

About the role

In this role, you’ll assess the City’s performance against its priorities and help transform how we measure, analyse and report on results. You’ll shape future-focused systems and processes, explore AI and automation opportunities, and champion their safe and responsible use to deliver smarter, more efficient planning, performance reporting and insights.

Work type: Permanent, full-time.

Classification: Band 8, $125,701 pa + super.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Partner with the organisation through the Annual Planning Cycle, ensuring business and service plans are strategically aligned and cascaded consistently across the organisation.
  • Lead the service planning component of the Annual Planning Cycle, supporting departments to develop and refine service plans that articulate service levels, demand, cost and improvement priorities.
  • Consolidate sub-service plans into a single organisation-wide service plan, identifying opportunities for collaboration, streamlining duplication and generating insights to inform future planning and prioritisation across areas including assets, property, finance, marketing and IT.
  • Own the integration between service planning and service reviews, sharing insights and learnings from the planning cycle to help shape and sequence the service review roadmap.
  • Ensure service review recommendations are translated back into service plans post-review, and track and monitor the implementation and ongoing effectiveness of service review actions.
  • Support the development of the City’s annual strategic priorities, including clear KPIs and standards of performance, and support the organisation to deliver against them.
  • Mentor and guide team members in building professional competence and collective knowledge.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have a tertiary qualification in Commerce or Business fields or significant professional experience in Commerce or Business fields in a comparable organisation.

Essential Experience:

  • Proven change management skills with the ability to be adaptable and facilitate business improvements in complex environments.
  • Strong presentation skills, including experience with using technology/applications to present information and persuade.
  • Well-developed writing, presentation, and speaking skills to align with stakeholders and achieve support for task outcomes.
  • Demonstrated people skills to support, influence, and collaborate with relevant stakeholders.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!

Child Safety Responsibilities  

We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy. 

Diversity and Inclusion 

At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience. 

We are the City

From parks to offices, childcare centres to works depots, leisure facilities to the Wool Museum and waterfront, our team plays a vital role in shaping our vibrant and growing community. Our community counts on us to get the essentials right while looking for ways to go beyond. By listening, collaborating, and focusing on sustainability, we strive to do the basics brilliantly and create a lasting impact. If you’re ready to be part of something bigger, join us in shaping the future of Geelong.

We support accessibility and encourage discussions about any adjustments or support you may need during the recruitment process.

Applications and Enquiries

Click the Position Description link to view more information about this position.

Enquiries: Nikki Short | Senior Talent Acquisition Partner | Nikki.Short@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at careers@geelongcity.vic.gov.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.

We collect demographic data to help us learn who our advertisements are reaching and how we can reach an even more diverse audience. We are committed to building a more diverse team. Your responses to our demographic questions are strictly confidential and will not be individually shared.

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City of Greater Geelong

About City of Greater Geelong

Derived from the local Wadawurrung Aboriginal name for the region, Djillong, which is understood to mean 'tongue of land'. Famous for our big city feel without the congestion, the stunning coast line, diverse night life and food culture, Geelong is a place for everyone. Located less than an hour from Melbourne, we are recognised as Victoria’s second city.

Geelong is a lifestyle city with a picturesque waterfront, parks, gardens, beaches, great dining and plenty of shopping all within 20 minutes of each other. Getting around is simple with easy to navigate road networks and intelligent bus networks making for a highly accessible city.

The region has a population of 225,000 residents who enjoy lifestyle options ranging from cosmopolitan inner-city, rural and semi-rural, to diverse suburban communities including many beachside townships. The Geelong region features some of the world's best surf beaches and is the entry point to the world famous Great Ocean Road.

We are one of the largest local government areas in Victoria. We provide around 130 services to the municipality oversee a budget of $400M, and employ over 2,700 staff. We are a growing city, with an economy of 16,000 businesses, $1.3b in current major construction, and a labour force of over 101,000 in the key employment areas of health, manufacturing and education.

We offer an exciting mix of jobs in areas as diverse as community development, arts, leisure, finance, child care, parks maintenance, aged care, IT, engineering and planning.

Our Vision

Greater Geelong: building our community through enterprise, opportunity and innovation in a quality environment

Our Mission

We will focus on developing and maintaining effective working relationships to deliver Council's strategic directions and high quality services that meet the changing needs of our community.

The City is an equal opportunity employer and values the contributions a diverse workforce can bring to the community.

Industry
Government & Public Safety
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Geelong, AU
Year Founded
Unknown
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