Change Practice Lead

 

About the Role 
Join Swinburne University of Technology as our Change Practice Lead and make a significant impact on our organizations transformation journey. As a senior leader, you will be instrumental in developing and enhancing our enterprise change management capability. Reporting to the Deputy Director, Portfolio and Project Delivery, you will lead a centralised change team within the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (ePMO) function.

In this role, you will provide strategic guidance, tools, and governance to support change initiatives across the university. You will play a key role in assessing and developing the change capability requirements and roadmap for the organization, ensuring the successful delivery of projects. Additionally, you will establish an organizational Change Management Centre of Excellence, driving the adoption of a standardized and people-focused change methodology and toolset.

As the Change Practice Lead, you will collaborate with various stakeholders to build change management capabilities within leaders, change practitioners, and employees. You will also be responsible for the people leadership of the change team, ensuring adequate staffing to meet project demands and driving recruitment, induction, and performance management processes.

If you are a seasoned change management professional with a passion for driving organizational change and building high-performing teams, we invite you to join us in this exciting opportunity to shape the future of Swinburne University of Technology. Apply now and be part of our dynamic and innovative team.

  

About You  
To be suitable for this role you will need to have experience in the below key accountabilities: 

• Extensive and broad change management experience across all areas of organisational change including large scale IT projects.  
• Experience in Human Centered Design, LEAN and/or Design Thinking 
• Experience in a organisational change management, relating to organisational re-design, culture and target operating model implementations 
• Experience in building change capability in large organisation 
• Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

 

Qualifications

• Post graduate qualifications in a relevant discipline with subsequent relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
• Relevant Change Management qualifications (PROSCI desirable)

About Swinburne University of Technology 
Swinburne Horizon 2025 draws upon our understanding of future challenges. With this new strategic plan, we choose to build Swinburne as the prototype of a new and different university – one that is truly of Technology, of Innovation and of Entrepreneurship, and proud of it. We are committed to a differentiated university proposition in education and research, so that:

• Every Swinburne learner gets a work experience
• Every Swinburne graduate gets a job
• Every Swinburne partner gets a tech solution
• Swinburne is the prototype of global best practice 

The achievement of our 2025 moon shots depends on our capacity to work collectively, always, as One Swinburne.

 

To Apply 
Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing your suitability for this position.  

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For more information about the role, please reach out to Eve echarif@swin.edu.au

Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children Check.

If you are experiencing technical difficulties with your application, please contact the Swinburne Talent Acquisition Team on staffrecruitment@swin.edu.au. 

Applications Close: Sunday April 28th at 11pm

Swinburne offers flexible working options, leave and parenting/carer policies to support work life balance.

 

Equity and Diversity
Swinburne is a large and culturally diverse organisation and we are proud of our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives.  For further information on all our initiatives visit our Equity & Diversity website.

We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates. If you have specific accessibility or support requirements please contact inclusion@swin.edu.au

 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
We welcome and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 

For any support please contact DeadlyCareers@swin.edu.au or for more information on our Indigenous strategies please follow the link to our RAP Reconciliation Action Plan

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