Manager Leisure Projects - City of Hume, Australia - Hume City Council

Description

• Fixed Term Contract for 12 months, Full-time
• Join the Active Living team.

Hume City Council is one of Australia's fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

Coordinating the planning, implementation and, reporting and resourcing required to ensure the effective and timely delivery of Department projects, priorities, and outcomes.

What you'll be doing:

• The position will be responsible for the delivery of Leisure related major and minor projects in the Capital Work Programs.
• Co-ordinating identified continuous improvement projects to Leisure operations in the implementation phase in accordance with best project management practices.
• Liaise with other project manages on organisational wide projects and cross functional project teams across council on capital work requirements.
• Develop and lead the Business Plan strategy to ensure that Leisure delivers best practice with regards to customer experience, safety, and risk management.
• Business planning with internal teams to identify new projects as opportunities to be innovative and achieve best practice in the delivery of Leisure and recreation services to exceed community expectations.
• Day-today management of the projects, including liaising with contractors, suppliers, and providers to achieve the best project outcomes for Council.
• Facilitate and attend relevant meetings with stakeholders relevant to each project.

The skills and experience you'll bring to the role:

• Ensuring efficient and effective customer service delivery.
• Highly developed leadership skills and ability to work with various levels across the organisation to establish productive relationships, strong team cohesion and commitment to achieving a common purpose.
• Highly developed communication skills that enable complex issues to be articulated in a concise and persuasive manner to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability deliver capital projects on time, on budget, to specified standards and to meet strategic objectives.
• Provide expert advice in relation to the operational requirements and the planning for large scale leisure facilities and the ability to seek and obtain specialist information from an established and extensive professional network where required.
• Demonstrated ability to administer the financial operations of a major Leisure facility.
• Experience in leading and facilitating multi-disciplinary project teams and demonstrated knowledge and application of continuous improvement to enhance business performance.

Required Certifications & Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualification in a business or project management related discipline or lesser qualifications with substantial experience in the delivery of new and recurrent Leisure related capital works projects.
• Proven and demonstrated ability to deliver capital projects on time, on budget, to specified standards and to meet strategic objectives.

A leader in local government, we're committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We're better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We're in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check.