Senior Manager - Geelong, Australia - WorkSafe Victoria

Description

Government - State (Government & Defence)

WorkSafe is Victoria's workplace health and safety regulator. We are also the workplace injury insurer. Our job is to reduce workplace harm and improve outcomes for injured workers. This is our promise to the Victorian community and the reason we exist.

• $157,266.00 per annum + superannuation
• Full Time, fixed term position until 13/6/2025 (parental leave)

Purpose

The Senior Manager Prevention Excellence provides support to the Director Programs in strategic planning and decision making processes and oversees the Prevention Excellence function, which is responsible for providing thought leadership, ensuring alignment and driving continuous improvement across the Programs branch.

The Senior Manager Prevention Excellence will lead a multi-disciplinary team including evaluation and monitoring and project support. This team drives continuous improvement by ensuring systemic issues are identified and acted on globally, provides analysis and recommendations to improve health and safety outcomes for Victorian workers and supports knowledge management, as well as managing program standards, reporting and governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will provide effective leadership to, and manage a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team fostering a culture of innovation and thought leadership
• You will oversee the project planning lifecycle prcess across the Programs branch to ensure alignment, consistency and quality of output.
• You will drive proactive identification and escalation of issues, risks and dependencies across portfolios
• You will also develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders and work collaboratively, to identify and understand their views, utilising a variety of negotiation, presentation, communication and education techniques
• You will contribute advanced expertise and knowledge to strategic planning, reporting and governance processes and influence business planning processes across WorkSafe to ensure alignment with business priorities and strategic direction
• Finally you will provide strategic advice, problem solving and issues management for stakeholders in relation to complex and potentially controversial matters

Please ensure you take a look at the Position Description here for additional information on accountabilities for this role.

About you

You are an experienced people leader who wants to make a difference. Your communication and organisational skills are exemplary- You have a passion for health & safety. You are a team oriented person who enjoys leading an impact on your team and stakeholder.

You will also possess:

• A knowledge of or experience working in Occupational Health & Safety, with understanding of regulatory approaches preferred
• You have relevant technical and tertiary qualifications, skills and/or experience in public service, business management / administration, project managementor related fields
• You also have a demonstrated proficiency and significant experience in managing multiple complex and high profile projects to achieve sustainable outcomes
• You have extensive experience in people leadership including experience in leading a diverse multidisciplinary team and demonstrated capability to motivate and develop employees
• Finally, you have experience of managing and influencing senior and diverse stakeholder groups

Working with Us

At WorkSafe, we aspire for every employee to feel connected, safe and valued in their team, for teams to feel valued in the workplace, and for WorkSafe to be valued in the community.

We believe that a diverse workforce is the key to delivering the best outcomes for the Victorian community and strongly encourage applications from all people, including First Nations people and people with disability, diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, sexualities and genders.

What's next?

Applications close 11:00pm on Tuesday 30th April, 2024. Click the link to apply, and join us in making a difference to Victorian lives.

Only people with the right to work in Australia may apply for this position. You may be required to undergo a National Police Check (and/or Medical Assessment) as part of the recruitment process.

Candidate screening may take place prior to the advertisement closing, so get your application in.

For further enquiries please contact Talent Acquisition Specialist, Rebecca McPherson via email [email protected]

About us

WorkSafe's Strategy has our core purpose front of mind - reducing workplace harm and improving outcomes for injured workers. We don't shy away from the importance of our purpose to the Victorian community, that's why we have a stated ambition to be world leading.

We want Victoria to be the safest place to work in Australia and one of the safest in the world; and we aspire to be a world leader in return to work after a workplace injury.

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