Description:
Lead the Provision Planning team within School Provision and Establishment Division (SPED), responsible for providing advice in relation to a range of Ministerial priorities with a focus on responding to population growth/change to ensure appropriate education infrastructure is delivered across Victoria.About the Department
The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives. It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society. The department supports a culture of leadership, learning and renewal in all workplaces with opportunities for career development and advancement.
About the Division
The School Provision and Establishment Division leads strategic oversight of programs and services that have a strong interface between the Schools and Regional Services Group and the Victorian School Building Authority (VSBA). The division's key functions include planning to meet Victoria's growing student population, end-to-end support for establishing new schools, and developing equitable enrolment policies.
About the Role
The Manager, Provision Planning role provides an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to lead the Provision Planning team within the School Provision and Establishment Division (SPED).
The incumbent will be responsible for a dynamic, responsive and cross-functional team, who provide high quality advice, project management and stakeholder engagement to enable the achievement of strategic objectives.
The Manager, Provision Planning will be responsible for leading the Provision Planning team within SPED. This team provides advice in relation to a range of Ministerial priorities with a focus on responding to population growth/change to ensure appropriate education infrastructure is delivered across Victoria. Priorities include reviewing the need for new schools or the need for additional capacity at existing schools. This high-profile team works closely with colleagues across the department, including regional colleagues, the VSBA and other parts of government.
Core responsibilities of the role include:
- Leading a team to provide high quality analysis and advice on provision planning matters to the department's Executive, government, Ministers, and other stakeholders.
- Preparing policy and technical advice to government to address school provision issues.
- Engaging and working collaboratively with key stakeholders, such as Schools and Regional Services, the VSBA, Local Government Authorities and other departments, identifying opportunities for collaboration, gaining commitment to projects, removing obstacles, ensuring a framework of activities to meet timelines, and ongoing communication.
- As manager of a team, overseeing a range of strategic projects, internal briefings, correspondence, submissions, reports and communications on provision planning matters, with a focus on effective utilisation of resources, alignment with department and government policy, service delivery options, and internal quality assurance.
- Identifying opportunities to evaluate and improve provision planning policy, guidelines and information, and knowledge management and sharing.
- Translating organisation goals into meaningful plans and actions and assisting in direction setting across the division.
- Building the capability of staff through professional development, and nurturing a high performing team to deliver on organisational goals.
Attributes
The Manager, Provision Planning must demonstrate:
- strong leadership and people management skills, with a commitment to develop capability of staff
- exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
- ability to engage with and communicate complex concepts and ideas, and apply them to operational settings
- demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- flexibility and adaptability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- strong written and verbal communication skills to engage a range of audiences on policy, program and implementation issues, and effectively influence stakeholders that hold competing priorities and views
- strong project management skills to ensure that deadlines are met
- commitment to continuous improvement and delivery of high quality outputs.
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications and experience in a relevant field, including public policy and social sciences, would be desirable.
Further Information
For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in the application.
The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page .
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au .
For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Lidia Orsini, Director, Infrastructure and Planning via (03) 8688 7785 or lidia.orsini@education.vic.gov.au.
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Applications close 11:59pm on Monday 28 April 2025.