About Us
Mornington Peninsula Shire is Victoria's destination municipality, characterised by unique townships, highly productive agriculture, world renowned landscapes, tourist regions, and areas of national and international conservation significance within a vital Green Wedge.
The Shire is responsible for a broad range of infrastructure and community services that support the wellbeing and prosperity of our diverse community.
With approximately 1,000 employees, it is a busy and vibrant workplace.
What's on Offer
Meaningful Project Work– Play a key role in delivering workforce initiatives that support organisational priorities and help shape effective people solutions across Mornington Peninsula Shire
Work Life Balance– Benefit from our hybrid working model and supportive team environment that promotes work-life balance.
Culture– Positive, fun and inclusive work environment that is underpinned by our core values which are integral to everything we do.
These are Integrity, Openness, Courage, Respect, and Excellence.
Opportunity– Temporary full-time role (6-month contract), based in the Rosebud office.
Band 7 -$111,379annual salary (excl. super).
About the Role
Reporting to the Team Leader - People Services, you will lead a key workforce project to design and implement a centralised casual and contingent workforce program for Mornington Peninsula Shire.
Working closely with leaders and stakeholders across the organisation, you will establish the frameworks, processes, governance and systems required to support the effective engagement,



deployment and management of temporary workforce resources and transition the program into business-as-usual operations within the People Services team.
The core responsibilities include:
Partnering with leaders and stakeholders across the organisation to design and implement a centralised casual and contingent workforce model.
Developing workforce streams, job family frameworks and capability requirements to support workforce planning and deployment decisions.
Reviewing business requirements and working with key stakeholders to identify and implement fit-for-purpose workforce systems and processes.
Establishing governance frameworks, compliance requirements, service standards and operational procedures to ensure a consistent and compliant workforce service.
Designing processes for the recruitment, onboarding, training, deployment and ongoing management of casual and contingent workers.
Leading stakeholder engagement, change management and implementation activities to successfully transition the program into day-to-day operations within People Services
About You
To be successful in this role, you will bring a combination of workforce expertise, project delivery experience and the ability to build strong relationships across a complex organisation.
The ideal candidate will have:
Demonstrated experience leading workforce, HR or organisational projects that have delivered sustainable business outcomes.




Experience working within Local Government or another large, complex and highly regulated organisation.
Strong understanding of a workforce frameworks, including job families, capability frameworks, workforce planning approaches or talent pool models.
Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across business units to understand operational needs and drive change.
Experience developing and embedding governance, compliance requirements, processes and operating procedures.
Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, exercise sound judgement and deliver outcomes in an evolving project environment.
How to Apply
If this role sounds like you, click'Apply'.
The Mornington Peninsula Shire is committed to creating a diverse and secure environment.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity and Child Safe employer.
We encourage applications from First Nations people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.
Mornington Peninsula Shire undertakes a variety of employment screening checks.
This includes employment references, Working with Children Checks and Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC).
Applicants must have valid Australian work rights.
For further information about the role, you can download thePosition Descriptionby clicking'Apply'.
For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact:Katy Irvine, Team Leader – People Services on ************.
Applications Close: 11:59pm, Sunday 16 August ****

📌 Workforce Project Implementation Lead (Melbourne)
🏢 Mornington Peninsula Shire
📍 Melbourne