- Alignment to the Victorian Public Sector Values.
- Proven experience to successfully lead and manage large scale procurements, commercial negotiations and commercial contracts for strategic outcomes.
- Proven leadership, communication, stakeholder management, customer experience and interpersonal skills to drive strategic outcomes.
- Significant experience leading business process, systems and data improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to provide authoritative advice to Ministers, Secretary and Senior executives on key asset, infrastructure and operational issues.

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES

- Organisational awareness
- Commercial acumen
- Political acumen
- Strategic, agile and critical thinking
- Influence and negotiation
- Pragmatic and results oriented

Selection Criteria

- Alignment to the Victorian Public Sector Values.
- Proven experience to successfully lead and manage large scale procurements, commercial negotiations and commercial contracts for strategic outcomes.
- Proven leadership, communication, stakeholder management, customer experience and interpersonal skills to drive strategic outcomes.
- Significant experience leading business process, systems and data improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to provide authoritative advice to Ministers, Secretary and Senior executives on key asset, infrastructure and operational issues.

REQUIRED CAPABILITIES

- Organisational awareness
- Commercial acumen
- Financial management
- Political acumen
- Strategic, agile and critical thinking
- Influence and negotiation
- Stakeholder management
- Pragmatic and results oriented

Role

Director, Asset Operations

Responsibilities





The Director Asset Operations is responsible for leadership and management of operations to support the delivery of safe, accessible, clean and well-maintained school and kindergarten facilities.

This role has a strong focus on customer relations, budget management, contract management and business improvement and has the following accountabilities:

- Providing vision, leadership and support in the delivery of state-wide facilities programs for school and kindergarten infrastructure, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and government objectives.
- Managing service providers to ensure the delivery of timely, cost-effective works for the benefit of Victorian Government schools and kindergartens.
- Manage programs within budget and ensuring policy and program settings are right to achieve the organisation's objectives and leading change processes where needed.
- Stakeholder management, particularly in relation to schools, kindergartens and other areas of the Department.
- As an executive member of the VSBA, participate effectively in the development of major resourcing policies and corporate strategies, and disseminate and implement decisions appropriately.
- Provide authoritative specialist advice and service support to Ministers, the Secretary and the VSBA Executive Leadership Team.




- Build large scale commercial contract management capabilities across the VSBA, including through training, sound capability planning and competency frameworks.

The role requires working closely and collaboratively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including school, early learning and sector stakeholders, Department central office and regional leadership teams and key government departments.

Who May Apply

- Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department.The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces.It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (seeWorkplace adjustment guidelines).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via***@education.vic.gov.au

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📌 Director, Asset Operations (Melbourne)
🏢 Government schools
📍 Melbourne