Strategy Partner

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498806
Work type:
Permanent Full Time
Classification:
Band 7 ($100,064 - $110,990 pa)
Categories:
Business Strategy &
Improvement

About the role
Reporting to the Corporate Planning and Performance Lead, the Strategy Partner (Corporate Analyst), will play a pivotal role in driving the implementation of integrated strategy development. This role is instrumental in driving and embedding strategic alignment across the organisation and moulding strategic direction in alignment with statutory regulations.

Work type:
Permanent Full time
Classification:
Band 7 ($100,064 - $110,990pa plus Superannuation)

About Us:
Join the Corporate Services Directorate, where we're committed to delivering exceptional internal services to empower the City's success. As part of the Transformation Office, you'll collaborate across departments to drive strategic priorities and enhance performance. Be part of a team dedicated to fostering innovation, continuous improvement, and organisational excellence.

Key Position Responsibilities:

• Cultivating and nurturing strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including Executive Directors and Senior Leadership Team members, to foster collaborative and effective engagement.
• Driving cross-functional collaboration and promoting effective ways of working to ensure a mutual understanding of the importance of performance reporting across the organisation.
• Partnering with the organisation during the Annual Business Planning Cycle, ensuring alignment and accountability through the Accountability Framework.
• Collaborating with senior leaders to continuously improve the business planning process and embedding it into the organisation's operations.
• Coordinating strategic discussions and planning activities with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring informed decision-making.
• Assisting in the development of annual strategic priorities, KPIs, and standards of performance for assigned directorates.
• Leading the operational tracking of performance KPIs and reporting, providing strategic guidance and ensuring quality and timely delivery of organisation performance reporting.
• Facilitating monthly content collation for the City's performance forum (Business Review Meeting), focusing on quality control and continuous improvement.
• Engaging in discussions with senior leaders regarding the development, refinement, and review of organisational performance indicators.
• Supporting the development of strategy briefing templates under the guidance of the Strategy Lead.

About you
To be successful in this role, you will have

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, or related field.
• Proven experience in stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex data and communicate insights effectively.
• Experience in strategic planning and performance reporting within a municipal or government context is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Proficiency in Integrated Planning and Reporting Software systems is an advantage.

If you're ready to drive impactful change and contribute to organisational success, apply now to join our team!

Child Safety Responsibilities
We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy.

Diversity and InclusionAt the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience.

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.

We're going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it's important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity because inclusion makes us stronger.

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

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Advertised:
18 Jun 2024 3:
00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close:
09 Jul :
55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time

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