Director Projects and Business Engagement

Job Description

DIRECTOR PROJECTS & BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT

For a copy of the Position Description, click here .
 

Victoria University (VU) is seeking a visionary and inclusive leader who will be committed to promoting and positioning VU as a student-centric, service-led university.

• Exciting opportunity within our new Digital and Campus Services team
• Full-time, Leadership role
• Located at our Footscray Park campus

 

About the Role:

Working within a collaborative leadership team and reporting to the Chief Digital Officer and Executive Director Campus Services , this key leadership role within the Digital and Campus Services (DCS) portfolio will provide excellence in leadership and direction for Business Engagement and our Project Management Office and associated delivery teams

As the Director of Projects & Business Engagement, you will play a pivotal role in leading and overseeing all aspects of project management and business engagement activities. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and completion of projects and enhancements, as well as fostering strong relationships with key business stakeholders.

 

About Victoria University:

Victoria University has a bold and ambitious new vision and a seven-year strategic plan characterised by five strategic drivers. VU has innovated a new pedagogic and curriculum approach: the VU Block Model. This, along with the VU First Year College, have been among the most significant learning and teaching developments in the Australian tertiary education sector over the past decade.

VU TAFE is renowned for digital innovation in its delivery, evident through the Sunshine Skills Hub and is a highly valued industry collaborator.

Victoria University is one of the top ten sports science universities in the world with more recent, yet equally profound, achievements in health sciences, immunology, green engineering, the circular economy, and Indigenous history.

 

About You:

VU’s collaborative working environment will help you thrive and achieve the best outcomes for yourself, the solutions you lead and the diverse teams you inspire. You will have:

• High degree of independent decision making as well as collaborative decision making in consultation with other leaders
• Experience in leading, managing, and shaping high performance teams.
• Develop and implement effective project management strategies to achieve organisational goals and objectives.
• Maintain and monitor industry leading tools, techniques and practices in new ways of working for both continuous delivery and program/project delivery.
• End to end delivery of significant digital transformation and related digital programs, projects and enhancements to achieve organisational objectives. 
• Oversee risk management and mitigation strategies to ensure project and enhancement delivery success.
• Experience in building and managing relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and the executive team to align project and business engagement strategies with overall company goals.
• Ability to drive profitability and margin improvement by improving operational efficiencies, process innovation, and continuous process improvement.
   

Conditions & Benefits:

This full-time position will be offered on a 3-year fixed term contract basis. A highly attractive remuneration package is on offer, including an employer superannuation contribution of up to 17%.
 

How to APPLY:

To view a copy of the position description, please click here .

In a SINGLE document , your application must include:

• A cover letter outlining your motivation to apply for this opportunity.
• Your resume
• A statement addressing the key selection criteria listed in the position description

For further information relating to the position or recruitment process, please contact Caterina Scordo, Recruitment Coordinator by email at [email protected]

Applications close at 5:00pm Wednesday 24th January 2024

About Us
Victoria University (VU) is the  University of the West .
For more than 100 years, Victoria University (VU) has offered accessible education to students in Melbourne’s west and beyond.
We are one of Australia’s few dual-sector universities, with currently over 40,000 enrolled vocational and higher education students studying across our campuses.
Our moral purpose is to provide vocational and higher education that transforms the lives of students and the communities we serve. Our values are a living set of actions that underpin our moral purpose.
The VU Values are that we are always:
• welcoming
• ethical
• shaping the future 
• together.
This is the VU Way. We are always WEST.
At VU we believe diversity is a strength – the more diverse perspectives, identities, cultural backgrounds, ages and experience of our students and staff, the better our working environment, research and educational experience of our students.
With a culturally diverse population of students and staff from a wide range of backgrounds, we strive to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment where all students and staff are respected, valued and enabled to thrive.