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

• Work Life Balance –We offer a hybrid working model, flexible working arrangements and generous leave provisions.
   
• 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.

• Security– Permanent Part-time role (0.8 FTE) based in the Rosebud office. Band 8 – from $125,613 per annum pro rata (excl. super).
   
• Career – Opportunity to grow and develop with excellent learning and development opportunities.
   
• Leadership – Contribute to the strategic outcomes delivered by Mornington Peninsula Shire with an organisation who focuses on our people and the community.

About the Role

We’re seeking a dynamic Change Lead to be the spearhead of our change initiatives and drive impactful results. Use your influence to make change happen – maximise value while safeguarding business continuity.

You will be responsible for developing and implementing cutting-edge change management strategies, methodologies, and frameworks tailored to our council's needs. Your expertise will be crucial in executing continuous improvement projects and programs, providing expert guidance to ensure smooth transitions and successful outcomes.

Reporting to the Team Leader Continuous Improvement the core responsibilities include:

• Develop and execute comprehensive change management framework and plans to support organisational initiatives and drive successful change adoption.
• Lead and manage change efforts, including enhancing team capability and building effective relationships with key stakeholders for broad and local support.
• Direct a change team to deliver impact assessments, heat maps, and feedback mechanism, while collaborating with CI facilitators and crafting change and communication strategies for priority projects.
• Design impactful change management strategies and interventions, collaborating closely with stakeholders to develop tailored change plans.
• Ensure customer experience remains central to transformation efforts and support the implementation of continuous improvement programs, aligning with strategic goals and community expectations.
• Build collaborative and outcome-focused relationships at all levels of the Council.
• Work closely with other members of the Customer & Service improvement unit to ensure effective and consistent service for Council.

About You

• Proven experience in successfully leading a complex and extensive change portfolio, preferably in a service-related field within a medium to large enterprise.
• Experience with recognised change, project and Agile methodologies such as ProSci/ADKAR, Prince2, PMBOK or Scrum.
• Tertiary qualifications in business or organisational development / psychology or information technology.
• Highly developed emotional intelligence and self-awareness
• Experience in improving customer experience at an organisational level.

How to Apply

If this role sounds like you, click 'Apply'.

The Mornington Peninsula Shire is committed to creating a diverse and safe 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 the Position Description by clicking 'Apply'. For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact: Ajay Kumar, Team Leader Continuous Improvement on 0411 127 ***.

Applications Close: Thursday, 14th December 2025 at 5pm