Associate Director

Job description

About the Role:

• Exceptional executive level opportunity to join a large organisation in Sydney’s to drive organisational reform in how training and L&D is delivered for an NSW wide stakeholder group. This will be a rewarding, once in a lifetime role that will enable the successful candidate to be involved in future proofing this industry’s operations and safety framework.
• This opportunity would suit an innovative, creative L&D professional that has operated at a high level and has intimate knowledge in developing and delivering learning programs across blue-collar stakeholder groups.
• You won’t be afraid to challenge the status quo and will have demonstrable experience in overcoming resistance from key stakeholders (in sometimes unionized environments) and achieving the set milestones. This role NOT suit somebody who procrastinates on key issues but rather takes them head on, driving necessary change from within the L&D function.

Key accountabilities:

• Lead the development of technical and operations programs and requirements which in turn enable the organisation and facilitate design and delivery as needed.
• Drive processes and practices that enable understanding and prioritising of critical technical capabilities required for the organisation to deliver services to customers.
• Partner with People Partners and the Centres of Excellence to deliver holistic capability development programs in the area of nominated disciplines across the organisation.  
• Define robust mechanisms and conduct regular reviews to ensure ‘catalogue’ programs in the nominated disciplines adherence to regulatory requirements of the organisation.  
• Lead the continuous improvement of programs across the organisation including awareness of best practice to ensure that the Cluster can take advantage of developments in the particular fields of expertise.
• Lead and develop a strong, effective and efficient professional team which functions cohesively as part of the broader team through building the capability of each team member and effectively collaborating with other business units to ensure an outcome and values led approach.
• Develop and manage project plans, budgets and risk management plans consistent with the organisation, the Divisional Plan and the Learning Delivery Plan.
• Review and improve business systems and processes, and report monthly on activities, performance, trends and issues against plans and budgets.
• This is a high-level role that will encounter some challenges:
• The right candidate will be somebody who enjoys working in a complex environment while ensuring that all requirements are captured and consistently translated into high quality Learning solutions.
• You will also be somebody who is able to manage strategy and delivery requirements for a diverse range of complex programs with varying requirements within tight timeframes across a diverse organisation.
• Furthermore, you will ensure current and future workforce needs to be well understood and supported by required workforce capability whilst effectively managing stakeholder expectations.

About you:

• Demonstrable high-level L&D experience from an Education industry or large Industrial organisations
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field or relevant equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience in developing education and training program requirements across ‘blue collar’ stakeholders in complex business environments

Apply:
Please send your resume through to vas@charterhouse.com.au or call Vasil Spassov on
02 9641 5126