Are you a strategic thinker with strong business acumen and a passion for driving organisational excellence?
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Business Manager (Directorate Performance) to play a key leadership role supporting the Directorate to deliver high-quality services, strong governance, and meaningful community outcomes.
You will lead forward planning and performance across the assigned directorate translating enterprise strategy into integrated, actionable plans, ensuring alignment, optimisation and enterprise performance for sustainable organisational outcomes.
Directorate Portfolios Including
Business Transformation and Performance
Community Strengthening
Infrastructure and Natural Assets.
Why work with us?
At Council, we're proud of our region. We collaborate with community to achieve truly sustainable outcomes, enhance our enviable lifestyle, and create award-winning places and spaces that are uniquely Sunshine Coast. So, if you love it here as much as we do, and you want to shape our region for the future – you'll want to join our team
With the vision to be Australia's most sustainable region -Connected. Liveable. Thriving, our region is a model of sustainability, where caring for our environment, creating vibrant communities and growing our local economy is a way of life.
About The Role
As the Business Manager (Directorate Performance), you will help turn corporate and directorate goals into clear, practical objectives that guide the work of teams across the directorate. You will lead the development of the directorate's strategic and business plans and ensure progress is regularly monitored through simple, effective performance routines.
Reporting to the Director and working closely with the leadership team, you will support the directorate to stay aligned, focused, and accountable. You will help teams understand priorities, track what matters, and build capability in ways that strengthen a positive, values‑driven culture. This role plays a key part in ensuring the directorate delivers on its commitments and continues to improve how it works.
You will provide high‑level advice, deliver robust business frameworks, and manage performance systems that enable evidence‑based decision‑making. This is a key role for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, builds strong relationships, and brings a proactive approach to enterprise performance and governance.
You will also lead a team in the delivery of day-to-day operations and support to the Director, including diary and meeting management, financial, people and business matters. Providing senior expert advice to the Director.
You will collaborate often with senior leaders of business functions in relation to service delivery as well as industry stakeholders and other Business Managers (Directorate Performance) to initiate and deliver enterprise initiatives focused on performance and long-term organisational sustainability.
About You
You are an experienced leader who can move comfortably between strategic thinking and operational delivery.
You Will Bring
Relevant qualifications in business, commerce, change management or other discipline.
Track record of experience leading and motivating enterprise performance, developing plans and systems, and providing senior expertise to executives, preferably in a government and political context.
High level judgement, researching, analytical and problem-solving skills, exercising initiative within broad policy, legislative and strategic frameworks.
Great leadership skills to foster employee engagement, connection and high performing, values-driven work culture.
Strong stakeholder management capability (internal and external) to deliver cross organisational initiatives focused on performance and sustainability.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate effective consultation, engagement, negotiation, conflict resolution and change management.
Our Culture & Employee Benefits
Council is committed to creating an inclusive, culturally diverse, healthy, skilled and dedicated workplace culture. As an employee you will enjoy a range of benefits which include but are not limited to:
Great working conditions with environments to support collaboration and connection.
Flexible working arrangements with options for some work from home opportunities.
Study Assistance and development opportunities through corporate learning and development programs.
Discounted health related memberships and other wellbeing initiatives including corporate Healthcare.
How To Apply
Your written application should include:
A 1-2 page cover letter demonstrating your ability to fulfil the mandatory and desirable requirements on the Position Profile. Keep the key responsibilities in mind when addressing this criteria; and
A current resume or curriculum vitae.
Once you have these two documents ready, click 'Apply Now' and follow the prompts to complete your application.
Further Information
Helpful information to assist you in completing your application is available on the Sunshine Coast Council website.
To learn more about Council's vision and projects, you can view the Corporate Plan
For specific enquiries contact Jaimee McDavitt, HR Business Partner during business hours on
We're working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Recruitment Team
At Sunshine Coast Council, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background including First Nations, disability, religion and sexual orientation. To deliver the best service to our region we want a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Sunshine Coast Council strongly encourages all suitable applicants to apply for this role.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Management and Manufacturing
Industries
Government Administration