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About Us
Mornington Peninsula Shire Council is one of Victoria's largest councils, serving a diverse coastal and hinterland community. Their people are united by a commitment to sustainable growth, fit‐for‐purpose infrastructure, and creating a prosperous, inclusive future for the Mornington Peninsula.
What's on Offer
Mornington Peninsula Shire Council are partnering with Public Sector People to appoint an experienced contracts and procurement leader into a critical strategic role within their Finance and Procurement directorate.
This opportunity is a temporary full time role (38 hours per week), based in the Rosebud Office, for six months. We offer a hybrid working model, with 1-2 days on‐site as our preferred arrangement. Senior Officer (SO2), $166,911 to $178,570 per annum plus 12% super.
This is not a business‐as‐usual position. We are navigating a live fuel crisis with sector‐wide implications, a significant contract management redesign, and an imminent service review. We need someone who can step into complexity, bring structure, and deliver immediately.
About the Role
This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports, reporting into the Financial Controller. The right candidate will be comfortable operating at executive level, influencing without authority, and delivering across three high‐priority workstreams simultaneously.
Three Key Workstreams
* Fuel crisis and RTCCO response [Priority] – Lead the Shire's ongoing response to the fuel crisis, working closely with the Financial Controller and Legal Counsel on levies, surcharges, and obligations under the Road Transport Contractual Chain Order (RTCCO). We are well advanced in this space. This role exists to absorb that workload at a senior level.
* Contract management services redesign – Drive an existing redesign of the Shire's contract management function. This requires someone with hands‐on experience in organisational change within a contracts environment, ready to operationalise recommendations and embed new ways of working across the business.
* Service review implementation – With the Finance and Procurement Service Review recommendations due in mid‐2026, this role will play a central part in shaping the contracts and procurement response, including developing policies, frameworks and training to lift capability across the organisation.
About You
* Extensive experience in contracts and procurement, ideally within local, state or federal government or a similarly complex public sector environment
* Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading service reviews and translating recommendations into practical implementation
* Strong change and transformation leadership, including embedding new frameworks, policies and ways of working across an organisation
* Contractual acumen in commercial and financial contexts; exposure to fuel, transport or infrastructure contracts is advantageous
* Experience developing training programs, procurement policies and contract management frameworks
* Tertiary qualification in contract management, finance, law, business management, economics or a related discipline
* Ability to operate and influence at executive level without formal authority
Candidates with a background exclusively in the private sector are welcome to apply, though public sector experience is strongly preferred given the complexity and pace of this environment.
To find out more, please contact Amanda Li at Public Sector People on:
Email:
Phone: 03 8535 3111
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.
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