Assistant Director, Change and Local Insights
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Assistant Director, Change and Local Insights
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Office for Early Childhood Development
About Us
The Office for Early Childhood Development was created to champion change and to help build a system that gives all South Australian children a flying start to life. Guided by the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care, the Office for Early Childhood Development is the steward of the early childhood development system in South Australia. The Office is tasked with a significant responsibility: bringing together a holistic, connected system for early childhood development across South Australia, with the goal of reducing the rate of children entering school developmentally vulnerable. Critical to this is the roll-out of universal 3-year-old preschool from ****, giving every child access to 2 years of teacher-led, play-based early learning before school.
Job Reference
Location
**** - Adelaide
Job Status
Long Term Contract
Eligibility
Open to Everyone
About This Role
The Assistant Director, Change and Local Insights plays a pivotal leadership role in guiding the implementation of early childhood reforms across the state, including the roll-out of universal 3-year-old preschool. This role will be crucial in ensuring that reforms are effectively adapted to local needs, fostering strong partnerships with local stakeholders, and leading teams dedicated to transformative change within communities. The Assistant Director, Change & Local Insights leads a network of four Local Teams, along with the local data and insight's function, ensuring the experience and evidence from communities directly shape how South Australia's early childhood reforms are delivered. Working closely with the Assistant Director, Change & Local Implementation, this position provides a unique opportunity to impact the early childhood landscape at a significant scale and presents the chance to lead innovative change initiatives, driving improved outcomes for children and influencing future policy and practice at both local and state levels. This position will have a strategic focus on collecting, analysing and reporting on insights and evidence from local stakeholder engagement processes, which will be used by the OECD to refine the holistic and connected system of stewardship and reform.
Your Key Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership and support to four Local Teams, developing and driving aligned change management strategies
Provide operational leadership, to maximise impact and efficiency to four local teams
Develop and maintain influential and productive partnerships with key stakeholders including long day care centres, government non-government preschool providers and other government and non-government agencies
Design and promote feedback mechanisms and act as a conduit between central policy and decision-making and local experiences and insights
Design, implement and lead strategic data and insights frameworks, tools and resources to support the monitoring and evaluation of local implementation efforts
Contribute to maintaining a safe and healthy work environment
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who brings:
Leadership and vision: Significant experience and demonstrated ability to lead teams and projects, setting clear objectives and drive strategic outcomes
Change management: Proven ability to lead the development and execution of change management strategies
Operational and project leadership: Experienced in leading dispersed teams and delivering strategic operational support, budget, and policy to advance early childhood outcomes and meet government objectives
Strategic thinking and problem-solving: Ability to devise effective strategies that align with overarching reform goals
Stakeholder management: Highly developed skills in managing relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders
Communication: Exceptional communication skills, capable of clearly articulating plans, inspiring collaboration, and negotiating effectively with stakeholders
Adaptability: Be adaptable to changes in work direction/focus
Autonomy: Demonstrated ability to operate under broad direction, exercise judgement, initiative, and delegated authority whilst managing high volumes of complex work
Information analysis and provision: Demonstrated ability to interpret complex data and provide expert policy advice to senior leaders
Achievement of outcomes: Proven ability to deliver high-level results independently under pressure, managing competing priorities and leading stakeholder consultation and negotiation
Coordination: Proven ability to plan, implement and coordinate programs and projects aligned with government policy
Desirable Skills
A degree in a related discipline would be highly regarded
Role Benefits
Opportunities for professional development and career growth within the SA public sector
Be part of an agency with a clear mission to improve the lives of South Australia's children and families
Access to valuable salary sacrifice benefits like car leases, portable electronic devices, mobile phones, airline lounge memberships, self-education expenses, and more. Ask us about how you can make your salary go further working at the OECD
Access to flexible working arrangements to get that work life balance
Application Instructions And Information
Applications should be made through the IWorkForSA website. Applicants must submit a CV, Pre-employment Declaration, and a cover letter outlining their suitability against the attached position description
Remuneration
MAS3 - $127,859 (1.0 FTE) per annum, plus superannuation of 12%
Additional Note
This is a 2-year term contract role (1.0 FTE) with potential to be made ongoing
Enquiries
Enquiries can be directed to
Special Conditions
For all other special conditions please refer to the attached position description
Applications close
*****/ :45 PM
Attachments
Organisation Chart – Change and Local Partnerships.pdf
Position Description – MAS3 Assistant Director, Change and Local Insights.pdf
Pre-Employment-Declaration_ .pdf
Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role
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