EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TRANSPORT STRATEGY

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW
Job category: Senior Executive
Job location:Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000
Job reference number: 100027
Employment type: Permanent Full-Time
Salary range: $0.0-$0.0

ABOUT YOU

This is your opportunity to shape the future of Transport for generations to come!
Our SICE branch delivers meaningful, long-term transport outcomes for customers, passengers, and communities—across all modes, locations, and life stages. We are seeking an inspiring executive leader to champion the voice of the customer and drive strategic transformation across Transport.
As Executive Director, Transport Strategy, you will bring a proven track record in leading complex, high-impact strategies and customer-focused initiatives. Your ability to engage stakeholders, navigate government processes, and influence in politically sensitive environments will be critical to your success.
You can cut through the noise and make complex ideas and topics easier to understand. As an accomplished strategist, your customer-centric approach to developing an enterprise-wide strategy, incorporating data analytics, global best practices, and emerging mobility trends, allows you to develop future-ready transport strategies that put people first.
This is a rare opportunity to shape Transport’s strategic direction, ensuring our efforts align with what customers need, experience, and expect.
You will provide trusted, strategic advice to executives, elected officials, and policymakers, enabling informed decisions that reflect the priorities of the communities we serve.

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field
• A collaborative leadership style that fosters innovation, excellence, and inclusion
• A passion for delivering outcomes that matter

Join us in building a transport system that works for everyone—now and into the future!

WHO WE ARE

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU’LL:

• Lead the development of enterprise-wide transport and customer strategies that are aligned with government priorities and centred on the needs and experiences of customers, passengers, and communities.
• Oversee strategic priority and enablement programs that mobilise cross-functional teams to turn strategy into action, fostering collaboration across the transport sector.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, elected representatives, and policymakers, providing clear, evidence-based guidance to support data driven decision-making in a complex, evolving transport landscape.
• Embed Aboriginal outcomes across Transport, empowering the Director Aboriginal Outcomes to lead the integration of Aboriginal voices, perspectives and culturally responsive initiatives into policy, strategy, and service delivery.
• Establish robust performance metrics, monitor progress, and implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure successful outcomes for customers, passengers and communities.
• Recruit and develop a high-performing team, fostering a collaborative, innovative and inclusive work environment where people feel empowered to thrive and deliver results.
• Listen, adapt, support your partners, and together, get things done.
• Show up, stay engaged, and deliver on what you promise.
  This is an ongoing Transport Senior Service Executive (2A) role. Please see the role description and Information Pack for more information

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ROLE, PLEASE CONTACT EFFIE.ROGARIS@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

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To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field
• A collaborative leadership style that fosters innovation, excellence, and inclusion
• A passion for delivering outcomes that matte