ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives. It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society.

CAPABILITIES

The ideal candidate is a results-driven leader with proficiency in collaborative teamwork, strategic planning, and visionary thinking. They excel in navigating political contexts, demonstrating prowess in critical thinking, stakeholder management, and ethical leadership. Fostering a performance-driven culture, this candidate empowers teams to achieve optimal outcomes.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

• Desirable: a bachelor’s degree in education, public policy or a relevant discipline

The Strategy Manager will contribute to strategic projects at every stage of the policy cycle, including research, analysis, development of options, preparation of reports and advice, project planning and support for implementation.

The role requires:

• the ability to deal with complex concepts and analytical challenges comfortably and express these concepts through well-developed written communication.
• policy skills to undertake policy analysis focused on the system levers that drive quality school-based education.
• effective relationship building, influencing and collaboration skills to ensure policy recommendations are informed by diverse perspectives and are supported by our key partners.
• the ability to use project management concepts to manage deliverables, manage risks, and adjust to shifting priorities whilst taking initiative and accountability for one’s own work.
• use of written, verbal and visual language to convey and obtain information, insights and ideas in a way that is compelling, persuasive and appropriate to the audience.

While the position does not require detailed knowledge of the education system, this would be advantageous, as would prior experience in strategic policy, data analysis, and policy implementation design and planning.
The role sits within a high-performing team that brings a learning mindset and passion to driving policy reform that improves outcomes for children and young people. The role is available on a full-time basis, but flexible arrangements will be considered.