Senior Manager IT and Digital Transformation

at  UnitingSA

At UnitingSA, we’re all about respect, compassion and justice, and empowering South Australians to overcome life’s challenges. Established in 1919, today our team of more than 1,000 employees and volunteers deliver critical housing, aged care and community services to more than 12,000 South Australians in need every year.
Every aspect of what we do is unified by determination, a respect for everyone’s unique worth and a passion for empowering people. Explore our vision and values: https://unitingsa.com.au/about-us/

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Experience implementing digital transformation and organisational change and fostering digital culture and capability development
• Experience identifying and evaluating emerging disruptive trends, including digitalisation and data analytics, analysing potential opportunities and risks and barriers to adoption
• Proven leadership experience of IT operations including planning, budgeting and people development
• Excellent negotiation skills and experience consulting across a multi-disciplined business
• Demonstrated ability in developing IT strategy whilst delivering on operational requirements
• Ability to analyse risk and develop mitigation strategies for business
• Excellent knowledge of computer hardware/software systems, technical management and information analysis and communication technologies
  In return, you will work in a passionate and motivated organisation where you can see firsthand the positive difference you make in the lives of our community’s most vulnerable. We believe in developing and investing in our team and providing work/life balance through flexible work arrangements.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

This is an exciting opportunity to join UnitingSA’s team as the Senior Manager, IT and Digital Transformation. This role is responsible for leading the delivery of digital transformation projects, driving their implementation and providing strategic and operational leadership to the Information Technology team to collaboratively deliver exceptional customer experiences and streamline operational efficiencies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare and review project scopes in collaboration with Chief Financial Officer
• Monitor project completion and implement effective project evaluation methodologies
• Ensure network infrastructure, hardware, software applications and communication systems function reliably and effectively
• Provide leadership, direction and support to the IT team
• Lead technological research with an understanding of organisational goals, strategies, practices and projects
• Preserve assets by implementing disaster recovery and backup procedures, information security and control structures
• Actively manage the resources and cost of IT services by forecasting requirements, preparing operating and capital budgets, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective action
• Ensure professional and technical knowledge is current and relevant to business objectives and future requirements
• Lead the IT team to ensure IT services comply with the standards of the UnitingSA IT security framework