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.
About the Division The Information Management and Technology Division (IMTD) is responsible for supporting one of the largest technology networks in Victoria and leading the department's technology, digital capability, business systems and digital transformation.
This network consists of Schools, Corporate and Early Childhood Education (ECE) including a school user base of more than 1500 Government schools, 50,000 teachers and 650,000 students.
Our branch has an inclusive and supportive culture.
We work hard and are passionate about service excellence, and we have fun while we're doing it!
About the Role An exciting opportunity is available at the Department of Education for a Product Development Manager to provide strong leadership and technical governance across the department's product development teams, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Microsoft.NET (legacy).
The successful applicant will manage large, multidisciplinary teams who are responsible for the development, delivery and maintenance of an extensive suite of IT software applications and services, across these three platforms.
They will provide leadership for development services, platform administration, release management and DevOps.
They must be comfortable in implementing programs of change and capability uplift through a strategic lens.
The Digital Design and Innovation Branch has and continues to embark on a significant program of transformation.
This includes the re-definition of development practices to align with strong principles of platform-based approaches, configuration over customization, increased automation and establishment of best practices in DevOps and release management.
The successful candidate will have responsibility for establishing high-quality processes and standards to ensure operational excellence across delivery and support.
They will have proven success managing large teams, strong leadership capabilities to foster a great culture and the ability to establish strong relationships with senior executives and stakeholders.
Attributes To be successful in the Product Development Manager role you will be able to demonstrate your skills and experience across the following capabilities:
Personal Attributes: Flexibility and Adaptability working to find new ways to deliver outcomes and builds commitment in others to adopt new strategies.
Working Collaboratively to build a culture of collaboration across the relevant entity/group. Meaningful Outcomes: Systems Thinking to formulate potential courses of action to achieve objectives, through an in-depth understanding of the departmental environment and its systems.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement to drive a culture of quality by design, where quality practices are embedded in the service and solution delivery processes. Enabling Delivery: Digital and Technological Literacy as a Product Development Manager the incumbent drives coherence in IT strategy, across the relevant entity/group, to align IT capabilities against business outcomes.
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving consider a broad range of topics and works across the department and at senior levels to develop and deliver sustainable solutions. Authentic Relationships: Customer Focus assessing the effectiveness of service delivery, against leading services.
Influence and Persuasion to develop long-term and multi-phased plans to influence others. People Leadership: Knowledge Management and Business Continuity to embed knowledge management as an integral part of the relevant entity/group.
Managing People by role modeling ethical leadership through decision making and interactions with people.
Develop Capability by clearly defining role expectations, monitoring performance, providing timely and constructive feedback and facilitating team/individual development. Further Information For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.
The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page.
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.
For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Karen Dermody - Director Digital Design & Innovation via +61 3 7022 1832 or ******. Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks.
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Applications close 11:59pm on Friday 01 November 2024
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