Senior Organisational Design Specialist

Location: Can be based at any Metro or Regional campus, with regular travel across all campus locations
Role Type: Permanent, Full Time | Flexible Working Options Available
Salary: circa $150K plus 12% superannuation

About us
At Bendigo Kangan Institute (BKI), we change lives through the power of education and skills. As a Victorian public TAFE and public sector entity, BKI brings together Bendigo TAFE, Kangan Institute, VETASSESS and eWorks to deliver future-ready skills, training, assessment and lifelong learning opportunities.

As a public sector education entity, BKI operates in a complex, regulated and purpose-led environment, supporting learners, industry and communities across Victoria. This role will help shape the structures, ways of working and workforce foundations needed to deliver our ambitions in a complex, multi-campus public vocational education environment.

The Opportunity
As our Senior Organisational Design Specialist, you’ll partner with Executives and senior leaders to design the structures, operating models and workforce solutions that enable BKI to deliver on its strategic ambitions.

Working across a diverse and evolving organisation, you’ll lead complex organisational design initiatives from concept through to implementation. You’ll provide specialist advice, support evidence-based decision making and help ensure changes are well governed, understood and embedded.

If you're someone who enjoys solving complex organisational challenges, influencing senior stakeholders and designing solutions that create lasting impact, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Lead enterprise-wide organisational design, operating model and job architecture projects aligned to strategic priorities.
• Partner with Executives and senior leaders to develop contemporary organisational structures and workforce solutions.
• Analyse workforce, organisational capability and financial data to inform evidence-based recommendations.
• Facilitate workshops and collaborate across People & Culture, Finance and business leaders to co-design sustainable solutions.
• Develop executive papers, frameworks, consultation materials, transition plans and implementation plans.
• Support governance, risk assessment and evaluation of organisational design changes, including post-implementation review and continuous improvement.

What You'll Bring
You’ll be an experienced organisational design professional who combines strategic thinking with commercial acumen, sound judgement and strong stakeholder influence.

You'll bring:

• Extensive experience leading complex organisational design, operating model, job architecture or workforce transformation initiatives in a large and complex organisation.
• The ability to build trusted relationships and advise Executives and senior leaders through sensitive change, consultation and implementation processes.
• Strong analytical capability, including experience interpreting workforce, financial and organisational data.
• Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues and influence decision-making.
• A collaborative, people-centred approach and confidence working in regulated or industrially sensitive environments.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Organisational Development, Business or a related discipline will be highly regarded. Experience in the public sector, education, unionised or similarly regulated environments is advantageous.

We can offer you:

• Flexible work options and attractive work-life balance
• Free onsite parking at most campuses
• Professional development opportunities
• Fitness Passport access for you and your family
• EAP, health and wellbeing initiatives
• Meaningful work that drives positive social impact  
• Career opportunities with one of Australia’s leading vocational education and training providers

The Essential Paperwork:

• Working with Children Clearance (WWCC)
• Current police check
• Certified right to work documentation
• Certified copies of your qualifications and transcripts

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Only applications from candidates with valid working rights will be considered. We are a child safe and equal opportunity employer, and the successful candidate will be required to hold a current Working with Children Check clearance.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse people, LGBTIQA+ people and people of all ages.

Bendigo Kangan Institute acknowledges that our campuses are located on the ancestral lands of the Djaara people of Dja Dja Wurrung, Wurundjeri Peoples of the Kulin Nations, Yorta Yorta Nations and the Gunaikurnai people. The Institute respects their Elders past, present and emerging, their cultural heritage, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.