Senior Adviser Organisational Development

About Us
The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.

The People Experience Branch
The People Experience Branch partners with leaders across its customer departments to design and deliver contemporary people strategies, services and initiatives that build a capable, engaged and high-performing workforce. Working collaboratively with executives and business areas, the branch strengthens workforce capability, fosters employee engagement, and cultivates a positive, inclusive and psychologically safe workplace culture that enhances organisational performance and enables the department to achieve its strategic objectives.

About the role
We are looking for a Senior Adviser, Organisational Development to join our collaborative OD team and help shape how our department and customer departments plan, structure and support their workforces.

Working in a fast-paced shared services environment, you’ll lead and deliver strategic OD initiatives that strengthen organisational capability, leadership, culture and performance.

You’ll bring experience translating workforce insights into practical, evidence-informed solutions and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to deliver positive workforce outcomes. Experience in strategic workforce planning, diversity, equity and inclusion (including gender equality) and organisational design will be highly valued.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and support the development and implementation of a range of strategic organisational development, activities to improve organisational effectiveness, workforce capability and performance.
• Apply well developed specialist skills and insights to lead and manage whole of organisation and targeted organisational development programs and initiatives that clearly align with business objectives and requirements.
• Lead and support the project management and delivery of the People Matter Survey, including planning, promotion analysis of results debriefs to senior executives and the management of the relationship with the Victorian Public Service Commission.  Provide high-level reporting related to the People Matter Survey making recommendations on suggested actions. 
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative insights (including workforce and employee experience data, surveys and stakeholder engagement) to diagnose organisational issues, identify trends, inform decision-making and evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives.
• Provide research, analysis and advice to the Director and other senior leaders on trends and issues in the organisational development area which contribute to the continuous improvement of workforce strategies and priorities.
• Measure, monitor and review Organisational Development initiatives providing advice and guidance to the people leaders through the provision of relevant data and information.
• Provide strategic change management advice as required ensuring best practice principles of consultation and engagement.
• Establish and develop partnership relationships with key stakeholders across the departments to build and maintain long-term trusting relationships, understand their business needs, successfully implement initiatives, and identify and respond to emerging issues and trends. 
• Collaborate and partner with the broader team to ensure advice and support is tailored to meet the needs and expectations of the business. Keep abreast of research and trends in best practice organisational development and identify opportunities to incorporate into OD strategy, processes and content. 

Technical Expertise

·         Organisational Development Practice: Demonstrated experience applying organisational frameworks and methodologies to improve organisational effectiveness, leadership, culture and capability.

·         People insights: Demonstrated experience analysing and interpreting data from multiple sources.

Mandatory requirements

·         Relevant tertiary qualifications in human resources, organisational development, organisational psychology or related discipline would be desirable.

This is an ongoing role. The position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia. 

For more information and the key selection criteria, please see the Position Description. 

How to apply:
Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on Thursday, 12 November 2026. All applications should include: 

• a resume; and  
• a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages).
  
  

Other relevant information:
To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident.  Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Pre-employment Declaration and Consent Form. Employment of successful candidates will be subject to a National Police Check.  

The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (OH&S Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which strongly recommends all DGS employees be fully vaccinated.   

DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.