About the role
In this role, you will also play a part in increasing education, training opportunities and outcomes for City of Greater Geelong staff using ‘in-house’, Educational and Learning Institutes and industry partners to deliver relevant skill sets to employees.

Work type:  Permanent full time
Classification: Band 6 ($90,263-$97,365 pa plus super)

Key responsibilities include:

• Plan, design, develop, implement and monitor a divisional staffing capabilities framework to enhance employee capability, with particular focus on OHS training requirements and compliance thereof (including special engagement).
• Ensure identified employee skill gaps are addressed through accredited training providers or development opportunities within your control.
• Facilitate the technical development program in line with defined succession plans.
• Undertake proactive and periodic review of training content, training documents, legislation to ensure currency, relevance, accuracy and the City’s compliance thereof.
• Source and engage suitable accredited training materials and providers and coordinate training delivery with People Leaders and participants.
• Ensure all compliance training records are current and appropriately stored.
• Manage divisional training budget to ensure cost effective training delivery.  

About you
To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrated experience in development, delivery and assessment of vocational education and training programs.

Essential:

• Demonstrated experience in training program design and development and awareness of contemporary adult training practice and methodologies.
• Experience in interpreting legislation, policy and procedure documentation with an ability to translate these into operation and work practice to ensure training compliance.
• Ability to produce and analyse reports/documents and summarise relevant issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Capacity to plan, organise and manage time with minimal supervision to effectively establish priority schedules and manage tasks, to ensure work priorities are completed independently and within defined timelines.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and time management skills and the ability to meet set priorities.
• Ability to demonstrate sound problem-solving initiative and recommend and carry out solutions.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! 

Child Safety Responsibilities  
We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy. 

Diversity and Inclusion 
At the City we want a workforce that reflects the community we live in. We welcome and embrace everyone, all people with their own unique experiences, and support and encourage all our employees to do their best work, have equal access to opportunities and a just working environment. For this reason, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from First Nations people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, from the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disability and people of all genders, ages and diverse experience. 

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.  

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger. 

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language.  Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people.  We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you. 

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning 

Applications and Enquiries

Click the Position Description link to view more information about this position.

Enquiries:  Justin Boardman | Team Leader Quality Assurance | 5272 5134 | JBoardman@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at careers@geelongcity.vic.gov.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.

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