Make a significant impact and join our Transformation team at Swinburne University

Full-time, ongoing position based at our Hawthorn campus

Hew 9 Salary + 17% super and staff benefits

About the Role

The Transformation Governance and Planning Lead drives the delivery of a clear, prioritised transformation portfolio aligned to Swinburne’s strategic ambitions.

Working closely with the Director, Transformation Management Office (TMO), you’ll provide expert advice to senior leaders and governance forums—shaping investment decisions and enabling confident, outcome-driven transformation.

You’ll elevate portfolio investment governance and prioritisation practices, designing fit-for-purpose frameworks and driving continuous improvement, with a strong focus on value and benefits realisation. You’ll also own the integrated transformation roadmap, ensuring visibility, alignment, and informed decision-making across the University.

Partnering with stakeholders across Strategy & Transformation, Finance, and the broader organisation, you’ll embed consistent, high-quality investment governance practices that support delivery at scale.

About You

To be suitable for this role you will need to have experience in the below key accountabilities:

• Lead the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the University’s investment governance frameworks, standards and processes for projects and programs. Ensure alignment with strategic objectives, delivery needs, and compliance requirements.
• Define clear investment governance pathways, decision rights, stage gates and escalation mechanisms across the full initiative lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain an integrated portfolio roadmap and delivery plan
• Identify and create awareness of material dependencies; escalate to responsible owners and the Executive to ensure managed and potential impacts minimized
• Design and maintain the portfolio prioritisation framework, including sequencing logic, decision criteria and trade-off mechanisms to support executive investment decisions
• Lead and define portfolio level risk and issue management frameworks, ensuring consistency, transparency and early escalation of material risks.
• Provide independent challenge and advice on risk exposure, control effectiveness and mitigation strategies to senior leaders and governance forums.
• Define and continuously enhance governance tools, templates and artefacts to ensure consistency, usability and alignment with enterprise governance and reporting requirements

Qualifications

• A postgraduate degree level qualification in a relevant discipline with subsequent relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
• Relevant Project Management or Governance qualifications.

About Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne’s strategy draws upon our understanding of future challenges. We choose to build Swinburne as the prototype of a new and different university – one that is truly of Technology, of Innovation and of Entrepreneurship. We are committed to a differentiated university proposition in education and research.

Our Ad Astra strategy is the cornerstone of Swinburne’s bold ambition to lead globally in technology-driven education and research. This strategy positions us to create transformative solutions, empower learners, and partner with industry to thrive in an ever-changing world.

What We Offer You!

Work your way with flexible working arrangements, including hybrid options and generous parental leave to support a balanced lifestyle.

Exclusive staff discounts, including discounted Medibank health insurance, 50% off Swinburne courses and other partner offers.

Swinburne offers 17% super and salary packaging options, including car leasing and extra super contributions.

Want to learn more? Head over to our benefits page!

To Apply

Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria and your suitability for this position.

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Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children Check.

If you are experiencing technical difficulties with your application, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@swin.edu.au.

Applications Close: Thursday 09th July at 11.30 pm

Swinburne offers flexible working options contained in our leave and parenting/carer policies to support work-life balance.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Swinburne has become a world-class university, driving social and economic impacts through science, technology, and innovation. As a dual-sector university, our vision is for people and technology working together to build a better world.

Central to our vision is our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer focused on attracting, retaining, and developing great talent. We work to remove barriers related to gender identity, culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and age.

We strongly encourage applicants from diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Our Moondani Toombadool Centre leads our Indigenous education and culture at Swinburne, guided by community wisdom and leadership.

We support applicants with disabilities, and reasonable adjustments can be requested at any stage of the recruitment process.

For reasonable adjustment requests - including accessible formats of the position description, application form, or other documents, please contact talentacquisition@swin.edu.au or call +61 3 9214 3550. Please note: this phone number is for disability and reasonable adjustment enquiries only. General enquiries about the role can also be emailed to talentacquisition@swin.edu.au.

Victoria’s Commitment to Action: Improving international student employment outcomes.

As a signatory to Victoria’s Commitment to Action, Swinburne seeks to remove barriers to international graduate employment. We welcome and encourage applications from international graduates.

As a Circle Back Initiative Employer, we commit to responding to every applicant.

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