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About the Role
This role champions continuous improvement by enhancing procurement frameworks, streamlining tendering and contract management processes, and embedding consistent, best-practice approaches across the Department. It promotes strong governance and risk management practices while supporting the ongoing maintenance of procurement standards and accreditation to deliver sustainable, high-quality outcomes. A key focus is developing procurement capability by leading and mentoring a high-performing team, fostering collaboration, and ensuring resources are effectively allocated to meet evolving business priorities and deliver successful procurement outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Enhance procurement frameworks
- Streamline tendering and contract management processes
- Embed consistent, best-practice approaches across the Department
- Promote strong governance and risk management practices
- Support the ongoing maintenance of procurement standards and accreditation
- Develop procurement capability by leading and mentoring a high-performing team
- Foster collaboration
- Ensure resources are effectively allocated to meet evolving business priorities
- Deliver successful procurement outcomes
Requirements
- Demonstrated extensive experience at a senior level in the management of a large complex team
- Knowledge of and commitment to implementing the Department’s Aboriginal Education Policy and upholding the Department’s Partnership Agreement with the NSW AECG and to ensure quality outcomes for Aboriginal people
- Hold a valid clearance to work with Children (Working with Children Check)
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the values of public education
- Successful candidates will be required to provide a current Working with Children Check (WWCC) Clearance number
- Relevant screening checks will be conducted
- Must provide three identity documents
Skills
- Strong background in Goods and Services procurement
- Experience in government goods and services procurement
- Strategic leadership
- Building and developing high-performing teams
- Managing capability and capacity
- Partnering with stakeholders to deliver complex procurement projects
- Managing whole of government contracts
- Strong commercial judgement
- Ability to drive continuous improvement
- Proactive approach to identifying opportunities to strengthen procurement practices
- Improve project delivery
- Produce high-quality procurement documentation
- Produce briefing materials
Location
- Parramatta
Work Type
- Full-time
- Temporary
- Flexible working options
Experience Level
- Public Service senior executive band 1
- Senior level
Education Level
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or equivalent procurement knowledge and experience
Salary/Compensations
- $246,428 - $272,122 per annum
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Work life balance
About the Company
- Our purpose in Education is to equip young people to lead rewarding lives in a complex and fast-changing world.
- We respect and value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as First Peoples of Australia.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people.
- If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above.
- For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.