About the Department

The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives. It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society.

About the Division

IMTD is responsible for supporting one of the largest technology networks in Victoria and leading the department's technology, digital capability, business systems and digital transformation. This network consists of Schools, Corporate and Early Childhood Education (ECE) including a school user base of more than 1500 Government schools, 50,000 teachers and 650,000 students.

IMTD provides innovation and leadership in the transformation and management of the Department's digital capability through the implementation of solutions on the department's cloud environment (IaaS), enterprise cloud platforms (PaaS) and software (SaaS), using agile practices with a focus on user experience, security, and integration.

About the Branch

The purpose of the Business Services Branch is to deliver professional and quality services that supports IMTD to achieve its goals.

The key services provided to meet this objective are:

• Providing reporting to enable informed decision making
• Optimising outcomes through contract management processes
• Supporting IMTD to meet their compliance and assurance obligations
• Supporting people to transition to new ways of working
• Contribute to the planning, sourcing and developing required capabilities

About the Role

Commencement date - 1 July 2026. 

Reporting to the Director, Business Services Branch, the Manager, Business Management Services is accountable for delivering strategic financial management, business planning, audit and compliance oversight, and business performance reporting to support IMTD Executive leadership team in the delivery of technology services to the department, schools and early learning and childcare centres.

About you

This position is accountable for a diverse range of services and to meet the needs of division, you will bring a customer centric and service excellence mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.  You have:

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to negotiate and influence outcomes, with a customer centric mindset
• Strong people leadership capability and in developing a culture of engagement, empowerment, continuous improvement and quality outcomes
• Significant experience in the development of briefs, papers etc for an executive audience
• Significant experience in financial management within information technology
• Experience in the development of policy, ideally within information technology
• Experience in business planning and alignment to organisational strategies and priorities
• Experience in audit, ideally within information technology
• Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline is highly desirable.

How to apply

Please submit a resume and cover letter (no longer than 2 pages) outlining your how your skills, experience and qualifications align to the required of the position outlined in the Role Statement.

Further Information

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.

The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.

For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Donna Kelly - Director, Business Services Branch via email donna.kelly2@education.vic.gov.au.

Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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Applications close 11:59pm on Wednesday 25th March 2026.