Position Overview
- 12-Month Fixed Term, Full-time opportunity
- True hybrid working – work from home and our Mitcham office
- $162,322 per annum inclusive of 12% superannuation
About Us
We’re on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We’re one of Australia’s largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria’s population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.
Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you’ll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.
We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners/Custodians in water and land management.
The Role
As our Senior Change Manager, you will lead and deliver change, adoption and organisational readiness activities across technology-enabled initiatives within Service Futures. You will be responsible for ensuring enterprise platforms, processes and new ways of working are successfully implemented, adopted and embedded to deliver sustained business value.
Initial focus on Enterprise Data Analytics project: Initially, this role will offer change management support to the EDA project to ensure that the platform is adopted and embedded into core business workflows. This role will work in partnership with the vendor change management resource. This includes translating platform capability into clear, role-based business value, driving adoption and behavioural change, uplifting data literacy, and enabling sustainable self-service across remaining business groups.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Business ownership, readiness and adoption - Lead change management activities across technology and business transformation initiatives, driving business ownership, readiness and adoption to enable successful rollout, sustainable behaviour change, and integration of new processes that deliver lasting business value.
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Business Impact and Operational Readiness - Lead business impact assessments and readiness planning to identify changes across processes, roles, reporting, data, controls and ways of working, ensuring alignment with future-state business needs and team maturity.
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Stakeholder Engagement, Communication and Alignment - Lead and complete business impact assessments to identify changes to processes, roles, reporting, data, controls and ways of working across impacted business areas, and develop and maintain business readiness plans that align with operational realities, future-state business needs and the maturity of impacted teams
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Training, Capability Uplift and Embedded Change - Design and deliver fit-for-purpose change, communication, stakeholder engagement and business readiness plans, while building trusted relationships across business, technology and vendor teams to drive alignment, collaboration and successful adoption.
What we’re Looking for
- Proven experience leading business change management and organisational readiness activities to support successful transformation outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
- Demonstrated capability in conducting business impact assessments, developing change strategies, and creating effective change plans.
- Experience designing and delivering communication plans that drive awareness, engagement, and adoption.
- Proven experience supporting technology-enabled transformation initiatives and embedding sustainable change outcomes.
- Hands-on experience delivering change activities across complex technology projects, including system implementations, process improvements, and digital transformations.
- Strong understanding and practical experience working within Agile, hybrid, and iterative delivery environments.
Why Yarra Valley Water?
We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow – both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.
- $162,322 per annum inclusive of 12% superannuation
- Flexible working arrangements where our people are empowered to design their days with their team. Read our hybrid playbook HERE.
- Free and secure on-site parking with on-site café at our Mitcham office.
- 16 weeks paid parental leave.
- 15 days paid personal leave, which can be used for caring, illness, wellbeing and mental health needs.
- 5 days paid reproductive leave which can be used for experiencing symptoms or undergoing procedures associated with issues such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, PCOS, prostate health, or IVF.
- Request to swap certain public holidays for another day of paid leave.
To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE.
Did you Know?
Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.
How to Apply
Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume.
Closing date: Monday 27th July 2026
This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.
We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds.
If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please call 03 9872 2599 or email [email protected].
If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email [email protected].
Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.
Yarra Valley Water is recognised by Australian Disability Network as a Disability Confident Recruiter employer.
