Manager, People & Performance

•    Perm. Full-time opportunity | Hybrid working model, Footscray + WFH
•    Lead a high-performing team driving culture, inclusion, and performance.
•    Senior Officer Salary: $179,000 incl. superannuation!

About Greater Western Water
We’re water… and more.
GWW is a Victorian government owned water corporation that provides an essential service to some of the fastest-growing communities in Australia, stretching from Melbourne’s CBD to Lancefield in the north and Bacchus Marsh in the west. Click here to learn more

Benefits
•    We embrace flexibility and connection with a balance of on-site and WFH 
•    Free onsite parking (subject to availability)
•    Gender neutral, 16-week parental leave 
•    Monthly work life balance day off to treat yourself (if full-time)
•    Free income protection and salary continuance insurance
•    Access to corporate health insurance deals with major providers
•    Wellbeing, prayer, and sensory rooms in the Footscray and Sunbury office

The opportunity 
As the Manager, People and Performance, you will lead a high-impact team of Consultants and Employee Communication Specialists, delivering enterprise-wide solutions that strengthen leadership capability, performance, culture, employee experience, and inclusion.
Reporting to the Head of Organisational Development and Performance, you will design and deliver integrated systems, tools, and behaviours that enable leaders and teams to excel. You’ll ensure initiatives are not only strategically sound but clearly communicated, understood, and adopted across the organisation.
Working closely with executives, senior leaders, and cross-functional teams, you will embed Greater Performance — a unified approach linking accountability, capability, and culture to achieve sustainable results. 
With enterprise reach, this role offers the opportunity to shape organisational strategy, drive cultural transformation, and ensure the employee experience is inclusive, high-performing, and aligned to business priorities.

Responsibilities
•    Lead and develop a high-performing team delivering outcomes across performance, culture, engagement, inclusion, and leadership.
•    Design and embed enterprise solutions for performance, talent, succession, and capability uplift.
•    Partner with senior leaders to drive culture change and enhance employee experience.
•    Oversee enterprise engagement and culture diagnostics, translating insights into targeted actions.
•    Ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion principles are integrated into all people systems and practices.

Skills & Experience
•    Proven leadership experience in organisational development, culture, or performance at an enterprise level.
•    Advanced expertise in designing, implementing, and evaluating performance, talent, and leadership frameworks that deliver measurable outcomes.
•    Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills with senior leaders.
•    Demonstrated success in leading, developing, and inspiring high-performing teams to achieve strategic objectives.
•    Experience in a water, utility or public sector (highly desirable)
•    Tertiary qualification in organisational psychology or organisation development (highly desirable)

See yourself thrive
Our vision for GWW is Thriving People and Country. We aim to be as diverse as the communities we serve and are deeply committed to building a workplace where everybody thrives. We’re supportive, inclusive, and friendly, and value everyone for who they are and what they can bring.  

We’re seeking applicants across all cultural backgrounds, genders, and abilities, and will make reasonable adjustments as required, so please talk to us about what you need.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which will include but not limited to reference checks, national police checks, and working rights in Australia checks.