General Manager Corporate Services

Food Standards Australia New Zealand; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking a senior leader to head Corporate Services in Canberra. The General Manager will oversee finance, people, communications, governance, ICT and property to enable sustainable workloads and timely delivery.

The role requires strategic thinking, change leadership and a proven ability to govern risk and assurance while building trust and a high-performing team in a dynamic regulatory environment.

Qualifications

• Senior leader who can run complex corporate functions.
• Experience making decisions under uncertainty.
• Ability to manage budget variation and risk register.

Responsibilities

• Support staff in prioritisation decisions aligned with the agency's strategic direction and communicate decisions clearly.
• Maintain psychosocial safety with sustainable workloads and evidence-based management.
• Sustain strong assurance, risk and governance for effective delivery.
• Model the agency values and lead by example.

Job description

Contract

FSANZ is in a period of deliberate change: tightening priorities, ensuring sustainable workloads and timely delivery, and engaging on innovative ways of doing the agency’s important work. The General Manager, Corporate Services will lead the corporate functions (finance, people, communications, governance, ICT and property) that make this possible, and will be a core member of a united executive team.

You will:

• Support staff in making hard prioritisation calls and ensure decisions align with the agency’s strategic direction and are explained plainly to staff
• Keep people informed, trusted, empowered, and productive through change, with honest communication, sustainable workloads and a proportionate, evidence‑based approach to psychosocial safety that supports the staff without adding to their load
• Sustain strong assurance, risk and governance so the agency is effective in its delivery
• Show our values in how you lead, and hold others to them

You are a senior leader who can run complex corporate functions, make decisions under uncertainty, and bring people with you. You are as comfortable with a budget variation and a risk register as with a difficult conversation, and you see culture as the product of trust, clear priorities, and good management.