General Manager, Data and Insights

UnitingCare Queensland; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Salary packaging benefits

Employee discounts and wellbeing

Job summary

UnitingCare Queensland is recruiting a General Manager, Data and Insights to establish and mature the organisation's data capability. You will build governance, platforms and trusted data products to underpin reporting, analytics and AI initiatives, unlocking data as a strategic asset.

You will partner with executives to shape data priorities, enable federated reporting and drive data literacy, governance and secure practices across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in organisation-wide data strategy and governance.
• Proven ability to build scalable, governed data capability across federated orgs.
• Strong track record translating business needs into clear data requirements.
• Experience improving data quality, lineage, security and auditability.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction and operating rhythm for organisation-wide data capability.
• Lead end-to-end strategy, investment and delivery of data platforms and governed data products.
• Establish a whole-of-organisation data operating model for consistency and reuse.
• Partner with executives to shape data priorities and federated reporting.
• Provide governance and access models to accelerate AI adoption.

Skills

Data strategy

Data governance

Data platforms

Data products

Stakeholder partnering

Job description

Make a meaningful difference with us

We’re looking for someone who wants to make the world a little better through small moments that leave big impacts.

This is an opportunity to build something truly impactful. As General Manager, Data and Insights, you will establish and mature UnitingCare's organisation-wide data capability, creating the governance, platforms and trusted data products that will underpin every major reporting, analytics and AI initiative across the organisation. This role will unlock the value of data as a strategic asset, enabling AI adoption, richer insights and better decisions that improve outcomes for the hundreds of thousands of people who rely on our services each year.

Your part in our UnitingCare team

• Set the strategic direction and operating rhythm for UnitingCare Queensland’s organisation-wide data capability, establishing the trusted, governed and auditable foundations required for reporting, analytics and AI-enabled decision-making.
• Lead the end-to-end strategy, investment and delivery of organisation-wide data platforms, data hubs and governed data products, ensuring data is high-quality, secure, reusable and able to generate organisational value.
• Establish a whole-of-organisation data operating model that reduces duplication, strengthens accountability and enables consistent, scalable data practices across projects, domains and platforms.
• Partner with executives, senior leaders and business teams to shape data priorities, enable federated reporting and analytics, and build the data literacy required to turn information into insight and action.
• Provide the governance, access models and control environment required to accelerate safe, scalable and sustainable adoption of AI and advanced analytics across UnitingCare.

What makes a difference for us

• Senior leadership experience in organisation-wide data strategy, data platforms, data governance, data products or related data transformation environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted, scalable and governed data capability across complex, federated organisations.
• Strong stakeholder partnering and influencing capability, with the credibility to translate business needs into clear data requirements, standards and reusable outcomes.
• Experience improving data quality, consistency, lineage, security, privacy and auditability across core systems and reporting environments.
• A change leadership mindset, with the ability to reduce fragmentation and shift teams toward common standards, reusable patterns and sustainable ways of working.
• Confidence to satisfy the relevant probity checks required by legislation or policy, including Nationally Coordinated Police Check, Right to Work in Australia and Insolvency Check. Additional checks may apply depending on final role requirements.

What makes a difference for you

The opportunity to be part of the second-largest Queensland employer who has been leading by example for more than 100 years. Joining our team, you’ll be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. We’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital.

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
• Access to salary packaging, meal and entertainment benefits - up to $15,900 per year tax free as well as up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for meal and entertainment benefits. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months’ service, in addition to the government scheme
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

• Provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children
• Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
• Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.

What makes a difference for you

The opportunity to be part of the second-largest Queensland employer who has been leading by example for more than 100 years. Joining our team, you’ll be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. We’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital.

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
• Access to salary packaging, meal and entertainment benefits - up to $15,900 per year tax free as well as up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for meal and entertainment benefits. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the SalaryPackagingExplained link
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months’ service, in addition to the government scheme
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
• Career development opportunitiesto challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

• provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children
• implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
• abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple– everybody iswelcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values.We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people, adults and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.