Lead Digital Business Partner

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Benefits offered by this job

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Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Inner West Council in Sydney seeks a Lead Digital Business Partner to guide a team delivering strategic digital solutions and drive organisation-wide digital transformation. You will build strong partnerships with senior stakeholders, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable business value and fostering innovation.

The role focuses on leadership, planning and change management for major digital initiatives, with a people-first approach and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Business, IT or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Proven led digital strategy and transformation at organisational level with strong customer relationships.
• Experience mentoring teams and delivering technology initiatives with emerging tech.
• Strong stakeholder engagement to influence senior leaders and build trusted partnerships.
• Business analysis skills with process mapping and requirements documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Digital Business Partners to deliver strategic digital solutions.
• Build partnerships with senior stakeholders and drive digital transformation.
• Ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value.
• Provide direction, mentorship, and promote innovation within the team.
• Plan and manage change for major transformation initiatives.

Skills

Digital strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Team mentoring

Change management

Communication

Education

Business/IT degree or equivalent

Job description

Inner West Council (IWC) is among Sydney’s larger local metropolitan local government councils looking after a community of 201,000 people living in some of the inner city’s most vibrant, creative, liveable, and diverse suburbs. As we continue to deliver quality, innovative, and inclusive programs and services, we invite you to join in on our journey towards becoming the best council for our community.

The community is at the heart of IWC, and our values ofIntegrity,Respect,Innovation,CompassionandCollaborationare at the centre of everything that we do.

We offer flexible career life balance with hours that allow you to relax and recharge.We offer a variety of flexible work arrangement options(e.g. flexible hours and working from home) where appropriate giving you even greater quality of work life balance.

Permanent employees benefit from our great valuegym membership from $18.65/week giving access to a vast network of gyms in Sydney.

The Lead Digital Business Partner leads a team of Digital Business Partners (DBPs) to deliver strategic digital solutions that align with Council’s corporate objectives. The role focuses on building strong partnerships with senior stakeholders, driving digital transformation across the organisation, and ensuring that technology investments deliver measurable business value. It provides direction and mentorship to the DBP team, promotes innovation, and ensures effective planning and change management for major transformation projects.

Please read the Position Description to familiarise yourself with all the requirements and conditions of the role.

$142,462.32 - $155,168.00 p.a. + 12% Superannuation

Some of the required skills, experience and qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Business, Information Technology or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
• Proven experience in leading digital strategy and transformation initiatives at an organisational level with building and maintaining strong customer relationships, and owning the process for effective business engagement
• Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor and develop a high-performing team with project management and delivery of technology or digital initiatives with extensive understanding of digital tools, emerging technologies and their application for business improvement and commitment to diversity, equal employment opportunity, work health and safety, and ethical practices
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence senior leaders and build trusted partnerships with analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• High-level business analysis skills, including requirements gathering and documentation with proficiency in process mapping and analysis techniques and use of relevant tools

Enquiries

Darren Morris, Chief Digital Information Officer on 9392 5730

Closing Date

Sunday 11 October 2026, 11:30PM

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We recommend you read the Position Description for the role to make sure your application addresses the requirements of the position. Council is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all applicants. Please advise us within the application if you need support, reasonable adjustments to participate successfully in the recruitment process.

Eligibility for employment/Pre employment Checks Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks as required for the position. This may include police records checks, certified copies of relevant qualifications, Driver’s Licence and proof of work rights in Australia (please refer to the Position Description for the specific qualifications/requirements for the role). Copies of any sighted documents will be kept by IWC for its records as proof of verification.

Inner West Council is proud to be an inclusive and equitable employer

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to reflecting the diversity of our community. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, young people, and mature age workers.

This commitment to diversity and inclusion is one of the many reasons we were named the 2023 AR Bluett Award Winner as the most progressive council in NSW. We’re also proud recipients of the 2023 Australian Business Awards Employer of Choice and the 2025 NSW Local Government Excellence Award for Organisational Diversity and Inclusion.

Inner West Council is among Sydney’s larger local government agencies, looking after a vibrant community of 201,000 people living in some of the inner city’s most vibrant, creative, liveable and diverse suburbs. As we continue to deliver quality, innovative and inclusive programs and services, we invite you to join us on our journey towards becoming the best council for our community. We are committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity, WHS, sustainability, continuous improvement and business excellence. The community is at the heart of the organisation, and Council’s values of integrity, respect, innovation, compassion and collaboration guide everything we do. As an organisation committed to child safety, we also recognise the importance of the wellbeing of all children and young people, and the marvelous value they bring to the inner-west community, and it is essential they are safe while they access services and enjoy Council facilities. All Council employees share the responsibility to keep them safe while they access services and enjoy council facilities. Council expects commitment to these values and responsibilities from all its employees as they serve the community and make Inner West a great place to be.

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• Outline your experience, with examples, partnering with business areas to develop digital roadmaps and/or lead digital transformation initiatives. Please describe your role and the outcomes achieved. *
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