Strategic Change & Implementation Lead

Office for Early Childhood Development; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Office for Early Childhood Development in Adelaide is seeking a Change Implementation Manager to lead planning, design, and coordination of change initiatives across South Australia’s early childhood reform program. You will steer complex projects, manage policy links to local rollout, and drive evidence-based risk management and stakeholder engagement to ensure system-wide readiness.

The role focuses on delivering strategic insights, guiding local teams, and coordinating government policy

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex projects and programs at system level.
• Ability to coordinate government policy directions.
• Strong written and verbal communication for reports and briefings.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, implementation and monitoring of change management strategies for statewide local teams in early childhood reform.
• Initiate, develop and deliver complex projects and policies linking policy decisions to local implementation.
• Design feedback and risk management mechanisms informed by evidence and community context for system-wide reform.
• Provide strategic engagement with internal and external stakeholders to plan readiness and reform delivery.

Skills

Complex project delivery

Policy coordination

Advanced analysis

Job description

Office for Early Childhood Development in Adelaide is seeking a Change Implementation Manager to lead planning, design, and coordination of change initiatives across South Australia’s early childhood reform program. You will steer complex projects, manage policy links to local rollout, and drive evidence-based risk management and stakeholder engagement to ensure system-wide readiness.

The role focuses on delivering strategic insights, guiding local teams, and coordinating government policy