Package: $84,511 - $93,284 + 12% Super (Grade 9 of the SMRC Salary System 2025-2026)
Position Description: Change Management Specialist
Applications open: 12:01am 1st April, 2026
Applications close: 11:59pm Sunday, 26th April 2026.
About The Region: The Snowy Monaro region is a unique and culturally diverse region of south-east NSW. From our history of the Snowy Hydro Scheme, our proud agricultural industry and popular ski resorts, we are a region that has a lot to offer. With fantastic lifestyle choices, whether you are an adventure seeker or prefer the finer things in life, we really can offer it all, and all within close proximity to our nation’s capital Canberra. The Snowy Mountains region is packed with year-round experiences with so much more than snow sports and alpine walks. Glorious wildflowers blanket the alpine landscape of Kosciuszko National Park during summer, and if you love adventure sports there's rock climbing, kayaking, caving, fishing, horse riding, mountain biking, and 4WD touring activities to get your heart racing. Explore the famous Snowy River and go skiing or snowboarding on the slopes of Perisher and Thredbo - or camp under the stars at some of the most picturesque campgrounds in NSW. You'll never forget the rugged alpine scenery of Australia's largest national park. Snowy Monaro Regional Council employs over 380 staff from all walks of life and working with us will give you the opportunity to enjoy our beautiful surrounds, progress your career and make a difference in our local community.
About the Role:
- Change Management Planning: Define, develop and implement comprehensive change management plans, including up-front change analysis and assessments, strategies for risk management, communication, and stakeholder engagement.
- Stakeholder Relationship Management: Manage relationships and expectations, ensuring that stakeholders are kept informed in a timely, transparent, and effective manner.
- Resistance Management: Identify and manage resistance to change by developing strategies to minimise disruptions and ensure successful adoption of changes.
- Motivate and Empower: Inspires and energises individuals and teams, encouraging active participation and a shared commitment to achieving successful outcomes during change initiatives.
- Innovation: Drives creative thinking and problem-solving, introducing new approaches and solutions to enhance the effectiveness and success of change initiatives.
- Training and Communication: Develop and deliver training and communication materials to support the successful adoption of changes across the organisation.
- Collaboration with Project Teams: Collaborate with project teams and relevant departments to ensure successful implementation and transition of changes, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives.
- Quality Focus: Embed quality assurance into change activities by actively contributing to service delivery reviews and follow-up actions. Influence & Leadership: Demonstrates strong influence by inspiring confidence, securing stakeholder commitment, and cultivating collaboration to ensure seamless implementation of change initiatives.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of change management activities and adapt strategies as needed for continuous improvement.
- Contribute to a safe workplace: ensure that all changes comply with legislative and organisational requirements and be accountable for own decisions and actions.
- Demonstrates initiative and sound decision-making when working autonomously while also thriving in a team setting.
- Skilled in balancing competing priorities, managing workloads effectively and ensuring high levels of accountability.
- Adept at setting clear objectives, developing action plans, and implementing strategies that align with organizational priorities.
- Experienced in guiding teams and organisations through periods of transition, ensuring change is effectively planned, communicated and implemented.
- Health, Safety, and Compliance: Ensure compliance with organisational and regulatory health, safety, and environmental policies, procedures, and processes.
About You:
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related discipline, or 4 years demonstrated contemporary experience in a similar role; or substantial contemporary experience in a similar role to support contemporary knowledge.
- Proven experience in developing, implementing and leading complex change initiatives in large organisational environments, with demonstrated ability to effectively manage and address resistance to change, ensuring successful adoption across departments.
- Ability to develop and implement detailed change management plans, including risk assessments, contingency plans, and training strategies.
- Proven ability to develop and maintain internal and external stakeholder relationships to achieve outcomes that contribute to the achievement of the organisation’s strategic goals
- Demonstrates strong influence by inspiring confidence, securing stakeholder commitment, and fostering collaboration to ensure seamless implementation of change initiatives.
- Capable of identifying challenges, mitigating risks, and leveraging opportunities to enhance service delivery and organizational effectiveness.
- Class C Drivers Licence
Desirable criteria:
- Experience with change management methodologies such as PMP, PROSCI is highly desirable.
- Experience in Local Government.
How to Apply:
Apply by submitting your cover letter and resume through the Apply link. Please use your cover letter to address the essential and desirable criteria, as outlined in the
Position Description.
Tip: Good applications will demonstrate that you have what is needed to be successful in this role. You can use your cover letter to highlight your skills, abilities and experience, and how they meet the requirements of the job, as well as introducing yourself and explaining why you want to work with us here at Council.
Enquiries
For any enquiries relating the role, please contact our Recruitment Officer
Email:
careers@snowymonaro.nsw.gov.au
Ph: 1300 345 345
At Snowy Monaro Regional Council, we are committed to providing EEO and embracing diversity. We are an inclusive workforce which reflects the unique region, community, and customers we serve. In addition to providing an encouraging and positive environment, Council is a smoke free work environment.
Please advise us if you require any reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the recruitment process or perform the requirements of the role.
