- Help shape Unitywater's future through strategy, planning and innovation.
- Partner with leaders across the business to drive strategic outcomes.
- Enjoy flexible working and career development opportunities
About the role:
As our Corporate Strategy Advisor, you'll play a key role in helping Unitywater turn long-term ambition into practical action. Working across the organisation, you'll help ensure our strategic priorities are clear, aligned and delivering meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities and people.
You'll coordinate and continuously improve our strategic planning framework, support business units to develop plans that connect to our broader goals, and keep a close eye on emerging trends that could shape our future direction.
This is a highly collaborative role that combines strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, analysis and communication, offering the opportunity to influence decisions at all levels of the business while helping drive innovation and strategic outcomes.
This role can be based at our Maroochydore or Mango Hill Head Office
About the Team:
The Strategic Engagement team plays an important role in shaping Unitywater's future by connecting strategy, innovation and business planning across the organisation. We work closely with leaders and teams to align priorities, support informed decision-making and drive continuous improvement. As a collaborative and forward-thinking team, we're focused on helping Unitywater achieve its long-term ambitions while delivering positive outcomes for our customers, communities and people.
About you:
Our One Unitywater behaviours - Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – define how we work together at Unitywater. To contribute to this, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role:
- A bachelor's degree in Strategy, Business, Management, Economics or a related discipline.
- Experience developing, coordinating or supporting corporate strategy, business planning, transformation or organisational performance initiatives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify emerging trends, connect complex information and translate insights into practical actions.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to build relationships and influence outcomes across a diverse range of teams and leadership groups.
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare reports, facilitate workshops and communicate complex ideas clearly.
- Experience working within a large, customer-focused, utility, regulated or similarly complex organisation.
- A proactive and adaptable approach, with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and drive outcomes while fostering innovation and continuous improvement.
Working at Unitywater:
- Flexibility: We value flexibility and support work-life balance with hybrid and flexible working, purchased annual leave and access to floating public holidays.
- Wellbeing: We offer several initiatives to support your wellbeing, such as discounted private health insurance, salary packaging, employee assistance program, and access to retailer discounts and benefits.
- Learning and Development: We offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as: Walk on Country experience, study assistance, access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
- Diversity: We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage, Disability and Accessibility.
About us:
Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. We operate on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Country, proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. We are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
We think a pretty good job starts here.
How to apply:
Apply online following the links, and make sure to upload your cover letter and up-to-date CV.
We strive to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve and encourage all suitable applicants to apply for this role. Please feel free to share your pronouns and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
If you’re successful we will need you to undergo a few checks…. We know they might not be the fun part, but you will need to confirm your right to work in Australia and complete relevant pre-employment checks, including verification of criminal history, drivers licence and driving history, alcohol and other drug screening.
Applications close: Thursday 9th July 2026
For further information please contact the Talent Acquisition team at careers@unitywater.com
If you would like to speak to a team member about our commitment to diversity and inclusion, please contact our Inclusion Specialist emma.guest@unitywater.com
Unitywater respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways in which we live, work and operate, the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal peoples. We honour their enduring connection to these places and their deep cultural, spiritual and environmental knowledge and stewardship over the waterways that sustain us all. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, who hold the wisdom, traditions and stories of their people.
