Job description
At Cerebral Palsy Alliance, we value diversity, foster an inclusive culture and champion equitable opportunities. We strongly encourage applications from candidates with a diverse range of backgrounds and lived experiences including people with disability, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Join us and make a positive difference to the lives of people with disabilities, and to grow your career as part of our alliance of great minds. Our shared values are Passionate, Respectful, Ethical, Curious and Courageous.
About the role
The IT Business Partner for People, Performance & Finance is a key role responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with both the IT department and the business units. The role serves as a strategic interface with the assigned business units for technology advisory, business technology strategy development, solution discovery, service management, risk management, and relationship management.
This is a newly created role, reporting to the Chief Information Officer, partnering with the People & Culture (P&C) and Finance teams to develop and implement technology strategies that help to enable the departments to achieve their strategic business priorities.
The role will be based in Sydney offering hybrid working. The CPA Head Office is based in Allambie Heights.
Duties include:
- Collaborating with the P&C and Finance business units to develop appropriate technology strategies to deliver on business priorities
- Overseeing the successful delivery of IT related projects with the business unit partners e.g. new payroll and learning management system integration
- Leading the management of risks, dependencies and issues associated with project delivery
- Acting as a liaison between the business units and IT, ensuring clear communication and transparency of performance against project deliverables
- Maintaining relationships with applicable vendors and external partners
- Identifying and managing risks associated with IT operations within the business unit
- Assisting the BU leadership to ensure compliance with the relevant IT policies and standards
- Leveraging IT and business unit teams, other stakeholders and third parties as required to deliver on key project deliverables
- Overseeing the delivery of IT services to the business unit in conjunction with the IT Service Manager, including monitoring service levels
About you:
- A Relevant qualification in Information Technology, or an equivalent field or transferrable experience
- Experience delivering IT related projects within a complex organisation
- Experience providing strategic partnership to a broad range of stakeholders and business units
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Highly collaborative with strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
- Proficiency in process improvement, change and project management
- A Strategic mindset with the ability to pivot with the needs of the business
Important information:
At CPA the safety of our staff and clients is of paramount importance. We have assessed this role type as requiring a low level of physical functionality with some inherent requirements. For more information on what that may mean for this role please click here.
Please let us know if you have any pre-existing injuries or illnesses which you are currently seeking, or have sought, medical treatment for which you think may impact your ability to fulfil the inherent requirements of this role. CPA is committed to supporting an inclusive work environment and engaging workers with diverse lived experience. We will happily consider and accommodate reasonable adjustments that may be required to support candidates throughout the recruitment process, and to be successful and safe employees of CPA.
Cerebral Palsy Alliance is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our clients and staff. As such all employees at CPA must be triple vaccinated against COVID-19, prior to their start date. Cerebral Palsy Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cerebral Palsy Alliance upholds, advocates for, and protects the rights, wellbeing and safety of people with a disability. We are a child safe organisation and all workers are responsible to adhere to the NDIS Worker Code of Conduct.
CPA is a smoke free workplace including in, on and around CPA sites and vehicles.
How to Apply
Please click ‘Apply Now‘ to complete your application. If you have any questions about the role or require any reasonable adjustments to enable you to equitably participate in the recruitment process please email [email protected] using the subject line: IT Business Partner enquiry via EthicalJobs.