Strategic Workforce Planning Lead at Yarra Valley Water

Position overview

• Permanent, Full-time opportunity, or 4 days Part-time.
• Organisation with an award-winning culture that values diversity and inclusion
• $162,322 total remuneration package (incl. 12% superannuation)

The Role
We’re looking for a Strategic Workforce Planning Lead to drive the design, build, and enterprise-wide adoption of our Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) framework. This is a high-impact role where you’ll connect our long-term organisational strategy with workforce capability, ensuring our capital programs, pricing submissions, and service delivery plans are backed by clear, data-driven insights.

As the strategic lead, you’ll create enduring value by embedding workforce planning into the DNA of how we operate—informing executive decision-making, strengthening investment confidence, and reducing organisational risk through forward-looking capability and capacity planning.

About us
We’re on a mission to create a brighter future, where you can be a change maker at the actual source. We’re one of Australia’s largest water utilities with over 30% of Victoria’s population relying on us for their essential water and sanitation services.

Our award-winning culture fosters an inclusive, collaborative, and flexible environment that enables our people to thrive. Here, you’ll be inspired and challenged to grow alongside us.

We're committed to reconciliation and supporting the self-determined role for Traditional Owners/Custodians in water and land management.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the design, governance and build of YVW’s enterprise SWP framework.
• Embed workforce planning into critical business cycles—Pricing Submissions, Strategy Days, and capital investment planning.
• Develop and standardise SWP tools, templates, and methodologies to ensure enterprise-wide consistency.
• Build a job architecture aligned to remuneration frameworks and system requirements.
• Establish enterprise reporting for Executives and the Board—tracking workforce capacity, capability, and succession risks.
• Integrate SWP into business cases in partnership with Finance, Strategy, and PMO.
• Develop forecasting, scenario modelling, and critical role/succession frameworks.
• Champion workforce planning governance and uplift maturity across the organisation.
• Partner with Learning & Growth to ensure future skills and capability pathways are reflected in plans.
• Mentor divisional managers and embed local ownership of SWP processes into BAU.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience designing and leading Strategic Workforce Planning in large, complex organisations.
• Deep understanding of capital planning, investment cycles, and regulatory planning frameworks.
• Strong skills in enterprise reporting, analytics, and forecasting—with the ability to turn insights into action.
• Ability to influence and engage at Executive and Board level.
• Knowledge of HRIS systems, job architecture, and workforce analytics tools.
• A strategic mindset, with a hands-on approach to building and embedding sustainable frameworks.

To view the full position description, click HERE.

 Why Yarra Valley Water?
We celebrate and encourage new thinking at every level. Creating opportunities for you to grow – both professionally, and personally. When you flourish, we all do.

• $162,322 TRP per annum inclusive of 12% superannuation.
• Flexible working arrangements where our people are empowered to design their days with their team. Read our hybrid playbook HERE.
• Free and secure on-site parking with on-site café at our Mitcham office.
• 14 weeks paid leave parental leave.
• 15 days paid personal leave, which can be used for caring, wellbeing, mental health, menstrual or menopause.
• Request to swap certain public holidays for another day of paid leave.

To read more about our benefits and culture, read our employee handbook HERE.

Did you know?
Research shows that men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and other marginalised people tend to only apply when they meet all of them. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily tick every box, please apply or get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

How to apply
Applications should include a supporting Cover Letter and Resume. 
Closing date: Friday, 3^rd October 2025
This position is available for Yarra Valley Water employees and external applicants.

We welcome applications from everyone, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and people of all cultural backgrounds. If you need this information in an accessible format or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please call 03 9872 2542 or email [email protected]. If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss the recruitment process, please contact us via email [email protected].

Successful applicants must be eligible to work in Australia and agree to provide information for pre-employment checks, if required for the position. This may also include a Police Check or AusCheck, where an offer will be subject to a satisfactory outcome of these checks.