Summary

As a Functional Change Lead, you will be the critical link between strategic intent and operational execution, fostering cross-functional collaboration to enable the successful implementation of change. New financial year and the opportunity you have been waiting for!

The Organisation

Airservices Australia is a government-owned organisation responsible for the safe and efficient management of 11% of the world’s airspace and provision of aviation rescue fire fighting services at Australia’s busiest airports. 

Our people are our greatest asset with a dynamic and diverse team operating from locations across the country - from bustling cities to regional and remote locations, including an island. This team keep Australia’s aviation industry safe every day of the year, both in the air and on the ground. 

We connect people with their world safely – linking family and friends, generating economic activity, creating jobs, and facilitating trade and tourism. 

Airservices is committed to fostering a culture that is diverse, inclusive, and respectful.  We encourage motivated individuals who love what they do, value a service first mindset and embrace a challenge to explore a career with Airservices. In return you will be a valued team member, be offered flexibility and experience a meaningful career in an exciting, ever-evolving aviation industry. 

Our Leaders 

Leaders at Airservices demonstrate our Leadership Standard in the way they Know, Focus and Value our people every day. Our leaders role model our values of Safe always, Service first, Love what we do, Work as one, Own it to connect people with their world safely.  

An Airservices leader leads inclusively, thinks strategically, collaborates and communicates with impact to deliver outcomes that support our culture of trust, care and accountability. 

The Role & The Team 

The Functional Change Lead plays a pivotal role in driving change initiatives within a centralised change operating model, ensuring functional areas effectively adapt to new processes, technologies, and organisational shifts. 

Drawing on your experience in planning and leading change programs, you will focus on the people side of change—identifying and mitigating impacts through targeted engagement and change activities. Partnering with Enterprise Change and business leaders within CTEO, you will design and deliver change approaches for complex initiatives, aligning them with the functional strategic plan and business objectives. 

You will be responsible for prioritising and planning change support across transformation initiatives, business change, and sustainment programs to ensure benefits are realised and outcomes embedded. 

With a proven ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a dynamic environment, you will contribute to building change capability across teams and advancing the organisation’s overall change maturity. Additionally, you will help foster a culture of continuous improvement to enhance productivity and responsiveness to stakeholder needs.

 Please see the link below to view the full Position Description: 

 Position Description - Functional Change Lead_CTEO-COO_FINAL.pdf

The Person 

• 10+ years’ experience in managing change including at the Portfolio level across large geographically displersed organisation.  

• Tertiary qualification in business, HR, or organisational change or relevant experience. 

• You are comfortable with and have demonstratable experience in driving and executing change in a technical environment and can manage and support change for multiple initiatives simultaneously. 

• Proven experience leading people-focused change in large or complex organisations. 

• Strong strategic and operational change capability, including planning and delivery. 

• Skilled in stakeholder engagement and influencing across all levels. 

• Advanced communication skills—verbal, written, facilitation and negotiation. 

• Advanced Planning and Project management capability.  

• Experience with the PROSCI, lean and agile change methodology (preferred).  

• Experience working within MSP (Managing Successful Programs) framework (preferred).  

• A genuine passion for driving the best for our people and our organisation. 

 Airservices Australia is a diverse and inclusive employer that recognises the benefits of having a workforce that reflects the communities in which we work. We encourage applications from diverse groups including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people. 

How to Apply