Program Director

  • Australia
  • Melbourne
  • Permanent
  • ASAP Start | Melbourne/WFH hybrid

We’re partnering with a large, well-established education organisation embarking on a major enterprise-wide transformation to modernise its student management ecosystem. This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly visible strategic program that will shape the future of student services and operational excellence across the organisation.

As the Senior Program Director, you’ll lead the development and delivery of a roadmap to implement a single Student Management System while transforming the broader student lifecycle ecosystem.

Working closely with executive leadership, operational teams, ICT, and external delivery partners, you’ll provide strategic direction across a complex program involving multiple business units, competing priorities and significant organisational change.

This is a highly influential role where your ability to build executive support, navigate ambiguity and drive alignment will be critical to success.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and drive the strategic roadmap for a future single Student Management System.
  • Lead a complex enterprise transformation spanning technology, business processes and organisational change.
  • Partner with executive stakeholders to establish alignment and secure organisational buy-in.
  • Shape the broader student lifecycle architecture, including scheduling, timetabling and critical system integrations.
  • Oversee program delivery across multiple workstreams, vendors and implementation partners.
  • Lead governance, executive reporting and program performance.
  • Facilitate complex stakeholder discussions and resolve competing priorities across the organisation.
  • Ensure successful adoption through effective change management and business engagement.

Skills and experience

  • Extensive experience leading enterprise-wide transformation programs.
  • A strong background delivering complex technology implementations alongside business process redesign and organisational change.
  • Exceptional executive stakeholder management and influencing skills.
  • Outstanding communication, facilitation and presentation capabilities.
  • Experience developing strategic roadmaps and translating vision into executable programs.
  • The ability to build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.
  • Strong governance, reporting and program leadership experience.
  • A collaborative leadership style with the ability to work through ambiguity and complexity.
  • Experience delivering large ERP, Student Management System, CRM or enterprise platform implementations within education environments will be highly regarded.

If you’re an experienced transformation leader looking to deliver meaningful organisational change at enterprise scale, we’d love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion, please contact josh.dmonte@talentinternational.com

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