Senior Manager, Digital Change and Adoption

At Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools Ltd (MACS) we envision every student to be inspired and enabled to flourish and enrich the world. MACS is the largest Catholic school system in Australia. We own, govern and operate approximately 300 Catholic schools, employ over 17,000 staff and serve more than 118,000 students and their families in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.

It is an exciting time to join MACS, where we are transforming to bring to life our strategic plan - MACS 2030: Forming Lives to Enrich the World that will help all MACS staff come together to make the most of what a Catholic education has to offer so that we have the greatest and most distinctive impact in our classrooms, staffrooms and schools communities. More details on the MACS strategy can be found here.

WHY WORK FOR US?

• Professional development opportunities with a defined personalised annual budget
• Access to flexible working arrangements, which include working from home
• You will work in a tight-knit, supportive team to ensure you succeed in your role
• Employee Assistant Program (EAP) supported by Mental Health First Aiders in the workplace, providing a safe and caring environment to our staff and students

The MACS Code of Conduct (the Code) embodies our collective commitment to fostering a positive and supportive work environment that prioritises the health, safety and wellbeing of everyone, inspired by our Catholic faith. We ask that all staff read and understand the Code and model the behaviours that are expected of us.

YOUR ROLE

The Senior Manager, Digital Change and Adoption is accountable for establishing, leading, and embedding a high-performing enterprise change management practice to support digital projects and programs across MACS, including direct engagement with schools. The role provides strategic leadership, coaching, and assurance across all digital change initiatives, ensuring strong adoption, readiness, and sustainable outcomes for schools, business areas, and corporate functions.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Design, implement, and embed an enterprise change management framework that supports digital transformation across schools and MACS offices with the aim of building a mature and sustainable Change Management Practice with change capability aligned to organisational strategy and ways of working.
• Lead, coach, and develop change Managers, change management leads and training resources supporting digital initiatives impacting schools and business units.
• Foster a collaborative community of practice that understands and responds to the unique operational and cultural context needs of school environments.
• Provide leadership and assurance through appropriate change governance forums, ensuring consistent, high‑quality change management across digital projects and programs. Spear head change governance forums where applicable and support the change team through required change governance processes to provide strategic oversight and assurance of change management activities across digital projects and programs.
• Ensure change approaches are appropriate, pragmatic proportionate, and tailored to school and MACS office contexts.
• Partner closely with schools, principals, and business leaders to understand readiness, impacts, and adoption risks, co‑designing effective change approaches. Stakeholder partnership and collaboration; working closely with schools to understand their operational context, readiness, and change impacts, and partnering with senior leaders, principals, and business stakeholders to co-design effective change approaches and adoption.

ABOUT YOU

• Extensive experience leading enterprise-wide change in complex digital environments with significant frontline or end-user impact transformations (e.g. schools or large distributed workforces).
• Demonstrated success establishing and embedding an enterprise change management framework and practice within an enterprise/complex organisation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, uplift and guide senior change and training professionals to managers and training managers to deliver consistent, high-quality wholistic outcomes
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior executives, principals, and diverse business groups.
• Demonstrated capability tailoring change approaches to diverse audiences with varying levels of change maturity.
• Demonstrated experience delivering change as part of end‑to‑end transformation program

HOW TO APPLY

Please refer to the position description for further details about the role and the Key Selection Criteria.

Click APPLY to submit your application. If you have any queries about this role, they can be directed to our Talent Acquisition team by email ***email_hidden***

1. An up to-date Resume and

2. A cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria, limited to two pages

Note: MACS is committed to the safety, wellbeing and protection of all children in our care. The successful candidate must hold or acquire and maintain a Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) and/or Working with Children Check and must be willing to obtain and maintain a National Criminal History Check.

Candidates must hold full Australian Working Rights and provide evidence of this.

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APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 4.00pm Wednesday, 10 June 2026